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Heather Clifford

Las Vegas,NV

Summary

Experienced Data Strategist with a proven track record in transforming enterprise data into a strategic asset that drives informed business decisions. Instrumental in launching and leading a Center of Data Excellence , where I spearheaded the design and rollout of a robust Data Governance strategy across the organization. Known for delivering dependable data solutions and enforcing rigorous data quality standards to support operational efficiency and analytics maturity.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Governance Strategist

IGT
10.2022 - Current
  • Founding member of a Center of Data Excellence prioritizing the value of data as an asset.
  • Formed a steering committee with representation from Privacy, Legal, and Compliance that was responsible for reviewing new data that was planned for ingestion into a data lake.
  • Developed and implemented a data governance strategy for the management of sensitive data and access
  • Implemented automated Data Quality checking and reporting
  • Troubleshoot data pipeline issues
  • Mentored junior developers and promoted professional growth within the team, resulting in increased productivity levels.
  • Implementation of Atlan, a data governance tool - Enriched thousands of data assets to create a governed marketplace environment for IGT.
  • Developed a Master Data Management plan and implemented a data harmonization process resulting in a common data model

Senior Software Development Manager

IGT
03.2017 - 10.2022
    • Offer technical guidance for a team of 6 Database administrators and developers in areas of design, development, and implementation of complex database applications.
    • Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts.
    • Overseer of numerous simultaneous projects, monitoring each for development milestone and quality control compliance.
    • Review code to check compliance with company coding guidelines.

Consulting Software Engineer

IGT
04.2015 - 03.2017
    • Invented the worlds first multi-vendor, wide area, progressive game (US Patent 8,109,827)
    • Lead database developer responsible for design, development, and implementation of the main progressive jackpot engine, including jackpot management, sign display and reporting.
    • Wrote well-crafted, well-tested, readable and maintainable code.
    • Applied advanced problem-solving experience and troubleshot and diagnosed complex project issues.

Principal Software Engineer

Spielo Int
02.2005 - 04.2015
    • Designed and developed robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance related to accounting on a mission critical OLTP system
    • Converted a Sybase Database to DB2
    • Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.

Senior Software Engineer

GTECH
01.1998 - 02.2005
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Database developer
  • Created Custom Game Performance reports for Lottery customers
  • Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL
12.1994

Skills

  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Data pipeline troubleshooting
  • SQL expertise
  • Data governance
  • Data security
  • Data quality assurance
  • Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, Python, JIRA, Atlan, GitHub
  • Data governance expertise

Timeline

Data Governance Strategist

IGT
10.2022 - Current

Senior Software Development Manager

IGT
03.2017 - 10.2022

Consulting Software Engineer

IGT
04.2015 - 03.2017

Principal Software Engineer

Spielo Int
02.2005 - 04.2015

Senior Software Engineer

GTECH
01.1998 - 02.2005

Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics

Florida Institute of Technology

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