Data Governance Leader

Lori Bruegging

Houston, TX • 713-***-****

**********@*******.*** • linkedin.com/in/loribruegging/

Data Governance & Metadata Management Leader

Experienced data governance professional with 10+ years building and operationalizing enterprise metadata, data catalog, and governance programs. Known for driving user onboarding, business glossary creation, ingestion playbooks, role-based security models, and continuous process improvement for business metadata lifecycle management. Deep expertise in Atlan and Collibra, metadata quality controls, UAT facilitation, health checks, and business stakeholder enablement.

Core Competencies

Process Optimization & Governance Operations

Role-Based Access Modeling / CRUD Controls

Atlan & Collibra Governance

Playbook Design & Automation

Business Glossary Development

Stewardship Enablement & Training

UAT Planning & Execution

Data Lineage Documentation

Metadata Quality & Completeness Controls

Data Cataloging & Metadata Management

Experience

Accenture — Houston, TX

Data Governance, Privacy & Compliance Manager (Jan 2025 – Oct 2025)

Led enterprise rollout and adoption of metadata, glossary, and lineage standards, including onboarding business teams into the data catalog and facilitating UAT cycles.

Designed and refined role-based security and CRUD access models for stewards, owners, and administrators.

Operationalized business metadata lifecycle processes—create, update, delete—improving completeness and accuracy by 30%.

Guided stewards and SMEs in defining glossary terms, naming conventions, and ingestion templates.

Developed governance playbooks, ingestion guides, and operational manuals to standardize catalog onboarding.

Implemented metadata accuracy and completeness controls ensuring consistent validation of attributes and lineage.

Conducted daily catalog health checks and operational monitoring for ingestion success and lineage refresh.

Collaborated with Product, IT, and Platform teams to integrate source systems based on roadmap priorities.

Led communications and training efforts to improve Atlan/catalog proficiency across business units.

Enterprise Data Governance Lead (May 2022 – Dec 2024)

Directed data catalog expansion, lineage capture, and glossary standardization initiatives.

Partnered with stewards to document authoritative sources and enrich metadata for 180+ critical data elements.

Improved master data accuracy by 62% and reduced duplicate records by 48% through standardized metadata rules.

Reduced compliance gaps by 37% with ownership matrices, RACI models, and role-based access requirements.

Built governance council routines and playbooks used across 12+ business units, increasing standard adoption by 70%.

Business Analyst Lead (Jul 2020 – Apr 2022)

Mapped business processes into metadata structures and entity relationships for catalog ingestion.

Delivered dashboards tracking catalog KPIs, data quality trends, and metadata completeness.

Led requirement refinement sessions improving definition clarity and catalog usability.

Clarity Insights (Acquired by Accenture) Houston, TX

Management Consultant (Sep 2015 – Jun 2020)

Delivered governance and metadata readiness assessments for cross-industry clients.

Facilitated glossary-definition workshops aligning business terminology and metadata consistency.

Designed workflow improvements and metadata operating models increasing efficiency by 40%.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems

Texas State University – San Marcos

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022) Snowflake Associate Architect (2019)

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