Let’s build something trustworthy together.
I work with regulated businesses in Australia as a fractional data leader — bringing 15+ years of hands-on experience in healthcare, insurance, and enterprise data platforms without the overhead of a full-time hire.
What I bring
Senior Data Governance & AI Governance Lead | Healthcare · Financial Services · Insurance | Available Immediately in Sydney. 15+ years designing and embedding enterprise data governance frameworks, data quality controls, and governance operating models across HIPAA-regulated healthcare, APRA-regulated financial services, and insurance environments in the US, Germany, India, and Australia. ISO 42001 AI Lead Implementer certified (Jun 2026) - extending that same governance discipline into AI risk assessment, model oversight, and responsible-AI operating models, alongside CDMP (DAMA-DMBOK, in progress, Aug 2026).
I sit at the intersection of governance leadership and technical depth. I can own the governance program, present a roadmap to a CIO/COO, and go deep enough into the platform to write the validation rules myself - equally comfortable in a board-level risk forum and an engineering standup.
Healthcare & regulated data governance: 5+ years as Senior Technical Specialist / Client Delivery Lead at CitiusTech (Chicago), embedded across payer and provider platforms covering Revenue Cycle Management, EMR/EHR, and clinical data flows. Designed and enforced enterprise data lifecycle management controls, reducing recurring data quality issues by 70% across HIPAA, HL7, and X12-regulated environments.
What I bring to any engagement:
▸ Governance Frameworks: CDEs, data ownership & stewardship models, data lineage, metadata standards, data dictionaries, governance forums - embedded from Day 0 ▸ AI Governance: ISO 42001 (AI Management Systems), AI risk assessment & monitoring, responsible AI principles, awareness of NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act ▸ Regulatory depth: HIPAA · HL7 · X12 · APRA / CPG 235 · Australian Privacy Act · DAMA-DMBOK (CDMP in progress) ▸ Executive stakeholder management: governance forum facilitation, executive dashboards, CIO and VP engagement across regulated environments ▸ Data quality uplift: automated validation frameworks, anomaly detection, reconciliation controls, audit-ready reporting ▸ Modern data stack: Databricks · dbt · Snowflake · Azure Data Factory · AWS · GCP · Python · SQL · applied AI/LLM (LangChain, RAG, MLflow)
Most recent engagements: → APRA-regulated insurer, Sydney (Europ Assistance Australia, part of Generali - now Redion): Designed an automated validation and monitoring framework, cross-validating claims against policy records and legacy systems, intercepting quality failures before they reached compliance and actuarial reporting - eliminating 8–12 hours of manual compliance work per week.
Who I work with
Organisations in healthcare, insurance, and financial services in Australia who are:
- Building or maturing a data platform
- Navigating regulatory compliance (Privacy Act, APRA, APRA CPS 234)
- Struggling with data quality or trust in their reporting
- Preparing for an audit or compliance review
- Looking for senior data leadership between permanent hires
Get in touch
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Based in Sydney. Available for on-site, hybrid, or remote engagements across Australia and USA.