Chief Data Officer
Buckeye Mutual Insurance Group · Columbus, OH
Mar, 2020 · Present
Built and lead a 140-person data, analytics, and ML organisation reporting to the CEO, with a $48M annual budget.
Migrated 37 legacy data marts to a governed cloud lakehouse, cutting infrastructure cost 31% and report latency from days to under 2 hours.
Launched claims-fraud and pricing models that delivered $96M in annual loss-ratio improvement, validated by Finance.
Stood up an enterprise data governance council and catalog covering 2,400 critical data elements; passed 3 state regulatory exams with zero data findings.
Created a responsible-AI review board and model risk framework adopted across 22 production models.
Grew self-service analytics adoption from 600 to 4,100 monthly active users.
VP, Enterprise Analytics
Scioto Retail Holdings · Columbus, OH
Jun, 2015 · Feb, 2020
Led 65 analysts and engineers across BI, data engineering, and customer analytics for a 410-store retailer.
Built a customer data platform unifying 28M loyalty profiles, lifting targeted-campaign revenue 19%.
Delivered demand-forecasting models that cut stockouts 23% and freed $34M in working capital.
Replaced 5 BI tools with one standard platform, saving $2.1M a year in licences.
Director, Data Engineering and BI
Great Lakes Financial Services · Cleveland, OH
Aug, 2010 · May, 2015
Built the company's first enterprise data warehouse serving 1,200 users across lending and deposits.
Automated regulatory reporting (CCAR and call reports), reducing close-cycle effort by 60%.
Hired and developed a 30-person team; 6 direct reports later became directors.
Senior Data Architect
Midwest Health Analytics · Dayton, OH
Jul, 2007 · Jul, 2010
Designed HIPAA-compliant data models for 14 hospital clients and led master-data management rollout.
Cut ETL failures 70% through automated data quality checks.