Leader in Data Strategy
I build the systems that make data and AI functions scale — the infrastructure, governance, and decision architecture behind them.
Melanie sits at a rare intersection: technical enough to architect cloud platforms and geospatial data models, strategic enough to align $10B+ capital investment decisions, and operator-minded enough to care about what happens after the engagement ends. Her edge isn't chasing new tools — it's building the machinery that produces better answers, safer automation, and more durable decisions at scale.
Built backend systems before building analytics strategies — a platform-level understanding of data most analytics leaders lack.
A decade of concentrated experience — OSS/BSS, network operations, spectrum, MSO customer operations. She arrives with the domain.
FCC compliance, automated governance frameworks, KPI systems — analytics that are auditable and operable, not just insightful.
Hands-on competency in agentic AI systems, harness platforms, evaluation workflows, and human-in-the-loop operating models.
Selected Work
Designed the enterprise data strategy and target-state architecture, unifying fragmented OSS/BSS systems into a single source of truth across network, asset, and location data.
Defined the AI enablement strategy — use cases, data foundations, governance guardrails, and workflow patterns to move from experimentation to production-scale decision support.
Architected a GCP-based data foundation giving executive leadership real-time visibility into network availability, informing a copper-to-fiber migration program.
Applied geospatial modeling and capital allocation analysis to identify optimal deployment paths for unserved and underserved communities.
Led data integration for a spectrum management platform — a custom geospatial model supporting rules-engine intake, deployed immediately post-close.
Designed the scoring architecture behind a pre-sales qualification platform that concentrated capital where return was highest.
Experience
Owns data strategy, AI/ML infrastructure, applied AI enablement, and digital transformation programs across Tier 1 telecom, fiber, and media environments — leading cross-functional teams.
Owned data strategy and analytics infrastructure across major cable, telecom, and media environments — building platforms that moved capital at scale and drove post-acquisition integration.
Built an automated analytics platform for a major cable operator's wireless product launch — owning BI architecture, KPI frameworks, and executive reporting.
Built and optimized backend infrastructure for federal logistics and communications programs — scaling to support 160B transactions per year across 6 major release cycles.
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