Jeremy Curtis
Salt Lake City,UT
Summary
Highly intelligent and self-motivated professional with nearly 15 years of combined experience at a Fortune 100 Financial Institution and the world's largest Business Travel Management organization. Successfully led global, enterprise-wide initiatives and developed cutting-edge, risk-based governance programs that integrate regulatory requirements into organizational processes. Excel at promoting collaboration and fostering transformation within business units to enable their success. Dedicated and detail-oriented, specializing in implementing and maintaining data governance frameworks across multiple business lines.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Data Governance Specialist
Amex GBT
01.2017 - Current
- As senior most Data Governance Specialist, led efforts in acquisition, onboarding, implementation, integration, customization and maintenance of Alation to establish robust data governance framework, ensuring seamless data cataloguing, metadata management, and lineage tracking
- Conducted training sessions for team members on Alation best practices and data analysis techniques after migration
- Responsible for metadata management of data, inclusive of data definitions, data catalogue, data lineage, and documentation of data matrix flow for critical processes
- Supported implementation of Alation by cataloging and organizing data assets
- Linked data lineage to data quality and business glossary work within overall data governance program
- Implemented Data Governance using Excel and Collibra uploads to maximize efficiency
- Partnered with Risk and Privacy team for Data Risk and Control identification and assessment within regulatory standards
- Managed parallel workstream to stand up multiple lines of business in regulatory compliance efforts, data risk assessment, and business process validation
- Lead meetings with stakeholders, Application Business Owners, SMEs, and technology managers to integrate long-term solutions for data governance within multiple domains
- Utilize case-driven processes to promote adoption and utilization, ensuring that each business unit was able to properly identify critical data elements for cataloging and curation to deliver data that is fit for purpose
IT Risk Analyst/Program Manager for Global Disaster Recovery
American Express
09.2009 - 09.2016
- Project Manager - Lead a two-year, major joint-venture divestiture in regard to Disaster Recovery
- Oversaw the Disaster Recovery needs and requirements of hundreds of applications as they went through a logical and total physical separation from American Express in a partnered divestiture
- Ensured the maintenance of historical data, Disaster Recovery was identified and in place for instances remaining in the American Express Data Centers, contracts, agreements, and SLAs were updated as needed
- Lead a team that partnered closely with Directors, VPs, Senior VPs, Business Owners and Application teams across the globe to re-engineer an application exception process consisting of 1,123 applications from 312 various non-traditional hosting locations
- Federal regulators provided an unprecedented 'Satisfactory' rating as the risk to the organization transitioned from severe to none with all applications meeting rigid recovery requirements
- Spearheaded the creation of the Cyber Recovery Program
- By defining existing processes, existing capabilities, understanding the Anatomy of an Attack, defining possible scenarios and impact to the enterprise, created a process, documented playbooks and procedures, created process flow diagrams and tested the solutions existing within the company
- This dynamic process matured our global organization to a fully resilient, fully recoverable enterprise in regard to a Cyber Security Event
- Deployed the Archer tool as a new enterprise-wide system of record
- Involving tool access control, functionality, uplift and User Access Testing, implement new end user requirements, ease of use and audit requirements
- This included requirement identification, method of deployment, change management, budget tracking, vendor and resource allocations, and change freeze communication
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City2013
Skills
- Alation
- Office 365
- SharePoint
- Collibra
- Matlab
- AccessIT
- Expert problem solving
- Analytical thinking
- Management collaboration
- Advanced communication
- Technical communication
- Team collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Coaching and mentoring
- Technical troubleshooting
- Continuous improvement
- Compliance monitoring
- Risk management
- Process optimization
- Operational enhancement
- Attention to detail
- Decision-making
- Process analysis
Accomplishments
- Managed and led the implementation and customization of Alation to establish comprehensive data cataloging, metadata management, and lineage tracking, ensuring that data assets are accurately organized and easily accessible.
- Extensive experience as a Senior Data Governance Specialist and Analyst with a successful record in implementing and ensuring seamless data cataloguing, metadata management, and lineage tracking.
- Expertise that extends to managing technical onboarding of metadata, data source ingestion resolution, and more. Also well-versed in risk and compliance, with a keen understanding of regulatory concepts, excelling in stakeholder communication, providing clear, actionable insights and recommendations that drive data governance initiatives forward.
- Proven collaborator who has worked across business lines to link data lineage to data quality and business glossary work within the overall data governance program.
- Detail oriented with demonstrated ability at problem solving and efficiency, such as implementing Data Governance using Collibra uploads to maximize efficiency and reduce re-work.
- Experience in Data Management including Business Analytics, Data Analysis, Data Governance, and Data Lineage.
- Background includes developing Collibra integration solutions with experience in setting up people's roles, responsibilities and controls, data ownership, workflows, and common processes.
- Possess an ability to learn and master new skills at an incredible rate providing a level of flexibility and relatability that consistently exceeds expectations. This technical expertise, combined with his excellent communication skills.
- Experience in government contracts, GDPR, CCPA, and regulatory data security.
Timeline
Sr. Data Governance Specialist
Amex GBT
01.2017 - Current
IT Risk Analyst/Program Manager for Global Disaster Recovery
American Express
09.2009 - 09.2016
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Salt Lake Community College
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