LINDA F. POWELL

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Career Overview

Executive with over 20 years of experience in data management and the financial services industry including being CDO at two federal government agencies. Skilled in every part of the data lifecycle including origination, storage, integration, analytics, and reporting with experience in application and platform development, financial regulation, and a Masters in Quantitative Finance. Built the data management environment for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and stood up the Chief Data Offices at the OFR and CFPB. My focus is on driving efficiencies that increase productivity and leverage data for decision making. Citi 10/18- present

Global Head of Data Governance, End User Computing, and Data Reporting Executive level position responsible for global data policy, data governance, and data reporting. The position also includes global governance of the end user computing program. Responsibilities include managing a remote international team; developing and governing the application of data policies, managing the governance and monitoring compliance to policies for global end user computing systems, developing and executing on management reporting for data. Governance activities are driven through a federated network of data governance officers. Accomplishments:

• Developed and implemented a new data governance policy that aligns with industry best practices and changes the way Citi manages data globally. Created training to support policy implementation;

• Implemented a new methodology for measuring compliance with policies;

• Revamped the foundational data risk documents to better align with industry practices;

• Drove the accurate measurement of inherent and residual risk for data management;

• Drove the reduction and control compliance of End User Computing solutions;

• Collaborated to drive the implementation of data quality metrics. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 12/14 – 10/18 Chief Data Officer

Executive level position responsible for enterprise-wide privacy compliance, data policy/governance, data operations/architecture/engineering, and data science. Responsibilities included managing over 70 staff; data management, business intelligence; data science; and leading inter-agency collaboration.

Accomplishments:

• Reduced the governance process for data intakes from 5 months to less than 10 days;

• Developed master entity data to integrate examinations, research, complaints processing, and nonbank registration information;

• Implemented a Bureau-wide data catalog in 4 months,

• Built a data warehouse, a high-speed analytics grid, and a big data environment (Hadoop & Citus) within three years;

LINDA F. POWELL

95 Horatio Street New York, NY 10014

Phone 703-***-**** Email adjmxd@r.postjobfree.com

• Implemented new pipelines for data processing resulting in significant reductions in production and data quality problems;

• Negotiated interagency data sharing resulting in filling data gaps and material cost savings:

• Significantly reduced costs by repurposing legal technology software for data management;

• Reduced and avoided material costs by shifting the framework for data analytics, and

• Worked with legislative affairs to improve communications about Bureau data. Office of Financial Research, U.S. Treasury Department 11/12 – 11/14 Chief Data Officer (Performed the duties of the Deputy Director for over a year) Executive level position responsible for standing up the OFR’s data governance and operations. Responsibilities included managing the division’s 80+ staff; enterprise data governance; building a data management facility including processes, quality control, and distribution. Worked with other government agencies (domestic and international), financial industry participants, and standards setting organizations.

Accomplishments:

• Reduced data procurement times from over a year to months;

• Increased the data asset inventory from two data assets (obtained over 2 years) to over 40 in less than two years;

• Implemented a Bureau-wide data catalog in 4 months;

• • Reduced the staff turnover ratio significantly;

• Reduced reliance on vendors without increasing staff resulting in significant cost reductions;

• Improved the financial industry infrastructure and government data evolution: played a key role in the implementation and oversight of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) ISO standard including creating the Board of Directors for the global foundation;

• Led foundational work improving data quality and standards in the swaps derivative market;

• Evolved as a leader in the government data management community and expanded my influence outside of the financial sector.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 1992 - 2012 Chief of Economic Data Management &Analysis Research Division 6/98-11/12 Responsible for building and managing the EDMA section which provided analytical, technical, and data management support to the research divisions. Managed the implementation of Postgres (open source software) and Hadoop (open source) as a data management platform to reduce costs and improve processing speed. Implemented the test and production environments and set standards to improve the workflow of data from test to production resulting in fewer production errors and less application down time. Managed the development of interactive reporting and metadata applications used throughout the Federal Reserve System and the public. Developed an enterprise wide data catalog, managed the Board of Governors’ financial and macroeconomic data, and managed the masterdata and metadata for the Federal Reserve System.

Accomplishments:

LINDA F. POWELL

95 Horatio Street New York, NY 10014

Phone 703-***-**** Email adjmxd@r.postjobfree.com

• Increased productivity from providing less than 10 services for a small set of researchers to providing hundreds of analytical services, applications, and data management services to the entire Board as well as the FR System and other FFIEC agencies with a 30% increase in staff.

