Tracy Grygiel

I am very passionate about data.  Data is an asset to any company or entity and should be handled just like IT servers, people, and other valuable assets.  

I have a lot of experience working at Harvard University for 11 years and Boston Medical Center for 4 (pre covid) and have learned that handled improperly, data can cost companies millions and can cause audits to happen and compliance to fail.  

I would like to work with a company that needs someone who understands technology (databases, servers, cloud solutions, etc.), but also understands that IT doesn't own data and it's a company wide initiative to make sure data is secure, in compliance, means the same thing across the company (i.e. a “customer” could be a patient or vendor at a hospital).  

I'm looking to work with a company who realizes that data is an asset and should be treated as such.  In order to benefit and profit from data, they must be seen as assets, just like inventory, materials, products, etc. 

• It consists of applying the same rigor, processes and standards to measure data, as you do for other assets in the company (servers, people, etc.)
• Involves how data are created, transmitted, updated, stored, used, destroyed
• This turns data from something intangible into something tangible, which can be measured, monitored, tracked;
• One of the key success factors when implementing as DG/DM initiative is precisely to get stakeholders thinking this way;

Summary 

• Experienced in all facets of Data Governance with a strong understanding of executing governance, compliance, and risk (GRC)
• Directly involved in data governance at Harvard University, Boston Medical Center and Pie Insurance
• Experienced in developing new Enterprise Data Warehouses in Snowflake -  starting at the staging point, the vault (hubs, sats, and links) and the IWH.
• Experienced playing multiple roles in BI and Data Warehouse industry involving several large Data Warehouse (DW), Data integration, and Master Data management (MDM) initiatives.
• Executed Architectural and leadership responsibilities providing technical directions and industry best practices, delivered highly available and scalable solutions and in small, medium, and large size IT organization.
• Built Data warehouses & complex Data Integration solutions across business domain - Healthcare, Financial, Technology, and Higher Education industry.
• Extensive experience in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) working on architecture, analysis, prototyping, data modeling, ETL, designing marts, provided tuning expertise for adhoc and reporting efforts.
• Expertise in all areas of EDW Architecture including data modeling, Dimensional Modeling (Ralph Kimball Methodology) of Star Schema with multiple Facts subject area and conformed Dimension tables.
• Expertise in Extract Transform Load (ETL) Architecture, Design, Administration, Development and Optimization .

Education

• University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, MA: BA, English Writing / Communications 
• Harvard University; courses taken: 
  • Computer Networks
  • DBA (Emphasis on Oracle)
  • Security and Usability
  • Statistics
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Certificate B Unix Systems Administration

Certifications: 

• Snowflake - Advanced
• AWS - Fundamentals
• Master Cert – Data Management , Governance, Security and Ethics
• Oracle Architecture 7,8,9, 10, 11g – including RAC architecture
• SCRUM
• Idle Training
• OBIEE Training (Rittman and Mead)
• CASE*Method Entity Relationship Modeling
• Oracle DBA 7.3-10
• Oracle, Complex Query, System Administration
• Informatica