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Phyllis Schmid

@phyllisschmid

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Senior enterprise data architect specializing in data governance and modeling.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior leadership role where I can establish data governance, build data products, and drive enterprise-wide adoption of metadata and architecture standards in a collaborative, outcome-driven environment.

I am an experienced data and information management executive with more than 30 years delivering data architecture, data modeling, and data governance across financial services, life sciences, and other industries.

I have led enterprise-wide data modeling and metadata efforts, developed data management policies and standards, and guided large platform rollouts including Snowflake and Azure DWS.

My work includes building Data Product practices, implementing hybrid data catalog strategies, and establishing technical design authorities and governance structures to support master, reference, and metadata management.

I am results-oriented, mentor-oriented, and focused on practical adoption of standards and tooling to improve data quality, lineage, and accountability across complex organizations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of Data Modeling

Current

Quest Diagnostics

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Responsible for enterprise-wide data modeling and transition to a Data Product development approach; defined naming standards, minimum metadata, and led data architecture for two major application re-platforms.

Data Modeling Metadata Management Data Cataloging Enterprise Architecture Data Governance Snowflake

Enterprise Data and Information Architect

AstraZeneca

Nov 2019 - Jan 2024 (4 years 2 months)

Led development of an enterprise logical data model, metadata and reference data strategies, and rolled out data management policies and governance including Data Ethics for AI/ML use; drove Snowflake rollout.

Data Modeling Metadata Management Data Governance Data Cataloging Data Ethics Snowflake Policy Development

Data/Information Architect

JPMorgan Chase Bank

Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 (1 year)

Developed data models for operational and integration applications including event-based delivery solutions and supported target platforms such as DB2, Cassandra and AVRO/Kafka.

Information Architecture Data Modeling Cassandra Avro Kafka

Enterprise Information Architect

Acosta Retail Sales & Marketing

Jul 2017 - Jul 2018 (1 year)

Built enterprise data management artifacts including enterprise and business information models, canonical models, and data governance processes; developed Azure DWS/SSDW and Data Vault models for data lake/lambda architecture.

Data Modeling Information Model Vault Data Governance Metadata Management Lambda

Data/Information Architect

Deutsche Bank

Mar 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 2 months)

Established data architecture governance policies and operational framework for data design review and big data governance; reviewed conceptual, canonical and solution data models across the bank.

Data Governance Data Modeling Data Design Conceptual Modeling Metadata

Senior Data Architect

JPMorgan Chase Bank

Apr 2011 - Mar 2016 (4 years 11 months)

Led reference and governance for elementary reference data across the firm and drove data governance foundations, accountability policy, and enterprise logical data model development for consumer banking lines.

Reference Data Management Data Governance Metadata Data Architecture Data Lineage

Senior Management Consultant

IBM Global Services

Aug 2010 - Mar 2011 (7 months)

Managed Teradata performance tuning for a pharmaceutical client and developed baseline pharmaceutical industry data model and data architecture/governance artifacts for gaming and pharma clients.

Teradata Data Architecture Data Modeling Data Governance

Senior Information Architect

JPMorgan Chase Bank

Jun 2006 - Aug 2010 (4 years 2 months)

Developed data warehouse and financial data mart models, corporate data model and governance artifacts; maintained multiple production models across Oracle, DB2 and IMS environments and mentored junior architects.

Data Warehousing Erwin Oracle Metadata Management Governance Mentoring

Marketing Solutions Consultant

Quaero

Oct 2005 - Jun 2006 (8 months)

Facilitated workshops to document campaign management processes and recommended data model changes to improve campaign selection and suppression for Unica Affinium implementations.

Campaign Management Data Modeling Unica Affinium Data Mapping Business Analysis Erwin

Information Architect

GSI Commerce

Apr 2004 - Aug 2005 (1 year 4 months)

Developed information resource management infrastructure and data models for order management and webstore applications using ERwin across DB2 and Oracle platforms.

Information Architecture Erwin Data Modeling Oracle IRM Metadata Management

Data Architect

Various (Consulting)

Jan 1983 - Dec 2004 (21 years 11 months)

Provided long-term consulting engagements across financial, pharma, publishing and telecommunications sectors delivering enterprise data models, data warehouse redesigns, and governance frameworks.