• Played a leadership role in FR system-wide, interagency, and international analytical, data management, and standards setting groups.

• Built applications to collect, manage, and disseminate data and information within the Board, within the System, and to the public.

• Built integration datasets that linked financial, regulatory, and market data that was a linchpin for rapid analysis during the 2006 financial crisis.

• Built the metadata system for regulatory data used by the Fed, FFIEC agencies, and software vendors.

• Centralized the data management of purchased data improving data quality and efficiency.

• Played a leadership role in the design, development, and deployment of the interagency Central Data Repository for collecting data from banks.

• Started the interagency initiative to improve the infrastructure of the financial system resulting in the international ISO standard for financial entity identification. Senior Financial Systems Analyst, IT Division 10/92 to 6/98 Responsible for monitoring and ensuring the quality of bank data (structure, financial, and examination) databases.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1988 - 1992

Assistant Chief, Statistics Function (Regulatory Reporting) 8/91 to 7/92 Responsible for managing the division's daily operations for regulatory reporting to the Board of Governors, the Open Market Function, and prepared press releases. Senior Audit Analyst 4/88 to 8/91

Performed financial and operational audits. Led several audits that resulted in material cost recovery and operational and management changes in the procurement and benefits functions. Chemical Bank 6/85 to 4/88

Senior Auditor: Responsible for supervising audits performed in the Lending, Securities Operations, Private Banking, Trust/Estate & Investments, and Check Processing Divisions as well audits of BHC subsidiaries. Moved from entry level to the most senior non-executive position in under three years. Managed audit teams as large as 100 people. Education:

George Washington University - Master of Science in Finance 2000 New York University - System Design and Computer Programming Certification 1990 Rutgers University - BA in Economics with minors in Finance & International Economics 1985 Awards:

• Listed as one of the top 10 CDOs by Technology Magazine 2020 LINDA F. POWELL

95 Horatio Street New York, NY 10014

Phone 703-***-**** Email adjmxd@r.postjobfree.com

• Women in Technology Leadership Award nominee for leadership in government 2015, 2016,

& 2017

• Listed as one of 9 public sector CDOs to watch 2016

• WIT Executive Leadership Foundry Training for Corporate Board Directors, 2015

• Interagency Collaboration Award 2015

• Executive Coaching Certification 2013

• Board of Governors Special Achievement Award 2010

• Various FFIEC Awards 2008 through 2010

Publications:

“The Key to Useful Analytics and Business Intelligence: Data Quality”, CIO Applications Magazine (Nov. 2017)

“Best Practices for Managing Data Both Large and Small”, CIO Review Magazine (June 2017)

“Developing Best Practices in Regulatory Data Collection”, OFR View Point Paper (May 2016)

“Legal Entity Identifier: What Else Do You Need to Know”, FEDS (June 2011)

“Creating a Linchpin for Financial Data: Toward a Universal Legal Entity Identifier”, FEDS (Jan. 2011) and Journal of Economics and Business (July 2011)

“Building a Strong Foundation with Dublin Core”, DC-2009 Seoul Proceedings

“Modernizing Financial Data Collection with XBRL”, IASSIST Quarterly (Summer 2007)

“Data Archiving at the U.S. Central Bank”, IASSIST Quarterly (May 2005) Boards and Volunteer Activities:

• Pretty Easy Privacy (pEp) Served on the Advisory Board 11/17 – 10/2018

• FRB Federal Credit Union Board of Directors and ALM chair 1996 – 2004

• White House Data Cabinet – Cabinet of CDOs led by the Chief Data Scientist 2015 & 2016

• Citi Tax Volunteer 2019

• Calvary Women’s Services 12/17 – 10/2018

• Urban Strategies Organization; NYC youth program audit 11/14

• Buguruni Anglican Health Centre in Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2/12 Participated in an onsite mission trip to save the only health center in the poorest section of Dar es Salaam. Conducted an operational audit, set up the accounting system, reengineered the health center’s cash flow operations, and provided accounting advice on tax liabilities. The accounting and operational changes resulted in the health center moving from near bankruptcy to earning a profit within two months of implementing the changes. The changes removed the need for external charitable funding without raising prices for the recipients of the healthcare. Charitable funding was allocated to offering new funding. Also participated in evaluating the funding from the Dioceses for potential health and education social programs in Kibindu Tanzania.

• New Orleans reconstruction mission trip 6/10

• Coach for various youth sports and scout leader

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