Zina Walton-Young
Peoria,IL
Summary
Continue to reinforce my skills and expand my areas of experience to unequivocally align me with the skills to enter the role of a Business Process and Governance professional
- 27 years of IT experience
- Very strong analytical skills
- Displays strong Accountability
- Strong at organizing and planning
- A seasoned Applications Analyst with experience in all facets of the application development cycle
- Experienced working in on-line and batch-processing environments
- Lengthy track record of success, coordination teams of analysts, producing innovative and efficient reliable solution to problems, and providing the support and experience necessary to ensure reliable use and operations
- Good leadership skills, self-motivation, dedication, and strong work habits
- Notable project management skills
- Efficient and effective managed work team
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Management Lead for PRSIM
Strategic Procurement & Planning Division (SPPD)
01.2022 - Current
- Developed and executed standard work documentation and processes
- Build Governance strategy for PRISM to incorporate the 7 Discipline of data governance
- Gathered and facilitated requirements for develop of Data Assessment Tool (Data quality checks)
- Gathered requirements and directed process for weekly job execution monitoring
- Efficiently and effectively managed work team to meet team goals
- Notable Accomplishments: Demonstration of ability to effectively delegate, coach, make decisions and drive results
- Development standard work and procedure used to train and educate team members
- Developed and socialize Data Governance strategy around Data Quality for PRISM.
Data Access Team Lead for Helios
Digit Platform & Connectivity
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Ensured Helios Platform in compliance with Data Governance standards, IT Controls, Enterprise Procedure, and GDPR requirements
- Develop and operationalize process for consumption access provisioning
- Assist with facilitating internal audit for Snowflake
- Active participant in building new Data Governance data access standards
- Facilitate process for obtaining data owner approval for ingestion and profiling
- Notable Accomplishments: Facilitate sessions for gathering and managing requirements for 22 gaps identified for Helios
- Developed strategy for managing data owner approvals for Ingestion, Profiling and Consumption.
Data Governance, Data Quality and MetaData Team Lead
MDM, Data Quality, Access Management, Data Strategy and Governance
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Ensured data governance standards were applied to Entities, API and Code development
- Consulted on the gathering of physical metadata for 3rd party and non-structured data
- Consulted on Data Quality strategy for the Digital Platform
- Active participant in the Data Governance launch while serving as Data Governance Consultant
- Manage data access to Enterprise Data Hub
- Served as a consultant on the automation of the Access Approval process
- Served as a consultant on the revision and execution of the Data Owner Ingestion Approval process
- Notable Accomplishments: Facilitated session for requirements gathering for selecting data to ingestion on the platform
- Served as liaison for Enterprise Data Hub and Digital Relaunch
- Developed and operationalized the Data Owner Approval process
- Communicated data control points as it related to the Enterprise Data Hub (EDH)
- Facilitated Data Owner Forum to educated data.
Data Governance, Data Quality and MetaData Team Lead
Mach 1 Data Management - Cleansing and conversion
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Provided leadership to the Data Governance in identify tasks related to data governance
- Coordinated work between data governance, data quality and metadata teams
- Maintained controls for governing global processes and procedure to promote standard work
- Defined and developed data cleansing road map to effectively utilize the SMEs in the data cleansing process
- Documented the process for enhancing the quality of data within the readiness phase for the Mach 1 deployments
- Manage Resources, task prioritization, issues and risk related to quality support
- Established success metric and facilitated project and staff meeting
- Trained Data Cleansing Coordinators to lead deployment sites through the data cleansing process
- Developed training sessions to direct and coach the Data Cleansing Coordinators
- Worked closely with the ICC team to develop guideline for generating efficient DataStage programs
- Realigned training and support documents that governed data management in effectively supporting current and projected cleansing activities
- Notable Accomplishments: Identification of the 8 elements of Data Governance
- Development of the Data governance strategy
- Development of the Data Quality Strategy.
