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A Canadian provincial registries modernisation program

Senior Data Strategist

The province's registries hold about 50 million records across land titles, motor vehicles, corporate and personal property, and vital statistics. A seven-year program is moving them from IBM mainframes to a cloud data platform.

The principal designed and set up the data governance program for all seven registry services: the decision process, the guiding principles, and a steering committee with named owners, stewards and custodians. The decision process was adopted once it listed each decision and who makes it. The principal also designed the Data Centre of Excellence, a practice with ten service lines, a staged staffing plan and a data literacy program for staff and managers, and wrote, as sole author, the ten-year data modernisation strategy for all of the registries, with roadmaps for data migration, data quality, interoperability, privacy and security, analytics and reporting, data-driven innovation and digital twins, and a framework for governing AI.

Other work on the program: a custom data maturity assessment built on the UK Central Digital and Data Office framework; the record retention metadata standard for land titles; the legal assessment of 2.8 million active land titles, worth more than $1.2 trillion, for the move off the mainframe; the data strategy for retiring a 40-year-old motor vehicle mainframe; the design of a life-event model following a person from birth registration to estate settlement; and the AI policy framework that keeps AI tools away from secured personal information by using synthetic data.

An Indigenous-led sovereign AI compute venture

Technology and Innovation Advisor to the Board

Advice to the board of a pre-operational sovereign AI data centre and energy program with Indigenous majority ownership. The principal has produced more than 40 documents for the board, including an enterprise risk framework covering 14 top-level risks, a launch gap register of 27 items, and a four-phase certification roadmap that maps more than 25 federal security standards.

The work also covers the board's restructuring decision, due diligence on vendors and service providers, a market analysis of Canadian sovereign AI, data and cloud operators, and the design of the operating organisation.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Senior Specialist, Master Data Management

Delivered the master data management strategy, the solution delivery framework and the implementation statement of work. Designed and implemented the ontology and taxonomy for enterprise master data.

Export Development Canada

Principal Data Services Architect

A remote role reporting to the Director of Digital Innovation. Led the assessment of master data management vendors and, as architecture owner, delivered the solution within its $2.1 million budget and 18-month schedule on an outcome-based contract. The principal also designed and implemented the ontology and taxonomy for the enterprise master data model.

Other work: the data integrity assessment for Business Credit Availability Program reporting, advice on anonymisation and data masking to the cyber risk and data governance teams, and the data strategy presented to executives. Managed vendor relationships with Accenture, EY, Informatica and Microsoft.

Painted Molecule

VP, Platform Architecture and Technology Innovation

Delivered the data pipeline for a real-time spectrographic crude oil analysis platform on hybrid AWS and Azure two months early.

A provincial government's historical collections

Consultant

Assessment of a legacy collections system and its options, complete with a conceptual architecture and a full analysis of the collection's user personas.

A provincial health cloud data lake

Data Architect

Data architecture for a provincial cloud semantic data lake with machine-learning pipelines on open-source technology.

Alberta Health Services

Director, Enterprise Information Management

Reported to the CIO and the VP, Health Information Management. Designed and implemented the Enterprise Information Management Program, including its data and information governance framework and Data Centre of Excellence. The strategy and framework were published in the Canadian Health Information Management Lifecycle.

Designed and directed the Data Centre of Excellence and the data governance framework, supporting seven work streams, twelve work groups and more than 450 clinical and non-clinical subject-matter experts writing data, information and records standards and policy. Led the policy development and delivery that defined the information making up Alberta's Comprehensive Patient Record, through to provincial adoption, and delivered the enterprise information risk framework with the Enterprise Risk Management Office. Managed vendor relationships with Deloitte, EY, Informatica and Microsoft.

Alberta Health Services

Enterprise Architect

Designed and implemented the client experience, information architecture and wireframes for the MyHealthAlberta.ca patient portal, and led the portal's move into operations. Its ontology and taxonomy brought together the SNOMED CT and ICD-9 clinical vocabularies.

ATB Financial

Program Director, Co-brand Credit Card

Led the ATB MasterCard co-brand program, with a $21 million budget and a team of 12 plus 20 extended, and led the partner alliance and portfolio purchase negotiations for the CEO and VP.

TransCanada Pipelines

Project Manager

A $3.2 million budget, a team of 16 plus 12, and three project streams, each with its own project manager. Established the information governance framework for intranet and portal content under Sarbanes-Oxley, and migrated more than 50,000 orphaned data sources.

JPMorgan Chase Bank

Program Manager

Contributor to the $23 million corporate systems consolidation program, serving 26 million customers, during the JPMorgan Chase Bank and Bank One consolidation. Managed an $8 million budget and coordinated 15 program leads in Wilmington, New York, Columbus, Houston and Mumbai. Designed and implemented the ontology and taxonomy for the Chase credit card portal, covering more than 150 cards and affiliates.

Morgan Stanley

User Experience Delivery Program Manager

Redesign of the original Morgan Stanley Online platform, including user experience, wireframes, dashboards, data integrations, privacy, ontology and taxonomy.