About
I'm a data analyst working in data governance, data quality, and metadata management. I spent 11 years running the systems that financial data moves through, at DTCC and then USAA, before moving to governing the data itself on USAA's bank data team. That is the part that makes the work different: I know how the systems produce the data, so when a number is wrong I know where to go looking. I hold a CDMP Associate from DAMA International and an MIT Sloan certificate in AI strategy.
Core values
Companies publish these. Mine show up in the work before they show up in conversation.
Integrity
Above reproach
If I can't do the job in a way I'd be comfortable walking someone through line by line, I don't take it. That has cost me things. I'd still rather lose the work than explain away how I got it.
Stewardship
Everything is on loan
My time and my skills and my money, and the data somebody trusted me with. I manage what I've been handed instead of treating it like mine. That is most of what data stewardship is.
Authenticity
Same in private as in public
No masks, no dark corners, and my yes means yes. You get the same person in the interview, on the team, and on a bad week.
Intentionality
A beat behind beats confidently wrong
I think before I answer. That reads as slow if you wanted a fast reply, and it is the reason the number I hand you is one I have checked.
How I'm wired
I went through a stretch of trying to know myself better and took a pile of these.
| Assessment | Result | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| CliftonStrengths | Restorative, Relator, Input, Developer, Ideation | I am the person who cannot walk past a broken thing. Give me 100 failing rules and I am happier than I would be with a clean slate. The Developer part is why I keep ending up teaching, and why I liked that more than I expected to. |
| DISC | C/SD. Cautious, then Supportive and Dominant | I check the work before it ships, and I would rather find my own mistake than have you find it. The Supportive half is the part people notice second: I will hold a high bar without turning it into a fight. |
| Big Five also called OCEAN or the Five Factor Model | Agreeableness 96th percentile. Enthusiasm 92nd. Neuroticism 9th. Assertiveness 31st | The one with actual research behind it. When something breaks I get quieter, not louder, which is a useful trait in a room full of people who got louder. And I am the one people tell the truth to about their data, usually before they tell their manager. |
| Myers-Briggs | ENFJ, the Protagonist or Teacher | Called the Protagonist, though Teacher fits better. I see what someone could be good at before they do, and I am at my best on the day the thing I understand finally clicks for someone else. |