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Melody Chien
Sr Director Analyst
Melody Chien is a Senior Research Director with Gartner's Data Management team. Ms. Chien's research includes the best practice for building effective data quality programs, and data and analytics strategies. She also covers Data Quality Tools market and provides vendor evaluations.
Ms. Chien has over 24 years of experience in data management and BI analytics. She spent most of these years in California Silicon Valley in U.S. and worked on big-sized data management projects in large organizations, such as SAP and PayPal, where she has built professional expertise in data and analytics management.
Previous experience
Prior to her current role, Ms. Chien built Enterprise Data Warehouse and Analytics platform. She provided technical oversight in enterprise data warehouse architecture, data modeling, data capacity planning, data analysis and data visualization best practice. She also set up standard, procedures and policy of IT practices and provided business insight from data assets.
Professional background
Lenovo
Director of Enterprise Data Management
Western Union
Sr. Technical Service Delivery Manager
SAP America
Sr. Service Advisor
Areas of coverage
Data and Analytics Leaders
Data Management Solutions
Analytics, BI and Data Science Solutions
Data and Analytics Programs and Practices
Education
M.S., Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
B.S., Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Best practices, programs, and strategies in data quality
2Data quality tool market trend and vendor/tool selections
3Data management strategies, market trends, and vendors
4Vendors for Metadata management solutions, data catalog, and metadata use cases
5Data observability and DataOps technologies and practices