About Me
Cortney Worthy is a passionate Enterprise Data Leader skilled at leading cross functional teams to optimize business processes and solve enterprise challenges. She specializes in leading teams that interface with technology to develop and mature data governance and data management capabilities with practical processes and business-oriented solutions.
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Trusted Senior Data Governance & Privacy advisor to C-level executives who transforms business problems into business solutions to improve operations, compliance, support corporate strategy, and drive business growth
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Business Strategist with deep technical acumen and extensive experience in developing and driving strategy of data management, data governance, data privacy, and business intelligence solutions
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Expertise in building high-performance diverse teams, managing vendors, standardizing solutions, maintaining compliance, managing large-scale and complex technical projects while delivering successful results
2023 Imperative: Enabling Data Responsibility Throughout Your Organization
2023 IAPP Privacy Summit, Washington, DC
Education & Certification
University of Maryland Global Campus – Adelphi, MD
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
University of Memphis – Memphis, TN
Bachelors of Finance and Financial Management
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Issued by Project Management Institute
Privacy Engineering Certification
Issued by Data Protocol
Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer™ (CDPSE™)
Issued by ISACA
Data Science for All, Correlation One, 09/2020 – 03/2020
Learn more about Correlation One
Recent Experience
Organization: Zoom Video Communications
Role: Data Governance Compliance Leader
Summary: Led the design and alignment of the Data Governance Operating Model across the enterprise. Zoom’s Data Governance Committee consists of senior leadership across various teams to include Product, Engineering, Compliance, Security & Data Science. Defined and executed organizational roadmap for multi-year program for data governance, privacy and compliance.
Zoom Give Users More Control Over Their Data
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Data Subject Access Requests: Zoom has developed a new tool for administrators to easily reply to data subject requests for access or deletion of their personal data for Zoom Meetings, Webinars, and Team Chat.
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Data Retention: Users will have more visibility into Zoom’s data retention and deletion policies as well as the standards and actions the company is taking to align with policies.
Organization: Department of Homeland Security Agency
Role: Program Manager, Data Quality
Initiative: Support CDO in the stand-up of the Enterprise Data Quality Program, Development of the National Production Dataset, Data Standards Implementation Pilot
Organization: Department of Defense (Office of the Comptroller)
Role: Engagement Lead
Initiative: Led initial deployment of Advana with the assessment of over 200 data elements through the development of definitions, standards, governance policies, and quality assurance activities. In addition, I served as a key data advisor for Advana control testing and audit readiness activities for entities within the Department of Defense. Learn more about Data Governance, Inc.'s recent projects:
Data Trust Key to Improving Future DOD Audits
Clients: Amtrak, TSA, FAA
Initiatives: Led cross functional teams allowing organizations to effectively improve product/program management, data governance, quality, and reliability.