Peter Veenstra

About Peter Veenstra

Pete offers 30+ years of consulting, database design, and system implementation…

Experience

1. Director of Data Governance

   Terracon

   Jan 2025 — Present · Olathe, KS, US

   Peter defines, owns, leads, and executes the Data Governance program at Terracon by setting the standards for data quality, integrity, security, and privacy across the organization. He is comfortable establishing priorities and direction of the Data Governance Program at a strategic (establishing direction) and tactical (providing detailed guidance, and troubleshooting) level. Other responsibilities include:• Drive data governance initiatives and lead the establishment of a Data Governance Program within Terracon. • Develop the enterprise data governance structure; establish a data governance committee and define data governance roles, accountability and ownership, and decision rights; lead realization of data as an asset. • Define the system of record as a \"single -source of truth\" for each data element; resolve multiple sources of truth issues with key stakeholders via clear definitions of elements. • Implement best practices for management, manipulation and capture of the high- quality data. • Work in conjunction with Executive Leadership and liaise with multiple business and support teams across the global enterprise on complex data governance projects and to prioritize most critical data governance issues and initiatives ensuring that they align with business objectives. • Define and communicate Data Governance roles, accountability, ownership, decision rights, and responsibilities.• Collaborates with the business units to ensure data ownership and quality by identifying and training data owners and data stewards. • Works with organizational Chief Information Security Office (CISO) on cybersecurity to ensure data asset inventory and security. • Drive organizational behavior change as it relates to the use of data; realizing vision of data managed as an asset.

Education

• Sir Sandford Fleming College

  Diploma, Geographic Information Systems

  1991 — 1992

• University of Waterloo

  Bachelor of Environment Studies B.E.S. (Honours), Geography

  1985 — 1991

• The University of Edinburgh

  M.Sc., Geographic Information Systems

  1993 — 1994

Skills

• Spatial Databases
• Esri
• Gis
• Geodatabase
• Arcgis
• Arcsde
• Data Management
• Piping
• Geomatics
• Cloud Consulting
• Cloud Computing
• Geography
• Spatial Analysis
• Surveying
• Database Design
• Arcview
• Gps
• Pipelines
• Requirements Analysis
• Arcinfo
• Databases
• Cartography
• Web Mapping
• Arccatalog
• Arcgis Server
• Geoprocessing
• Remote Sensing
• Arcobjects
• Fme
• Lidar
• Data Mapping
• Arcims
• Google Earth
• Spatial Data Management
• Erdas Imagine
• Oracle Spatial
• Photogrammetry
• Data Modeling
• Python
• Database Admin