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Resumes
August 13, 2026
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Real-world data governance resume examples across insurance, consulting, healthcare, and retail, with the catalogue coverage, data quality, stewardship, and audit results that data leaders look for.
Lionel Haskett
(414) 555-0186 ◇ Milwaukee, WI
lionel.haskett@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/lionel-haskett ◇ lionelhaskett.com
Objective
Data governance lead with 10 years in data management, currently leading the data governance programme for an insurance company with $5B in premium and 7,000 employees. Built a data catalogue covering 14,000 data assets, raised data quality scores on critical data elements from 81% to 96%, and set up a stewardship network of 65 data stewards. Makes governance practical so business teams trust and use their data.
Education
M.S. in Information Management, Cream City Line University 2014 – 2016
Coursework in Data Management, Information Policy, Database Design, and Business Analytics.
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), Practitioner, DAMA International 2020
Also holds the Collibra Ranger certification for data catalogue administration.
Skills
Data Governance
Governance frameworks and operating models, data policies and standards, stewardship programmes, data ownership, critical data elements, governance councils
Data Quality and Metadata
Data catalogues, business glossaries, data lineage, data quality rules and scorecards, issue management, master data basics
Risk and Compliance
Privacy regulations, data classification, retention rules, regulatory reporting data controls, audit support, access governance
Tools & Platforms
Collibra, Informatica Data Quality, Snowflake, SQL, Power BI, Microsoft Purview, Jira, Confluence
Experience
Data Governance Lead 05/2022 – Present
Lake Michigan Crown Insurance Milwaukee, WI
- Lead the governance programme for an insurer with $5B in premium and 7,000 employees with a team of 4.
- Built a Collibra data catalogue covering 14,000 data assets used by about 1,500 staff.
- Raised data quality scores on 220 critical data elements from 81% to 96% in 3 years.
Data Quality Manager 03/2019 – 04/2022
Third Ward Line Bank Milwaukee, WI
- Built 600 data quality rules in Informatica for regulatory and finance reporting data.
- Cut data issues found during regulatory reporting from about 40 a quarter to 6.
- Mapped lineage for 35 regulatory reports from source systems to final figures.
Data Analyst 07/2016 – 02/2019
Third Ward Line Bank Milwaukee, WI
- Built SQL reports for 4 business units on deposits, loans, and customer data.
- Found duplicate customer records affecting about 3% of accounts and led the clean-up.
- Wrote the first business glossary for the bank with 300 defined terms.
Projects
Enterprise Data Catalogue. Rolled out Collibra with automated metadata harvesting from 40 systems, a business glossary of 1,800 terms, and lineage for key reports, which reached 14,000 catalogued assets and cut time to find trusted data from days to minutes.
Critical Data Element Programme. Identified 220 critical data elements with business owners, set quality rules and scorecards for each, and ran monthly issue reviews, which raised quality scores from 81% to 96%.
Data Steward Network. Built a network of 65 data stewards across 12 business areas with training, role guides, and quarterly forums, which resolved about 400 data issues a year closer to the source.
Extra-Curricular Activities
- Board member of a regional DAMA chapter, organising 4 data management events a year.
- Speaker on practical data governance at 2 data management conferences since 2023.
- Volunteer data adviser to a local food bank on its donor and client data.
Leadership
- Lead a governance team of 4 and a network of 65 data stewards.
- Run the data governance council of 10 business and technology leaders every month.
- Report governance progress to the chief data officer and risk committee each quarter.
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