Data Governance Director, VP of data, Chief Data Officer

DR. GERALD JOHNSON

Philomath, OR ***** / 541-***-****

***************@*****.*** / linkedin.com/in/dr-gary-johnson-61ad

SUMMARY AND PROFILE

Get ROI from Your Data

Chief Data Officer / Data Governance Lead / Data Architecture Lead

Bring your data to the highest levels of performance, governance, quality, predictive and prescriptive ability, and ROI.

If you’re not getting what you should from your data, Dr. Johnson will make it happen.

Areas Of Expertise

Data Quality Evaluation & Measuring Solution Design & Delivery Data Quality Architecture

Requirements Gathering & Analysis C-Level Collaboration Data Architecture

Training, Coaching, and Mentoring Data Governance Data Availability

Problem Analysis and Resolution Data Monitoring Communication

Master Data Management (MDM) Data Cleansing Data Dictionary

Business Process Improvement Data Strategy Data Catalogs

IT and Technology Leadership Data Auditing Data Quality

Principles Based Leadership Business Analysis / Requirements Enterprise Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

C-Suite-Data, Idaho

Data Director / Data Governance Consultant / Data Architecture Consultant

1994 - Present

Data Architecture, Data Governance, and Data Quality consulting. Director level leadership of all data related initiatives and projects. Training and mentoring of customer staff. IT and team leadership for customer solution architecture and development. Solution Architecture, from enterprise level to targeted task level. Strategy development and implementation. Expert witness presentation.

20+ years of solution architecture and development to bring organizations from ungoverned and unmanaged up to predictive and prescriptive levels

Develop new cloud based (Azure) data strategy and architecture for state education department for operational reporting and analysis, MDM and data quality.

Architect and implement AI / data quality customer solutions for internal use (Optimization, Marketing, Availability, etc.) as well as external facing (support, upsell, research, etc.).

Provided data governance and data architecture, training, mentoring, and initial platform (Azure) to luxury (jet, etc.) sales organization (Operational, Warehousing, MDM, AI).

Provided integration framework data architecture along with MDM, AI, and governance plan (Azure, Collibra) for federal IT staffing / HR organization.

Expert witness services related to data and personnel development skills.

Create Data Strategy (including MDM, AI, integration, data governance, data quality, compliance, etc.) for large sovereign wealth fund.

Triage for Wellness company where customer facing interfaces had 10-minute timeout responses (MS Environment).

Strategy, Plan, and leading of new data architecture (Azure), code overhaul, data governance establishment, compliance implementation, and other services for wellness organization (Operational, MDM).

Data Architecture, Data Governance establishment, development and implementation of enterprise recall management system (Azure) for Hewlett-Packard.

Problem remediation services for SAP Hana implementation (Oracle Cloud) for Corteva.

Data Architecture, governance and implementation of fleet dispatching for Boeing sheet metal center (MS environment)

Data Architecture, governance and implementation of insurance related systems – including claims management, eligibility, compliance, etc. for both industry and government (Medicare, Medicaid, SAIF, etc.)

Data Architecture, development lead, governance and compliance functionality lead, and training for emergency services dispatching (police, fire, EMS) system (Oracle environment)

Triage and new data architecture and governance establishment for failing claims management system for small insurance company.

Triage and new data architecture, along with training governance establishment for Altrec (online retailer), when their data response was leading to organizational failure (Azure).

Architecture, design, development, and implementation of pole management system for Weyerhaeuser.

Data Architecture, Design, development, and implementation of tire finishing management system (Oracle) for Goodyear.

SQL Optimization, Development, Training, Mentoring and implementation for over 25 years in a variety of environments

Data Modeling, Architecture, and development for over 25 years, using a wide variety of databases (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, etc.) and database types (SQL, NoSQL, Graph, etc.)

Data Architecture and Development of inter-department reporting and analysis system (Oracle).

Data Architecture, Design and development of media management and distribution system (Oracle) for Hewlett-Packard

Data Architecture, Governance establishment, design, and implementation of Usage system for Hewlett-Packard

Data Architecture, Design, and development of Delivery system (Oracle) for Frito-Lay.

Data Architecture, Design, development and implementation of Retort Cooking system (Microsoft environment) for Del Monte.

Data Architecture, design, and development of school provided lunch system (MS environment).

Architected and developed 4 patentable data quality and MDM products.

OMFM, California

Chief Data Officer / Data Director

2020 - 2023

Led both the internal data governance and compliance upgrade to top levels. Director level leadership of all data related initiatives and projects. Incorporated framework for AI for both internal and external facing solutions. Work involved the design, architecture and technical lead roles to develop new product offerings for UDA data quality / MDM / governance product suite.

Define, architect, and lead the triage and improvement to internal data management, MDM, and governance. Establish data quality monitoring, MDM, AI, auditing, and governance principles, practices, and standards.

Architect, design, and lead implementation of new cloud based (Azure) product offerings. Data Quality / MDM suite with industry leading flexibility and quantitative measurement capabilities.

EDUCATION AND OTHERS

Colorado Technical University, Colorado, 2016

Doctorate of Computer Science

Colorado Technical University, Colorado, 2013

Masters of Computer Science

University of Michigan, Michigan, 1984

Bachelors of Computer Science

Primary Tools, Techniques, And Practices

Cloud Environments – Azure, AWS

Databases – SQL server, Azure SQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, Neo4j, Informix, etc.

ETL / Data Quality – Red point, Talend, Data Flux/Sas, Informatica, SSIS, Synapse, etc.

Practices – Principles Based, Reductive

Governance – Collibra, Alation, SAP, Custom Developed, Talend, Redpoint DM, etc.

Modeling – Erwin, ER Studio, Visio, Toad, etc.

Solution Types – ERP, CRM, ODW, MDM, Warehouse, OLTP, etc.

Warehousing Types – Star, Mart, Fact/Dimension, EDW, ODW, Inmon, Kimball, etc. (Hybrid being the most common)

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