Steve Sims

Background

About Steve Sims

With over 20 years of experience successfully driving digital transformation for companies large and small, I bring the leadership, expertise and negotiation skills required to help business and IT leaders truly partner to use data effectively for their organizations. I understand the trade-offs and challenges involved and am passionate about the change management that must occur to redefine how people manage and access information to drive the business forward.I excel at juggling the possible and the practical, and mentor high-performance teams, both internal and external, to embrace that challenge. This leads to better solutions and lasting change for my clients as they move along the continuum of data and analytic solutions as a business imperative to a core competency or strategic initiative.Known for strong communication and leadership, my specialties include- Data foundation and analytics strategy, prioritization, roadmap definition and execution- Change leadership, business engagement, account management- Enterprise/cross-functional engagement, demand management, strategy alignment- Integrated business process, data, technology and organization engagement model- Practice/team/people management, strategic initiative/program/project management- Agile delivery flexibility with benefits attainment- Self-service information access to consistent reporting, metrics, analytics- Pragmatic data management, data governance ownership and stewardship, data catalog- Enterprise data platform and architecture, modernization to cloud technologiesIndustry experience includes: Oil & Gas, Railcar, Consumer Products, Automotive, Healthcare, Government, Food Service, Financial Services, Professional Services