KATE HANELL
Bettendorf
Summary
Accomplished Data Governance Architect at Mutual of Omaha, driving a 500+ annual increase in finance catalog content. Expert in data quality and risk management, I excel in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement, establishing governance frameworks that enhance data integrity and stewardship culture.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Data Governance Architect
Mutual of Omaha
Omaha
08.2024 - Current
- Designed and established the strategy, operating model, and roadmap for finance data governance.
- Established a finance domain governance council to align governance priorities with business needs.
- Established four finance data domains, filling and training key roles, and identifying CDEs and data quality rules.
- Established data catalog curation and approval processes, achieving an annual increase of 500+ in Finance catalog content (glossary terms, articles, metadata).
- Created program KPIs and established a governance scorecard dashboard.
- Scaled stewardship and data literacy resources to mature stewardship culture and change management, including AI-driven training content, formal LMS training, Teams channels, and online resources.
- Work directly with business and IS partners to understand data quality impacts, requirements, and ensure remediation.
- Facilitate executive report-outs and presentations for governance initiatives, KPIs, and data issues.
- Architect data quality profiling tools, integrations, strategy, and best practices. Established a working group to deliver the DQ Playbook for DevOps teams.
- Facilitate standards and policy development, data quality rules, access models, privacy and risk policy implementation.
Data Governance Advisor
John Deere
Il
02.2019 - Current
- Implemented comprehensive data asset process resulting in identification of over 2,000 critical assets, over 5,000 critical data elements, and risk mitigation for crown jewel data by 90%.
- Led implementation of enterprise data governance framework consisting of 15 data communities with over 200 stewards from various levels of the Business.
- Successfully increased enterprise data governance maturity from emerging to managed in a 4-year period – 2 level increase as measured by PwC.
- Led cross-functional team to develop data quality playbook and CDE process, resulting in 94% improvement in 6 key quality dimensions across critical business data.
- Implemented ABAC model (Immuta) to automate de-identification requirements for sensitive data and streamline business unit access management policies, resulting in 75% decrease in manual dataset approval time.
- Deliver thought leadership to support governance implementation in cross-functional councils and teams including: DPIA's, AI Governance, risk assessments, IT dev teams, data loss prevention, and domain specific governance councils.
Product Owner
John Deere
Il
09.2016 - 02.2019
- Led team of 8 software engineers to successfully execute MDG global implementation, API development, OM Release, S/4 Hana upgrade.
- Ensured technical solution development for unit/function aligned with enterprise strategic initiatives and data governance/privacy requirements.
IT Business Analyst
John Deere
Il
01.2013 - 09.2016
- Designed and implemented two Web Dynpro portal applications reducing manual processes by 90%.
- Analyzed high volume of business processes, translated user requirements for over 50 projects, identified resulting gaps and implemented mitigations.
- Successfully led 10 SAP HCM global personnel area implementations.
Global Subject-Matter Expert - HCM
3M
CA
08.2008 - 01.2013
- Led team of 3 business analysts to collaborate across all levels of the org to realize system efficiencies and ensure data integrity.
- Completed all SAP – HCM systems enhancements, data integrations, project implementations, training, and metrics.
HR/IT Administrator
Ablestik Laboratories
CA
01.2005 - 01.2008
LMU Graduate Assistant
Loyola Marymount University
CA
01.2002 - 12.2003
Education
MA - Counseling
Loyola Marymount University
CA01.2003
BA - Psychology
Loyola Marymount University
CA01.2001
Skills
- Alation
- JIRA
- Informatica
- Snowflake
- Teradata
- Data management
- Data quality
- Data protection
- Risk management
- MDM
- One Trust
- Collibra
- GDPR
- Immuta
- Power BI
- Policy management
- AI Governance
- Data Analysis
- SAP HCM
- Metrics
- Advanced Presentation Skills
- DPIA
- ABAC
- Influencing without authority
- Agile
- Audit
- COBIT
- NIST
- Risk Analysis
- Project Management
- Group Facilitation
- Training
- Change Management
- Communication
- Mentorship
- Stewardship
- Development
- Data cataloging
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Data governance
- Data analytics
- Stakeholder engagement
- Change management
- Problem solving
- Process improvement
- Adobe creative suite
Certification
CDMP Master Level (Expected 4/26)
AIGP
Agile Product Owner
AIGP
Agile Product Owner
Timeline
Data Governance Architect
Mutual of Omaha
08.2024 - Current
Data Governance Advisor
John Deere
02.2019 - Current
Product Owner
John Deere
09.2016 - 02.2019
IT Business Analyst
John Deere
01.2013 - 09.2016
Global Subject-Matter Expert - HCM
3M
08.2008 - 01.2013
HR/IT Administrator
Ablestik Laboratories
01.2005 - 01.2008
LMU Graduate Assistant
Loyola Marymount University
01.2002 - 12.2003
MA - Counseling
Loyola Marymount University
BA - Psychology
Loyola Marymount University