Thomas Chong

Product Owner

San Jose, California, United States

About

Lead various technical and business objectives within data, particularly with data warehousing and data platform coupled with data access, tools, and data sets.

Experience

  • Data Product Owner at Pacific Gas and Electric Company
    Jun 2024 - Nov 2024 · 6 mos

  • Product Owner at NBCUniversal
    Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 · 7 mos

    Lead a strategic initiative to build out a comprehensive Data Mesh catalog platform with Collibra as core metadata repository and data governance. * Source metadata across the enterprise (Primarily focused on snowflake and S3) into Collibra as a central metadata platform for efficiency. * Build out data governance workflows to certify data and provision access for the Data Governance team. * Provide views for easy downloading Snowflake and S3 metadata Collibra (SAAS) Api’s to allow applications to integrate from a single source for metadata.

  • Data Product Manager at eBay
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Data Product Owner Lead a strategic initiative to build a self service data governance application reading Hadoop files which automatically validates GDPR, CCPA, and Privacy rules and remedies datasets which significantly reduced engineering involvement (80%). * Interpret regulatory rules with privacy and legal teams to build into the self service governance application. * Build out data producer workflows which allows automation of data governance requirements. * Build out a comprehensive compliance reporting and status for data producers and managers. * Own yearly objectives and translate them into quarterly and monthly objectives. * Provide engineering requirements through agile methodologies (JIRA) * Run Sprint planning and retrospectives as scrum master. * Interpret requirements and convert them into stories for development to implement. * Coordinate with data producers and engineers to adopt through brown bag sessions. Coordinate and represent data sets to ensure Sox audits are compliant. * Provide proofs and documentation based on Sox audit requirements. Separately, lead an effort to enrich personalization capabilities with 3rd party customer data to increase accuracy for targeting by 10%. * Lead a cross functional team to evaluate data accuracy as a prerequisite to purchase 3rd party data. * Incorporate 3rd party personalized data into growth and ads campaigns to measure success (ie CTR, Conversions).

  • Data Product Manager and Governance Officer at LogMeIn
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2022 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Data Product Manager *Usage tagging product manager As a Data Product Manager, define and build a set of api’s to log consumer activities on the corporate website while honoring regulatory and privacy laws. * Lead to define a set of api’s to be delivered as a package for product teams to incorporate to consistently capture user data (ie KEY - Value concept). * Light quality check via Kibana to ensure data is coming through the data pipeline. * Set up data pipelines from logs to ingest into the data warehouse working with data producers. * Provide a set of data sets to BI teams to build metrics and dashboards. Data governance product manager, compliance As a data governance manager, represent the data warehouse to ensure data is compliant according to data regulations (GDPR, CCPA). * Ensure the data sets that land in the data warehouse (Amazon S3) are compliant according to data governance regulations (PI, PII, “right to be forgotten”). * Built a product to standardize metadata to identify sensitive elements (PI, PII). * Implement workflows to validate and remedy data elements that are out of compliance. * Light SQL (Hive, Athena, Redshift) to extract PI, PII elements for compliance reasons. Coordinate and represent data sets to ensure Sox audits are compliant. * Provide proofs and documentation based on Sox audit requirements. * IAM proofs and logs files are generally provided

  • Product Manager at Yahoo, Inc
    Mar 2004 - Dec 2017 · 13 yrs 10 mos

    Product owner Search Experimentation platform Product Manager. * Enable advertising and product teams to run experiments (A/B testing) to maximize time spent, ad views, and increase conversion. * Lead building out methods to segment users which allows for running multiple experiments at once. Infrastructure Product Manager. * Lead to build hadoop based data query tool for end users for analysts. * Build out instrumentation platform to allow for defined user tagging on the www. Included is a set of php based apis for easy tagging. * Brought in a set of IP based data sets which improved accuracy by 5% for marketers to introduce geo targeting capabilities. * Owned and managed a set of Data Dimension products. Sets dimensions serve as a basis to define businesses and product categories.