Begin your Data Quality Program with a Success (or if you eat the elephant a bite at a time, which byte comes first?)

Where do you begin with Data Quality? The answer is not obvious when you work in a world of third party applications mixed with home grown applications, a young Data Governance structure, tight budgets, limited resources, systems integrations in progress, no official data models, multiple DBMS platforms and operating systems, and systems users spread across 154 Schools, 86,500 students, 86,500 Parents, and over 14,000+ teachers (4700) and administrators. Here's one idea that worked and has built a solid foundation for future successes and Data Governance efforts.

This session will explore:

The plan: How we fit it in when everyone else had their own priorities.
The reality: what changed, what setbacks happened and how we handled them.
The implementation: how did we do it, how and why did we implement EARLY!
The impact: 'so what? ' Or 'WOW!'

Michael is the Manager of Data Quality in Ed Tech Support for JeffCo Schools. His background includes over 25 years in IT focusing on data, including management and technical data roles in health care, telecommunications, state government, aerospace, finance, and transportation. Michael’s MCIS is from the University of Denver: he is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) at the Mastery level. His personal life revolves around his wife, 7 children with kids, 30 years of soccer coaching, Stephen Minister responsibilities (Christian Counseling diploma), and two published books of poetry. Oh, and a dog: Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Curtis Lee is currently the Executive Director for Data Quality and Ed Tech Support with JeffCo Schools. Curtis has held numerous IT leadership positions within K-12 education over the last 25 years in organizations of various sizes and demographic makeup. He is a happily married, washed up soccer player, with two teenage children and a couple of goofy dogs