Building the platforms, governance, and cultures that make data the most trusted asset in any organization — across any industry.
I have spent 20 years solving one fundamental problem across multiple industries: how do you make data the most trusted, most reliable, most valuable asset in an organization — not just technically accurate, but trusted enough that every team builds on it instead of building around it?
The answer is never purely technical. It is a people challenge, a governance challenge, and a cultural challenge as much as an engineering one. I bring all three.
"The technology migration is the visible part. The real transformation is when every team stops building their own workarounds and starts relying on a single source of truth."
From building complete data platforms from zero as the first hire at Fair Square Financial — through acquisition by Ally Financial — to leading enterprise data strategy as SVP and Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Merrick Bank, I have consistently delivered transformations that generate measurable outcomes and lasting organizational change.
Defining multi-year data roadmaps aligned to organizational priorities. Building governance frameworks, MDM/RDM platforms, data contracts, and stewardship models that earn trust across the enterprise — and satisfy the most demanding regulatory and audit standards.
Hands-on expertise designing and building cloud-native data platforms on AWS, Azure, and Snowflake. dbt transformation layers. Kafka event pipelines. Spark distributed processing. From greenfield build to enterprise-scale production — with full engineering accountability.
Building production AI and ML infrastructure — feature stores, model deployment pipelines, LLM integration, and agentic AI workflows. AI governance and explainability built in from day one. Actively using Claude Code and agentic tools to accelerate data organization productivity.
Master data management, entity resolution, golden record design, and reference data governance. Automated quality observability, SLA management, and data contract enforcement. The foundation that makes every downstream analytics and AI use case reliable.
Self-serve analytics platforms that genuinely raise data literacy. BI enablement across Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, and Sigma. Canonical datasets. KPI standardization. Decisions made faster, with higher confidence, by business teams — not the data team.
The hardest part of any data transformation is never the technology. It is the organizational change — evangelizing the vision, bringing teams along, phasing out legacy systems with minimal disruption, and building the culture that sustains the transformation long after the platform is live.
Leads enterprise data strategy, AI/ML platform, governance framework, and analytics organization for a federally regulated $6B institution. Full P&L and hiring authority. Reports to executive leadership.
De-facto CDO for Ally's $2.5B consumer portfolio. Led post-acquisition platform integration, 4× faster model deployment, 7× workload reduction, and 10× FTE ROI through cloud modernization and AI/ML automation.
First data hire. Built complete cloud-native data platform from zero — Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Python. $100M+ in gross bookings through AI/ML. Platform became core acquisition asset in Ally's due diligence.
Led global team of 20 across US and UK for a $25B portfolio. 75% reduction in report time. Governed under BCBS 239, CFPB, CCAR, DFAST, PRA simultaneously — zero regulatory findings across three audit cycles.
Built credit risk data infrastructure, Finance MIS, and account-level P&L database. Directed CCAR stress testing infrastructure and federal regulatory reporting for a $27B lending portfolio.
Architected risk data infrastructure. Built SAS-based models for P&L forecasting, loss analysis, vintage analysis, and pricing. Macroeconomic correlation models using Moody's Analytics data.
Connect with me to discuss data strategy, AI transformation, and technology leadership — always happy to explore how data and AI can drive meaningful outcomes at scale.