Elevating Data into Actionable Knowledge.
With over 25+ years of IT and high-value data experience, I transform fragmented datasets into high-value digital assets. By leveraging FAIR principles and machine intelligence, I help organizations unlock dark data and elevate it into intuitive user products, APIs, and AI-ready resources.
Strategic Expertise for Global Data Governance
Strategic Industries
Deep expertise across global sectors where data integrity is non-negotiable.
Public Sector & Gov
Governance and policy-driven data systems at national or subnational levels.
Data Stewards
Statistical agencies, data archives, research centers, and think tanks.
Data Platforms & APIs
Infrastructure for modern digital data services.
AI & Machine Intelligence
Agentic workflows, data integrations, metadata inference, and knowledge graphs.
Research & Academia
FAIR data infrastructure for global science.
Int'l Organizations
Development programs and global data exchange.
Key Capabilities
Technical mastery across the entire information lifecycle.
Metadata Driven Frameworks (FAIR/CDIF)
Architecting machine-actionable knowledge systems.
Automation & AI Pipelines
Scaling data processing with intelligent tools and agents.
API Design & Data Access
Building standard-based layers for seamless integration.
Legacy Modernization
Transforming dark data into high-value digital assets.
Core Pillars
Solving the most critical challenges in modern data governance.
Automation & AI Readiness
Your data and documentation may be "human-readable", but is likely invisible to machines.
I build high-performance APIs and metadata driven frameworks that power process automation and transform stagnant data silos into structured, machine-ready assets.
Data Quality & Trust
Lack of machine-actionable documentation, proper packaging, or privacy issues affect data sharing.
I combine specialized tools, creative programming, and AI with my data science and engineering expertise to transform your data into high-quality products, that meet the needs of data users, developers, and AI agents.
Global Interoperability
Proprietary or legacy systems build on outdated technologies that don't talk to each other.
I modernize your environment to empower data processing workflows and align with FAIR principles and international standards, ensuring your data is discoverable and integrable on a global scale.
The Technical Edge
I offer a rare combination of deep data engineering and information science expertise. I build open-source tools that power modern data management platforms, collaborate with agencies that lead standards and best practices, and support data stewards throughout their digital transformation journey, to ensure high-value data is equally accessible to both humans and machines.
Giving Back: R&D & Community
A selection of open-source projects, global standards, and innovative data initiatives I actively lead or contribute to.
Data Artifex
Open source ecosystem that elevates data into API-powered, machine-actionable digital commodity.
High-Value Data Network
Public services for discovery and access to high-value datasets.
MLCommons Croissant
Developing standard metadata formats for machine learning datasets.
CODATA CDIF
Cross-Domain Integration Framework (CDIF): Advancing interoperability for machine-actionable data.
CODATA DRUM
Digital Representation of Units of Measure (DRUM): Enhancing machine-readability of scientific data.
DDI Alliance
Strategic contribution to the Data Documentation Initiative standards ecosystem.
Ready to unleash your data?
Whether you need strategic coaching or hands-on implementation of machine-actionable data solutions, I'm looking forward to collaborating with you.