Experience

Hometap

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• VP of Data

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  New York City Metropolitan Area Accountable for data science, data engineering, BI at Hometap.



American Challenger Development Corporation

• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer

  • May 2022 - Mar 2023

  United States I am the CIO of the startup, cloud-based bank, Bank Cache developed by the American Challenger Development Corporation. I am responsible for the end-to-end IT stack, architecture, and operations.



American Challenger Development Corp

• Chief Technology Officer & Chief Data Officer

  • Aug 2020 - Mar 2023

  New York, United States American Challenger Development Corp. is launching a digital bank unlike any other. We’ve designed a forward-thinking solution that caters to you and the things you care about. Our premium digital banking experience is tech-driven yet human to the core. We want to get to know you and understand your goals. Then work relentlessly hard to help realize them. More personal and more rewarding — just the way banking should be



Citigroup

• Head of Data & Marketing Architecture for Global Consumer Group

  • Dec 2017 - Jun 2020

  New York I am responsible for Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group data and marketing architecture including reference architectures and solution architecture for data & marketing in all contexts: at-rest, in both traditional and modern platforms, in motion across APIs, micro services, in messages or streams. As the global data architect, I am responsible for designing and supporting the build / deployment of strategic platforms within Citigroup and – increasingly – in the external cloud. My… Show more I am responsible for Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group data and marketing architecture including reference architectures and solution architecture for data & marketing in all contexts: at-rest, in both traditional and modern platforms, in motion across APIs, micro services, in messages or streams. As the global data architect, I am responsible for designing and supporting the build / deployment of strategic platforms within Citigroup and – increasingly – in the external cloud. My specific responsibilities include ● Legacy Warehouse & Reporting Architecture: EDW (Terradata), BI (Tableau + Legacy), ETL (Talend, Ab Initio), etc. ● Big Data Environment Architect – Our open-source big-data environment for analytics & model development. This includes a lambda architecture and a model deployment environment for real-time models ● AI/ML/MLOps strategy & architecture – The tools and approaches we use to automate, enable, and empower data scientists. Includes ML Tools and languages (R, Python, H2O, etc.) model life-cycle and deployment automation, etc. ● External Cloud architecture – We have started to move some analytic functions into the external cloud (AWS) and intend to significantly accelerate external cloud adoption ● Real-time data middle-ware / streaming architecture – Real-time, streaming data platform (Confluent Kafka) used to drive personalization across channels ● Customer data platform architect – our 360-degree view of the consumer using both MDM (Informatica) and graph technologies (GraphQL) to store, present, and manage customer data ● Marketing technology architect – Our salesforce-based martech & adtech platforms including journey orchestration, recommendation & next-best-action decision engine, DMP, MRM, and other components ● Enterprise data model / semantic ontology – I own our enterprise data model (more properly a “semantic ontology”) used to drive a common definition of data across interfaces and functions Show less



The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

• United States
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President – Enterprise Data Management

  • May 2014 - Dec 2017

  NYC I am responsible for defining the Estee Lauder's data management strategy, leading data management governance and enabling the technology infrastructure and the enterprise information & data architecture required to deliver data management capabilities across all brands, geographic regions, and functions such as R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, etc. Enterprise Data Management is a business-led function with support from operational groups and IT. The over-arching goal of Enterprise… Show more I am responsible for defining the Estee Lauder's data management strategy, leading data management governance and enabling the technology infrastructure and the enterprise information & data architecture required to deliver data management capabilities across all brands, geographic regions, and functions such as R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, etc. Enterprise Data Management is a business-led function with support from operational groups and IT. The over-arching goal of Enterprise Data Management is to manage critical business data as an asset by enabling the processes, practices and accountabilities required to deliver high quality, consistent data to business processes and decision-makers. I also run Data Innovation -- the discipline of using data science and analytics to provide extract and realize the full value of our data assets. We work with management to provide answers to strategic business questions, derive insights, and help win in the marketplace. A major focus of our data science program is Social Media Listening -- bringing in data from multiple social networks and combining it with structured, internal data (e.g. sales transactions records) to gain insight into how emerging social media phenomena are impacting our performance and how we can leverage social media to drive value. Beyond social media we are also exploring the value of predictive and prescriptive analytics for disciplines such as supply chain and Research & Development. Show less



Citi

• Global Head of Business Data Management

  • Aug 2012 - May 2014

  Jamestown, New York Area The Global Head of Business Data Management (GHBDM) has over-all responsibility for managing the business-owned components of the Global Data Roadmap. This includes cross-silo data governance, the execution and continual update of the enterprise data strategy, and establishing controls that ensure complete, high-quality data for Citi’s key business functions. The GHBDM owns Citi’s Data Management Policy (CDMP), and is responsible for maintaining and updating the policy and for providing… Show more The Global Head of Business Data Management (GHBDM) has over-all responsibility for managing the business-owned components of the Global Data Roadmap. This includes cross-silo data governance, the execution and continual update of the enterprise data strategy, and establishing controls that ensure complete, high-quality data for Citi’s key business functions. The GHBDM owns Citi’s Data Management Policy (CDMP), and is responsible for maintaining and updating the policy and for providing senior management with a transparent view of Citi’s alignment with policy and the business value delivered by Citi’s data management program (e.g. the Data Roadmap Impact Report). The GHBDM Management drives Citi’s data strategies including the annual refresh of the Global Data Roadmap and the business strategies for Citi’s Enterprise Information Assets (EIAs – e.g. Customer Data, Transaction Data, and Account Data) and Strategic Data Repositories (SDRs). The GHBDM oversees the strategies and target-state architectures and tracks execution of those strategies. The GHBDM chairs Citi’s data governance forum (Enterprise Data Governance Council) and is responsible for supporting Citi’s Data Governance Officers (DGOs) in the execution of their responsibilities regarding policy implementation and Business As Usual (BAU) data quality management. Show less



Citi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Head of Data Standards

  • Apr 2010 - May 2014

  Responsible for establishing, driving the adoption of, and overseeing the administration and maintenance of enterprise data standards. I am also responsible for the design and development of user facing and foundational components of Citi's "Big Data" program The Data Standards Office is part of Citi's enterprise data governance program under the Chief Data Officer



Citi

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Architecture Director for Architecture Shared Services

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2009

  I am responsible for the enterprise business architecture function. The team I lead provides IT Strategies (e.g. multi-year roadmaps) and specific, detailed, architecture designs for the critical, most-complex business problems Citi faces at an enterprise level. The Business Architecture function drives the alignment between technical disciplines (e.g. application development, technical architecture, etc.) and the business.



IBM

• Managing Consultant

  • 2001 - Dec 2004

  I was an IT Strategy consultant with IBM's Strategy & Change. I worked in both the Financial Services vertical (clients included Citigroup, S&P, Bloomberg, etc.) and the Consumer Packaged Goods (e.g. Coke, Campbell's Soup, etc.). I came to IBM through their acquisition of Mainspring Consulting.



Mainspring

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategy Consultant

  • 1999 - 2001

  IT Strategy consultant to global clients in the financial services, retail, and travel sectors. Developed strategies to leverage emerging channels such as mobile and that new Internet thing. I was also part of the architecture and delivery team which oversaw the implementation of the strategy (typically building a website and integrating it with existing fulfillment and servicing capabilities). Mainspring was acquired by IBM in 2001



Racal Datacom

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineer

  • 1995 - 1997