George Halkias

About George Halkias

Enterprise Data Catalog, Data Warehouse, Big Data, and Data Model experience. Transformed businesses by jumping to excellence using data & metadata-driven business capability approach to achieve exceptional business value that uses data and data stewards to correctly answer questions. Career growth spent in managing initiatives with the right mix of vision, commitment and caution. Ability to handle uncertainty with optimism and enthusiasm. Openness to a multitude of cultural differences, meaningful collaboration, and a spirit of restless reinvention using broader and deeper thinking about information and technology. Acting as a data architect and consultant to support business partner initiatives, I start with a focus on technology solutions needed to support outcomes recognizing that data discovery is ever-evolving within the operating model. Specialties- Creating positive business outcomes through the use of quality fact-based information, governance and analytics- Building discovery and analytic capabilities to support stakeholders in a hybrid data landscape to ascertain what\'s working and why, and areas that need attention- Developed agility by speeding delivery of data-as-a-service to enable people to make decisions quicker in a changing environment of belt-tightening, performance and critical mass- Developed Data Catalog platform service speeding data discovery, quality, stewardship and collaboration to prioritize those roles needed for people to discover data assets, similarities and links to business terminology to increase agility- Developed Data Modeling platform service for managing data models using a business capability framework for data sharing, stewardship, agile methods and data store implementations- Building organizational trust through collaboration, relationships and endorsements- Awareness of Compliance regulations to identify and classify sensitive data.

Experience

1. Information Technology Manager

   Johnson & Johnson

   Jan 2000 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Developed enterprise platform metadata strategy. Established business capability models for Enterprise Data Warehouse. Created data governance in a variety of business domains and platforms maintaining a consistent data model across platforms – Data Lake, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Master Data Management & in-Memory platforms. Hands-on business and line management experience. Strategic planning combined with technical knowledge.

Education

• Syracuse University

  Graduate studies, Telecommunications

• University of Phoenix

  Graduate Studies, Technology Management

• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  BS, Mathematics

Skills

• Cognos
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Data Quality
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data Center
• Management
• Big Data
• Data Migration
• Master Data Management
• Information Technology
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Business Intelligence
• Data Modeling
• Eai
• Data Management
• Data Warehousing
• Data Integration
• Software Project Management
• Analytics
• IT Management
• Database Design
• Project Management
• Metadata Management
• Integration
• Data Governance
• IT Strategy
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Informatica
• Business Analysis
• Requirements Analysis