Data Governance Quality

Ishaq Syed

Memphis, TN 501-***-**** ***********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishaqsyeday/

Certified data management and governance expert with solid technical background and close to 9+ years of hands-on experience in leading and implementing large-scale Data Quality, Data Governance, and Master Data Management

(MDM) initiatives in a highly regulated medical devices industry and inventory management systems. An organized self- starter and cross-functional leader, passionate about data, Data Quality and Data Governance. KEY SKILLS:

• Data Governance Framework Development

• Data Governance Compliance

• Data Governance Automation

• Data Governance Training Development

• Data Governance Metrics and Reporting

• Data Security Management

• Data Governance Policy Development

• Data Governance Transparency and Accountability

• Data Governance Best Practices

• Data Governance Strategy Development

• Data Governance Tools and Technologies

• Data Quality Management

• Data Cataloging

• Data Policies

• Data Lifecycle Management

• Metadata Management

• Data Visualization

EXPERIENCE:

Metadata Engineer Smith & Nephew, Memphis, TN May 2023 – Present

• Implemented a Data Governance and Cataloging solution for maintaining organization data in Alation Cloud Services platforms improving 70% search time.

• Developed workflows, policies and data quality rules for data stewards to properly manage and govern the critical aspect of organization data.

• Led the Data Quality work stream and collaborated with business and key stakeholders to identify key data elements, key areas of data quality improvement and reporting, gathered requirements, wrote Functional Design Documents and designed the overall solution architecture to deliver a simple, enterprise view of customers and Products data.

• Oversee the Installation, Configuration and upgrade of Alation platform.

• Maintained role base access control through Active Directory groups.

• Integrated Snowflake connectivity in Alation through connectors and created data lineage improving time to understand flow of information and operations dataset go throughs.

• Implemented Column level Data Lineage from Ingestion to Business presentation layer.

• Enhanced data collection efforts by 80%, driving strategic change and improving the efficiency of data services.

• Created reports to display information for easy of understanding assigned Glossary Terms and Policies. Data Management Specialist Smith & Nephew Inc. Memphis, TN Sept 2019 – May 2023

• Implemented data governance solution for maintaining Customer data in Informatica Axon.

• Implemented data lineage, Governance policies and enterprise glossary terms.

• Developed workflows and data quality rules for data stewards to properly manage and govern the critical aspect of customer data. Created a unique customer ID across the organization with different franchises. An estimated 15,000 hours per annum (approximately 1.2m USD) in savings generated by avoiding manual updates and corrections to reports due to Customer data inconsistencies and errors.

• Designed and implemented an end-to-end MDM solution for customer master data and created a holistic 360-degree view of the data across the organization using Informatica Customer 360. Data Quality Analyst Smith & Nephew / Nextech Solutions, Memphis, TN Feb 2019 – Sept 2019

• Technical lead for DCU (Data Collection Utility) tool with over 1000 users, provided training and education when needed and built strong relationships with business stakeholders across all franchises.

• Built and documented data standards and data quality rules for Product master data domains through research and interviews with key business stakeholders and technology partners.

• Led Data Quality Profiling efforts and developed scorecards and dashboards for customer and vendor master data in Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) to monitor global data quality.

• Created database and managed data injection processes using Python program.

• Acted as a gatekeeper for all changes in Production and Development environments and led IT Change Management for enhancements/break/fixes.

• Managed and prioritized the data quality mailbox requests and IT ServiceNow tickets within agreed SLA’s. Software Developer Anzia IT Solutions, Hyd, INDIA Mar 2013 – Mar 2016

• Involved in creating multiple parameterized stored procedures, which were used by application development team in .NET code and in the reports to get the data which improved the application runtime and performance.

• Prepared the complete data mapping and Report Definitions for the inventory management project.

• Involved in designing, developing and deploying reports in MS SQL Server environment using SSRS-2008 and SSIS in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS).

• Used SSRS to develop different kinds of reports like canned, ad-hoc reports.

• Worked on formatting SSRS reports using the Global variables and expressions.

• Demonstrated application to customers and collected feedbacks to improve application performance.

• Managed and prioritized the mailbox requests and IT tickets within agreed SLA’s. EDUCATION:

MASTER’S IN INFORMATION QUALITY, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK Coursework: Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Visualization, Principles of Information Quality (IQ), IQ Tools and Strategy, Information System Analysis, Database Systems, Entity Resolution BACHELOR’S IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, JNTU-Hyderabad Coursework: Engineering Mathematics, Statistics, SQL, Object Oriented Programming using JAVA, Programming in C and C++, Data Structures and Algorithms, Probability and Random Processes CERTIFICATIONS:

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

• CMMI certification in Enterprise Data Management

• Certified Data Steward from Collibra

• Google Analytics for Beginners

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