Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Tim Alexander, Director of Technical Product Marketing, Yellowbrick Data, What started as a six-year-old's fascination with paleontology evolved into dreams of becoming a music industry power player. Armed with a business & technology degree and talent agency internships, he dove headfirs...
Aug 13, 2025•38 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Monica Miller, Senior Product Manager, Starburst Data, she shares how a personal physical challenge first sparked her interest in audiology, and how a pivotal college internship completely shifted her trajectory from mechanical engineering to the dynamic world of data. Discover the unexpected...
Aug 06, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Dia Adams, Enterprise Data/AI Strategist, TCG Incorporated , about her fascination in becoming a Supreme Court Justice as a child, later redirecting drive towards finance in high school, and ultimately discovering a passion for data and AI in university. Never miss an episode – subscribe to t...
Jul 09, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Christina Sandema-Sombe, CEO Christina Sandema-Sombe DBA LLC and Co-Founder & CDAIO Datum Cafe, about her aptitude for science in Zambia & focus to becoming a doctor but with the help of mentors altering her career path to becoming a leader of not one but two data centered companies. ...
Jun 11, 2025•49 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Jacqueline Paneque, Head of Data Literacy & Data Quality, TE Information Solutions , about how she went from loving arts & crafts as a child with data not even on her radar to becoming the leading person in her company to raise data literacy and quality. Never miss an episode – subscr...
May 07, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Eric Polet, Director of Product Marketing at Arcitecta, about how he went from not knowing the difference between a petabyte and terabyte into becoming the Director of Product Marketing for a premiere data management software company. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekl...
Apr 23, 2025•21 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Michel Morgan, General Counsel of Operations, Universal P&C Insurance Company, about how she followed her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and then learned to incorporate data management to ease her team's burden. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter ...
Apr 09, 2025•38 min
Welcome back to an all-new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Michael Meyer, Solutions Engineer at Snowflake, about how he turned his early interest in weather to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Snowflake. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn . Interested in being a guest?...
Apr 02, 2025•29 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Peter Vennel, the Global Data Office Leader at Equifax, about how he went from an interest in coding to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Equifax . Connect with Peter on LinkedIn . Interested in being a guest?...
Feb 12, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Welcome back to an all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Sandesh Gawande, the CTO and Founder of iceDQ, about how he turned his talent for building things into a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about iceDQ . Connect with Sandesh or iceDQ on LinkedIn. Interested in being a guest?...
Jan 15, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Welcome back to and all new season or My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we're talking with Dr. Suman Mathur, a Senior Lecturer at Regenesys Business School, about how education fuels her career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Connect with Dr. Mathur on LinkedIn . Explore the Lrn&Shr platform . Interested in being a guest?...
Jan 08, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Kiomi Soledad Spriestersbach, the Head of Data Quality and Governance at Lufthansa Group, about how she translated an interest in mathematics and languages to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Lufthansa Group . Search careers at L...
Dec 18, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we're talking to Ramla Suhra, the Senior Staff Software Engineer at H-E-B, about how she translated an early interested in how things work to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about H-E-B . Interested in being a guest?...
Dec 11, 2024•22 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Gloria Zukauskaite, an Advisory Board Member at Inox Fintech, about how she went from an interest in social work to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Inox Fintech . Interested in being a guest?...
Dec 04, 2024•28 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Ben Little, the CEO of Bloomfire, about how he managed to be both a cowboy and build a career in data! Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Bloomfire . Connect with Ben on LinkedIn . Interested in being a guest?...
Nov 27, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we're talking with Susan Lin, the Director of Data, Analytics, and Business Intelligence at Cornell University about how she went from a data entry job to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Cornell University . Interested in being a guest?...
Nov 20, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Pragyansmita Nayak, the Chief Data Scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal, about her journey to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Connect Pragyansmita on LinkedIn . Learn more about Hitachi Vantara Federal . Interested in being a guest?...
Nov 13, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Ngan MacDonald, the Director of Data Innovation at Mathematica and the Chief of Data Operations at The Institute for AI in Medicine at Northwestern University, about how she transitioned from originally wanting to study economics to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY ...
Nov 06, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Patrick Danial, the Co-Founder and CTO at Terakeet, about how he built his early entrepreneurship into a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Terakeet. Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn . Interested in being a guest?...
Oct 30, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Dr. Bridget Bratt, the Associate Director of Data Protection Strategy at Protiviti, about how she followed her curiosity from a early desire to work in fashion journalism to a career in data! Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Connect with Dr. Bratt on LinkedIn . Le...
Oct 23, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Alyssa Lien, a Fraud Data Scientist at The Standard, about how she followed her curiosity from an early interest in pathology to a career in data! Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about The Standard . Connect with Alyssa on LinkedIn . Interested in bein...
Oct 16, 2024•30 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Mike Schumacher, the Founder of Lakeside Software, about how he turned his love for mathematics into a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Lakeside Software . Interested in being a guest?...
Oct 02, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with John Lieto, the Director of Data Management at CT Corporation, about how his career in music transformed into a career in data! Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about CT Corporation . Connect with John on LinkedIn . Interested in being a guest?...
Sep 25, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Darrel Haswell, the Director of Product Management, Data & AI, at IBM, about how he started as an intern and continued to build his career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about IBM's Data & AI solutions . Interested in being a guest?...
Sep 18, 2024•25 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Joanna Kennedy, the Global Group Data Governance Officer at Fullsight, about how she built a successful career in marketing before transitioning to data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Fullsight . Learn more about PrivacyConnect . Learn more abo...
Sep 11, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we're speaking with Christine Haskell, the founder of Christine Haskell Consulting, LLC, about how she took her English degree to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Christine Haskell Consulting, LLC . Buy Christine's book . Interested in being ...
Aug 21, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Samantha Clarke, now the Vice President of Channel and Partnerships at VDURA, about how she followed her curiosity and passion to a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Production note: Since recording her interview, Samantha began a new position as th...
Aug 14, 2024•23 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Dr. Daniel Parshall, the Principal Data Scientist at Lakeside Software, about how he changed his direction and built a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Lakeside Software . Interested in being a guest?...
Aug 07, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we talk with Bobbie Shrivastav, the Co-Founder and COO of Benekiva, about how she translated her desire to solve problems into a career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Benekiva on the company website or LinkedIn page . Connect with Bobbie on LinkedIn...
Jul 31, 2024•37 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Welcome back to season two of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This week we chat with Cher Fox, the President of Fox Consulting about how she built her career in data. Never miss an episode – subscribe to the DATAVERSITY weekly newsletter . Learn more about Fox Consulting . Connect with Cher on LinkedIn . Interested in being a guest?...
Jul 24, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 24