Data Cleansing Team Lead
Mach 1 Data Management - Cleansing and conversion
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Provided leadership to the Data Cleansing and Data Subject Matter Experts (SME) team
- Coordinated work between the Bangalore, Peoria and EAME Team
- Maintained controls for governing global processes and procedure to promote standard work
- Defined and developed data cleansing road map to effectively utilize the SMEs in the data cleansing process
- Documented the process for enhancing the quality of data within the readiness phase for the Mach 1 deployments
- Manage the Data Cleansing Plan, Resources, task prioritization, issues, and risk
- Established success metric and facilitated project and staff meeting
- Trained Data Cleansing Coordinators to lead deployment sites through the data cleansing process
- Developed training sessions to direct and coach the Data Cleansing Coordinators
- Worked closely with the ICC team to develop guideline for generating efficient DataStage programs
- Realigned training and support documents that governed data management in effectively supporting current and projected cleansing activities
- Notable Accomplishments: Reduced data cleansing development turnaround time from average of 28 day to 10 days or less
- Improved the data cleansing by modifying the process flow to effectively align work being done by US and EAME teams; this increase productivity and assisted with the reduction in the turnaround time for cleansing development.
Project Manager
Mach 1 Data Management – Cleansing and Conversion
01.2007 - 01.2011
- Served as a project manager for data cleansing efforts
- Managed data cleansing activities for all deployments
- Delivered data cleansing recipe to deployment sites
- Served as a project manager for data cleansing efforts
- Facilitated the data cleansing effort for Mach 1 deployment site; included on-boarding activities and maintain processes and procedures
- Facilitated Mock, FDR and Cutover load activities within Mach 1 Data Management
- Executed critical master and transactional data loads
- Served as lead defect coordinator during these cycles to quickly resolve issues to allow each load to be successfully completed by the cycle end date
- Developed support procedure and guidelines to effectively support critical data such as Material Masters, Customers and Vendors
- Notable Accomplishments: Developed process to realign cleansing development by changing SQL to DataStage that reduced re-execution time by as much as 80%.
Support Analyst
Enterprise Data Warehouse
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Responsible for documentation and communication of programming naming standards, Corporate JCL and other section standards
- Developed processes for tracking standard usage to ensure the new processes were being followed and demonstrated initiative by spearheading the drive for building the Support Acceptance Form (SAF) and incorporating it within the V-model process
- Create and identify tasks on the SAF that will be required during the V-Model process
- Paired V-Model process and AQA process for application development
- Created a document to help the section to understand how the Support Acceptance Form (SAF), AQA, 6-Sigma and V-Model processes work together
- Created and presented an integrated flow chart that depicts the difference between each process and how the processes work together
- Served as a Changeman and Strobe consultant
- Acted as lead analyst in executing a process for identifying EDW mainframe cost drivers
- Served as a 24X7 on call support analyst that responded high and low priority incidents
- Notable Accomplishments: Restructured and organized the EDW job code data in a way to accurately track charges
- Developed warranty process for transitioning projects from development to support.
Development/Support Analyst
Enterprise Data Warehouse
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Implemented and supported all mainframe process that were created as a result to the development project for the Global Indirect Spend Transformation PPL
- Served as Data Steward for Global Purchasing
- Facilitated meeting and conference calls
- Served as single point of contact for the development project
- Stepped into the business role and assisted customers with identify and solving data issues
- Self-trained for AJS
- Worked with Changeman and ETi
- Notable Accomplishments: Documented as-is flow for Global Purchase; Identified solution to significantly improve process time
- Successfully installed 106 programs, 154 JCL process and 162 BD2 production plans/packages using Changeman with an aggressive target date
- Rewrote, redesigned & implemented new purchase order process to reduce processing time by 83%
- Accurate implementation reduced support hours by 64%
- Certified Green Belt.
