Dyan Chandler

Background

About Dyan Chandler

Deep experience driving the strategic development, adoption, and governance of enterprise and large-scale taxonomy, ontology, metadata, and classification platforms and solutions. Known for pioneering, vision-setting, and activation of taxonomy, ontology, and metadata products and programs. Expertise building and unifying semantic data in big tech, retail, advertising technology, and digital media taxonomies in a diverse range of information organization types (Data & AI, Search & Browse, Data Strategy, Content Retrieval, Data Governance). Exceptional relational and inter-personal skills, building bridges and partnerships in the information space through alignment and advocacy. Track record of success in cross-functional partnership across tech and business teams. Skilled in reading the room and meeting audiences where they are. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Expertise in driving the full lifecycle of taxonomy projects - both net-new and existing, including scoping and planning, use case identification, taxonomy design, build or remodel, mapping and migration, measurement, adoption and governance. Adept at solutioning for complex, multi-use-case taxonomies and semantic metadata models intended to scale. Skilled at building taxonomies and ontologies for graph-based production systems, through various methods of implementation (from offline design and transfer, to directly committing data to a graph). Seasoned in taxonomy leadership roles, managing teams of taxonomists from lean (3) to large (10+ FTEs). Experience leading in environments of high change and ambiguity, in addition to experience leading in highly operationalized environments. Leadership style focused on strength identification, situational leadership, and outcome-first mindset. Management experience includes hiring, performance management, promotion cycles, org design, leveling definition, and resource planning/roadmapping.