Don Watters

About Don Watters

An accomplished data professional, working in architecture, administrative and…

Experience

1. Distinguished Data Architect (Sr Director)

   eBay

   Sep 2021 — Present

   Lead eBay technology for Governance (including Information, Data and AI Governance), advising C-level and domain executives across corporate, business, technology and operations functions, including contract, privacy, compliance, vendor management, records retention, InfoSec and the technology teams that provide solutions for managing data and information governance in adjacent functions. Architect the technical solutions for the Data Governance Platform, including search, knowledge graph, machine learning (NLP, NER), quality, lineage, metadata, policy automation, data provenance and heritage and the integration between the manifold metadata stores existing across the company. Provide an end-to-end solution for managing and understanding eBay\'s obligations to our customers, jurisdictional regulatory obligations and the business.

Education

• Pierce College

  AAS, Computer Science, General Studies

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Software Development
• Big Data
• Web Applications
• Linux
• Cloud Computing
• Etl
• Performance Tuning
• Agile Methodologies
• Olap
• Enterprise Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Data Mining
• Analytics
• Data Warehousing
• T-Sql
• Architecture
• Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Database Design
• Ssis
• Mysql
• Architectures
• Management
• Enterprise Software
• System Architecture
• Xml
• Solution Architecture
• Scrum
• Web Services
• Software Design
• High Availability
• Software Engineering
• Software Project Management
• Unix
• Ssrs
• Sql
• Distributed Systems
• Oracle
• Data Integration
• Databases