Team Leader
Cat Logistics - American Tool Companies and Fisher Control Accounts
01.2000 - 01.2003
- Trained and supervised 3 analysts
- Managed the workload of system enhancements, problems, and general support issues
- Developed presentations for accomplishments
- Closed and opened issues that were presented quarterly to the client
- Responded to off-shift assistance calls with a sense of urgency
- Demonstrated a level of knowledge that allowed assistance in resolving problems expeditiously
- Strong interpersonal and analytical skills contributed to effective communication with external and internal clients; these skills were instrumental in retrieving pertinent information, which assisted in determining client needs and developing system solutions
- Notable Accomplishments: Defined, designed, and implemented new system changes, resulting in meeting and exceeding the system’s 99.97% availability goal
- Key player in defining and implementing the Change Management process, resulting in 98% error free implementations.
Analyst
Cat Logistics - Honeywell Aerospace Account
01.1997 - 01.2000
- Key analyst in implementing the Honeywell Aerospace start-up project
- Heavily involved in gathering requirements for the System Definition Manual
- Facilitated and developed specifications required for implementing the shipment, adjustment, and receipt interfaces
- Developed a 398-page warehouse training manual that included procedures; this manual included inbound, outbound and warehouse processes
- Developed and conducted training session on MQSeries and SYSBII as it related to the Caterpillar Logistics’ system environment
- Later served as team leader on the Honeywell Aerospace account
- Developed system training manual and provided the necessary training to new analysts
- Lead analyst in coordination and execution of user defined system enhancements
- Directly communicated information to the client and warehouse personal
- When necessary, provided face-to-face client support to the Phoenix based client
- Minimized reoccurring JCL errors by reducing errors such as duplicate records, contention, and implement a number program changes
- Notable Accomplishments: Reduced daily grief, system error by 46%, and of-shift batch pager calls by 23%, increased data accuracy and stabilized the system
- Periodically reviewed support procedures and made necessary changes resulting in a 5% decrease in chargeable hours.
Education
Associate in Applied Science: Data Processing -
Illinois Central College
East Peoria, IL05.
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science -
Western Illinois University
Macomb, ILSkills
Data Quality Assurance
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Data Mapping
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
Technicalexperience
- IBM 2003-126
- BMS/GT
- DATACOMM DB
- DATAQUERY
- COBOL
- COBO II
- CICS/ESE
- VSAM
- JCL
- TSO/SPF
- FILE-AID
- XPEDIER/TSO
- MULTSESS
- MVS/ESE
- PAVALET
- MQSERIES
- SYNC SORT
- SYSBII
- C
- Quick JOB
- DCS
- DATASTAGE
- QUALITYSTAGE
- CHANGEMAN
- DB2
- INFORMATION ANALYZER
- SAGEMAKER
- Alteryx
- Power Bi
- Azure DevOps
Timeline
Data Management Lead for PRSIM
Strategic Procurement & Planning Division (SPPD)
01.2022 - Current
Data Access Team Lead for Helios
Digit Platform & Connectivity
01.2019 - 01.2022
Data Governance, Data Quality and MetaData Team Lead
MDM, Data Quality, Access Management, Data Strategy and Governance
01.2016 - 01.2019
Data Governance, Data Quality and MetaData Team Lead
Mach 1 Data Management - Cleansing and conversion
01.2014 - 01.2016
Data Cleansing Team Lead
Mach 1 Data Management - Cleansing and conversion
01.2011 - 01.2014
Project Manager
Mach 1 Data Management – Cleansing and Conversion
01.2007 - 01.2011
Support Analyst
Enterprise Data Warehouse
01.2005 - 01.2007
Development/Support Analyst
Enterprise Data Warehouse
01.2003 - 01.2005
Team Leader
Cat Logistics - American Tool Companies and Fisher Control Accounts
01.2000 - 01.2003
Analyst
Cat Logistics - Honeywell Aerospace Account
01.1997 - 01.2000
Associate in Applied Science: Data Processing -
Illinois Central College
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science -
Western Illinois University
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