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Kristen Valentine
Legal Counsel at Humana
Louisville, KY, United States
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Education:
Doctor of Law (JD)
Public Interest Law
Brooklyn Law School
2006 : 2010
Master of Arts (MA), Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Pan-African Studies
University of Louisville
2000 : 2006
Public Interest Law
Brooklyn Law School
2006 : 2010
Master of Arts (MA), Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Pan-African Studies
University of Louisville
2000 : 2006
Experience:
• Advise cross-enterprise teams such as Enterprise Information Protection, Procurement, Data Governance and Risk Management, and IT on data uses to manage legal risk and ensure regulatory compliance
• Partner with information protection team(s) on security-related issues such as risk assessments and incident response
• Review data access agreements, information security agreements, statements of work, and master services agreements
• Provide legal privacy and cyber security advice on data sharing, including intracompany, mergers and acquisitions, and 3rd/4th party sourced data
2022 : Present
Humana
Legal Counsel, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
• Led software development teams responsible for platform and data engineering in support of advanced analytics utilizing technologies such as the Microsoft Azure stack, DataBricks, AWS, Hadoop, Oracle, SAS, and Netezza
• Built consensus across diverse areas of the company including engineering, business, privacy, security, legal, and data governance to align on strategic technology decisions for data movement and data product creation
• Advised and guided senior executives on cloud adoption and enterprise data strategy by balancing aspirational goals and realistic delivery timelines
• Optimized and managed cloud cost to ensure efficient operations and reduce spend
• Recruited and grew technology talent, with a particular focus on college interns
2018 : 2022
Humana
Technology Director, Advanced Analytics Engineering and Data Integration
• Drove the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of Humana’s cloud migration of Sitecore-based web applications to Azure.
• Worked closely with 3rd party technology partners to implement Sitecore on Azure in accordance with best practices and cross-industry standards.
• Identified and capitalized on opportunities to match business goals with IT objectives to improve reliability, resiliency, quality, and speed to market.
• Collaborated with leaders in Solutions Engineering, Business Technology Leadership, Digital Center of Excellence, and IT Infrastructure to define strategic direction for the digital application portfolio, which includes 20+ mission-critical applications.
• Led large teams to build and refine estimates for proposed or assigned work and capabilities to be delivered in the web portals and framework space.
• Recruited and retained intelligent, driven, curious technical talent with the goal of maintaining a high-performing, innovative team.
• Defined, tracked, and reported delivery commitments to stakeholders and senior leaders across functional areas.
• Ensured that the work of the teams met standards for quality and security.
• Managed the application lifecycle and architectural documentation for technology and applications owned by the team.
• Served as a DevOps Advocate to support teams in adoption of DevOps practices, allowing them to deliver at a faster velocity with higher quality.
• Consulted with Service Assurance team to optimize and streamline Change Management process and procedures.
• Champion continuous delivery and automation in the release management space to reduce risk around production deployments and increase realization of value.
2015 : 2018
Humana
Technology Manager
• Managed project implementation including requirements definition, design, vendor procurement, installation of hardware and software, security scanning, and performance testing.
• Maintained resource plans that aligned project deliverables with development capacity.
• Partnered with business to define the strategic objectives for Humana’s Marketing Portals program.
• Coordinated production turns across Digital IT and championed continuous integration best practices.
• Regulated the constraints of the project parameters, of cost, time, scope, & quality.
• Created detailed project plan documents and task-level assignments to organize cross-functional teams, including monitoring work efforts, identifying resource needs, performing quality review, status reporting, and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
• Tracked key project milestones and adjusted project plans and/or resources to meet needs.
• Communicated impacts to scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort being managed.
2014 : 2015
Humana
Web Portal Technology Project Manager
• Lead teams of developers in the delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet business needs.
• Created detailed project design documents and task-level project plans to organize cross-functional teams.
• Partnered closely with other members of functional project teams to define business requirements.
• Defined test plans and ensured that products are defect free before User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitated the Systems Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing process and, developed rollout plans and procedures.
