Andrew Midkiff

About Andrew Midkiff

I have mediated between technology and its users for almost 30 years, ensuring that what is built and delivered is what was truly needed. I’ve worked in, and led, teams for just about every aspect of software and product delivery in industries ranging from automotive, to oil and gas, insurance, health care and pharmaceuticals. My dedication to an agile approach reaches back over 20 years, and I’ve used this agile toolset in delivering everything from large, core business systems to alignment of corporate and IT strategies, and even processes for creating and managing prioritized enterprise portfolios. I’ve also designed and delivered complex governance and compliance frameworks in highly regulated environments, while keeping grounded to the right balance of risk/reward and cost/benefit for the different organizations. I currently apply this extensive experience to helping organizations implement Generative AI with the proper governance and attention to risk to ensure an ethical and sustainable implementation.

Experience

1. Generative Ai Governance, Risk and Compliance Consultant - Director of Pmo

   The Understanding Group Tug

   Sep 2023 — Present

   Advising small and medium businesses how to create an agile governance framework for Generative AI implementations. Keeping it focused and targeted to just what is necessary, no more and no less, helps to adapt to the rapid change in the Generative AI space, as well as address emerging risks around this new technology.Building on past experience building and leading communities of practice, I\'ve guided mission-driven organizations to create an AI Center of Excellence that can coordinate consistent training, dissiminate guidance and standards, create a community to capture lessons for accelerated, shared innovation with this quickly growing technology. The community also addressed challenges in change management, facilitates more nimble identification and mitigation of risks and serves as a focus across the organization to ensure consistency and transparency.Generative Centers of Excellence are also an excellent way to implement and monitor AI Governance with your teams, and ensure safe and responsible AI use in your organization.

Education

• Indiana University Bloomington

  Bachelor's degree, East Asian Studies

• University of Pittsburgh

  Master's degree, History of Art, East Asian Studies

• University of Michigan

  ABD (All But Dissertation), History of Art

• National Taiwan Normal University

  Certificate, Mandarin

Skills

• IT Management
• Agile
• Change Management
• Software Development
• Quality Assurance
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Business Intelligence
• Strategy
• Visio
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Business Analysis
• Mentoring
• Vendor Management
• IT Strategy
• Data Analysis
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Requirements Gathering
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Requirements Management
• Data Warehousing
• Business Requirements
• Training
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Systems Analysis
• Soa
• Business Process Improvement
• Analytics
• Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Enterprise Software
• Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Program Management
• Team Leadership
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Project Management