Respected Data Governance Professional with history of creating system architectures that reduce costs and streamline operations. Ready to create design plans from whole cloth or tackle revamps of disparate networks full of outdated systems. Uses emerging and nascent technologies to create stress-free operations both on site and via remote locations and online.
Hi, I’m
DAVID H. JAMES
Sr. Data Governance Pro
Carlisle,PA
Summary
Overview
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Wipro Limited, Marathon Petroleum
Application Architect
07.2022 - 09.2022
Job overview
- Provide technical leadership to design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
- Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
- Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
- Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
- Collaborate with all relevant parties in order to review objectives and constraints of solutions and determine conformance with Enterprise Architecture
- Create new revenue streams within applications as APIs that were leveraged by clients
- Brought knowledge of automation in applications by embracing Agile and Dev-ops principles to reduce manual parts
- Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
- Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with enterprise business goals.
Larsen & Toubro InfoTech, LTI
Senior Data Engineer
02.2022 - 04.2022
Job overview
- Enterprise Solutions Delivery Director
- Primarily responsible for hands-on Java based ETL Development (Talend) with support from onsite and off- shore consultants on daily basis Define and create data model, tables, views, queries etc
- Create and support Web Services that integrate ETL Jobs with internal application
- Design, develop, debug, test and promote Java/ETL code into various environments from DEV through to PROD
- Develop and contribute to Business Requirements Document along with users
- Work with onsite/offshore consultants in writing detailed Functional and Technical Design documents
- Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
- Prepared documentation and analytic reports, delivering summarized results, analysis and conclusions to stakeholders.
Accenture, LLP
Senior Delivery Manager
09.2017 - 09.2019
Job overview
- Manage teams in identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
- Formulate overall project planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting strategies.
- Develop statements of work and/or client proposals
- Develop and manage vendor relationships
- Lead workshops for client education
- Manage resources and budget on client projects
- Serve as escalation point for critical functional issue resolution
- Provide subject matter expertise to aid in decision making related to Data Governance Frameworks
- Lead, mentor, counsel and manage performance metrics of project staff
- Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements.
- Advise clients on industry regulations, standards and leading practices.
- Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
- Ensure client takes advantage of Data Governance best practices.
- Support innovation through creation of new industry leading methods and assets
PHH CORPORATION
Data Governance Architect
03.2016 - 06.2017
Job overview
- Designed and implemented RDM and MDM solutions
- Defined and maintained: match rules, data cleansing rules, hierarchies and affiliations, “golden” records, managed changes to reference and master data
- Defined corporate data architecture and related standards: data integration architecture, data warehouse and business intelligence architecture, taxonomies and namespaces, data modeling tools and standards, and metadata standards and requirements
- Developed and implemented comprehensive data quality program: established data stewardship structure across business units and IT, profile, analyzed and assessed data quality problems, determined root cause of data quality issues, design and execute remediation plans, defined data quality metrics and business rules, continuously measured and monitored data quality, cleaned and corrected systemic data quality defects
- Provided detailed data modeling and design for all data-oriented development projects: designed logical and physical data models and maintained documentation, conducted source to target data mapping, and created and updated data dictionaries
- Defined corporate data architecture and related standards: data integration architecture, data warehouse and business intelligence architecture, taxonomies and namespaces, data modeling tools and standards, and metadata standards and requirements
- Implemented data management controls: developed and monitored conformance to data standards, policies and procedures, managed and resolved data related issues, monitored and ensured regulatory compliance, establish and monitor documentation standards and repositories.
- Established and secured enterprise-wide data analytics structures.
- Created multi-site system architecture plans to reduce redundancy across entire organization.
DEUTSCHE BANK / AFFUSION INC
Senior Consultant — Senior Business Analyst
03.2016 - 06.2017
Job overview
- Created Functional Requirements documentation that aligned to respective Business Requirements and worked with business and technical management to obtain acceptance of such documents
- Performed all data gap analysis between identified data source Data Models, Internal and External
- Transactional, Referential, and Market Data Sources, and all Surveillance Model Data Requirements
- Facilitated on-going Actimize Surveillance models’ data gap review sessions with global Compliance Directors in order to continually mitigate potential implementation risks
- Developed Trade Surveillance Actimize Model fixes due to documented user issues.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
FULTON FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Senior Vice President — Data Governance Director
09.2014 - 07.2015
Job overview
- Managed team of 7 Data Analyst team members
- Defined corporate data architecture and related standards: data integration architecture, data warehouse and business intelligence architecture, taxonomies and namespaces, data modeling tools and standards, and metadata standards and requirements
- Provided regular advice, direction and support to Lead Data Analysts and Data Analysts with hands-on demonstrations of proper techniques and disciplines across all functions
- Delivered Data Governance functions with leading industry practices with a thorough understanding of full systems development lifecycle.
- Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
- Evaluated company documentation to verify alignment with regulatory requirements.
- Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
- Drafted and distributed reports to assist board members with critical business decisions.
BARCLAYS
Compliance
Vice President, Head of Compliance
11.2012 - 09.2014
Job overview
- Data Integrity Standards and Controls Group
- Managed team of 5 resources and 2 of which were located offshore
- Oversaw allocated budget and forecasted budgetary needs on a go-forward basis
- Developed and maintained strategic partnerships with enterprise-wide data initiatives and business units
- Managed compliance-wide data initiative, consolidating all sourced reference data (i.e., accounts, customers, trading books, market data, aggregation units) data into 1-common and strategic data warehouse
- Provided compliance data subject matter expertise acquired through extensive experience within industry and applied to Barclays’ global compliance-owned systems data quality and integrity control.
- Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.
- Developed and implemented new strategies and policies to establish long-term business objectives and provide strong and sustainable organizational leadership.
CITIGROUP
Trade Surveillance, Vice President
04.2010 - 11.2012
Job overview
- Product Owner for U.S Regulatory and Legal ad hoc reporting system
- Provided oversight of all system security controls such as user entitlements to all components of application, deciding on proper system upgrades across various aspects of system architecture, and creating and maintaining system’s technology roadmap that outlined 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year system technology future states
- Maintained ownership and delivered all budgeting and staffing needs and status reporting across application team
- Managed Data Integration efforts for Global Oracle Mantas Surveillance scenario programs and projects Data Integration Team comprised of 15 Data Analysts located globally (U.S., India and China)
- Worked closely with Legal and Compliance Senior Management in creating, tracking and reporting of important technical milestones according to documented program and project plans.
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE AMERICAS SECURITIES, LLC
Data Engineer
03.2007 - 04.2010
Job overview
- Performed start-to-finish data analysis and integration between several Transactional, Referential and external Market Data sources
- Facilitated on-going data review sessions with each Data Source Owner, further refining Global Data Model as well as data gap review sessions with U.S Compliance Director, continually mitigating potential implementation risks
- Developed U.S Global Compliance Data Model, supporting U.S Compliance as well as London and Paris compliance applications Model based upon several factors: Surveillance Model Data Requirements, Existing Data Source structures, ETL Interface capabilities, and use of existing European Compliance Data Model
- Worked closely with Project Management, U.S Compliance Director, and Chief Compliance Officer in creating, tracking and reporting of important technical milestones
- Verified compliance with data retention requirements by managing document catalogues for long-term archival of data associated with contract closeouts.
- Troubleshot data-related problems and coordinated maintenance or modifications to correct defects.
- Facilitated review and selection of data acquisition citations and applicable standards.
- Designed compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with state and federal data security guidelines.
BEAR STEARNS
Consultant — QA Leader
03.2006 - 03.2007
Job overview
FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY, FINRA
Technical Project Lead
05.2005 - 09.2006
Job overview
ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, EDS
Information Systems Analyst
01.1996 - 10.2004
Job overview
Education
Bloomsburg University of PennsylvaniaBloomsburg, PA
Bachelor of Science from Business Economics
1994
University Overview
Skills
- Deep Regulatory and Compliance Knowledge and Experience
- Strong sense of data ethics and compliance
- Adherence to organizational legal and regulatory frameworks
- Data Stewardship / Ownership
- Effective Data Governance Standards, Policies, Oversight Procedures
- GDPR
- CPRA
- Scalable MDM Solutions
- Informatica MDM
- Data Catalog
- Data Integration
- Data Quality
- Data Enrichment
- Master Data Governance & Security
- Business Process Management
Timeline
Application Architect
Wipro Limited, Marathon Petroleum
07.2022 - 09.2022
Senior Data Engineer
Larsen & Toubro InfoTech, LTI
02.2022 - 04.2022
Senior Delivery Manager
Accenture, LLP
09.2017 - 09.2019
Data Governance Architect
PHH CORPORATION
03.2016 - 06.2017
Senior Consultant — Senior Business Analyst
DEUTSCHE BANK / AFFUSION INC
03.2016 - 06.2017
Senior Vice President — Data Governance Director
FULTON FINANCIAL CORPORATION
09.2014 - 07.2015
Compliance
Vice President, Head of Compliance
BARCLAYS
11.2012 - 09.2014
Trade Surveillance, Vice President
CITIGROUP
04.2010 - 11.2012
Data Engineer
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE AMERICAS SECURITIES, LLC
03.2007 - 04.2010
Consultant — QA Leader
BEAR STEARNS
03.2006 - 03.2007
Technical Project Lead
FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY, FINRA
05.2005 - 09.2006
Information Systems Analyst
ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, EDS
01.1996 - 10.2004
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science from Business Economics
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