2014 : 2014
Humana
Scrum Master
• Partner with information protection team(s) on security-related issues such as risk assessments and incident response
• Review data access agreements, information security agreements, statements of work, and master services agreements
• Provide legal privacy and cyber security advice on data sharing, including intracompany, mergers and acquisitions, and 3rd/4th party sourced data
2022 : Present
Humana
Legal Counsel, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
• Led software development teams responsible for platform and data engineering in support of advanced analytics utilizing technologies such as the Microsoft Azure stack, DataBricks, AWS, Hadoop, Oracle, SAS, and Netezza
• Built consensus across diverse areas of the company including engineering, business, privacy, security, legal, and data governance to align on strategic technology decisions for data movement and data product creation
• Advised and guided senior executives on cloud adoption and enterprise data strategy by balancing aspirational goals and realistic delivery timelines
• Optimized and managed cloud cost to ensure efficient operations and reduce spend
• Recruited and grew technology talent, with a particular focus on college interns
2018 : 2022
Humana
Technology Director, Advanced Analytics Engineering and Data Integration
• Drove the strategy, architecture, development, and delivery of Humana’s cloud migration of Sitecore-based web applications to Azure.
• Worked closely with 3rd party technology partners to implement Sitecore on Azure in accordance with best practices and cross-industry standards.
• Identified and capitalized on opportunities to match business goals with IT objectives to improve reliability, resiliency, quality, and speed to market.
• Collaborated with leaders in Solutions Engineering, Business Technology Leadership, Digital Center of Excellence, and IT Infrastructure to define strategic direction for the digital application portfolio, which includes 20+ mission-critical applications.
• Led large teams to build and refine estimates for proposed or assigned work and capabilities to be delivered in the web portals and framework space.
• Recruited and retained intelligent, driven, curious technical talent with the goal of maintaining a high-performing, innovative team.
• Defined, tracked, and reported delivery commitments to stakeholders and senior leaders across functional areas.
• Ensured that the work of the teams met standards for quality and security.
• Managed the application lifecycle and architectural documentation for technology and applications owned by the team.
• Served as a DevOps Advocate to support teams in adoption of DevOps practices, allowing them to deliver at a faster velocity with higher quality.
• Consulted with Service Assurance team to optimize and streamline Change Management process and procedures.
• Champion continuous delivery and automation in the release management space to reduce risk around production deployments and increase realization of value.
2015 : 2018
Humana
Technology Manager
• Managed project implementation including requirements definition, design, vendor procurement, installation of hardware and software, security scanning, and performance testing.
• Maintained resource plans that aligned project deliverables with development capacity.
• Partnered with business to define the strategic objectives for Humana’s Marketing Portals program.
• Coordinated production turns across Digital IT and championed continuous integration best practices.
• Regulated the constraints of the project parameters, of cost, time, scope, & quality.
• Created detailed project plan documents and task-level assignments to organize cross-functional teams, including monitoring work efforts, identifying resource needs, performing quality review, status reporting, and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
• Tracked key project milestones and adjusted project plans and/or resources to meet needs.
• Communicated impacts to scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort being managed.
2014 : 2015
Humana
Web Portal Technology Project Manager
• Lead teams of developers in the delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet business needs.
• Created detailed project design documents and task-level project plans to organize cross-functional teams.
• Partnered closely with other members of functional project teams to define business requirements.
• Defined test plans and ensured that products are defect free before User Acceptance Testing.
• Facilitated the Systems Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing process and, developed rollout plans and procedures.
2014 : 2014
Humana
Scrum Master
Company:
Humana
Years of Experience:
16
Spoken Language:
English
Skills
Content Development, Content Management, Criminal Law, Digital Media, Editing, Editorial, HTML, Leadership, Legal Research, Online Publishing, Policy Analysis, Project Management, Proofreading, Publications, Public Policy, Publishing, Research, Social Media, Writing, XML
About
Technology changes lives and perhaps most inspiring is its capacity to bring people closer in new and dynamic ways. My academic training is in law and policy, but my career has been leading engineering teams to deliver cloud solutions in the healthcare industry where data protection is paramount. This multi-disciplinary background has sharpened my ability to connect the dots across multiple functional areas in a way that marries strategy to execution and builds consensus across technical and non-technical teams. I understand engineering practices, operating mission-critical systems at scale, product management, data governance, and security, as well as leading diverse, high-performing teams.
Specialties: Enterprise Data Strategy, Cloud Adoption & Migration, Mentoring and Talent Development, Data and Technology Strategy in a Highly Regulated Industry
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