Tuesday, April 25, 2006

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Level: Intermediate

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a large federal government agency with a critical mission - making air travel safe both nationally and internationally. The quality and reliability of FAA's information and data resources are vital to air traffic management, aircraft & pilot certification, and other aviation safety functions. As with many organizations, information sharing and data management activities have been challenged by cultural influences and the powerful empires within the agency. This presentation will discuss: the early FAA data management initiatives within a limited portion of the agency; the program's expansion into international and interagency disciplines; and its current transition into a true enterprise-wide information / data management program. Also included will be discussions on what helped to break down the empire walls, governance, and other lessons learned along the way.

Ms. Young is one of the leading proponents of sound information management principles and practices, and enterprise-wide information stewardship. Her professional objective is to provide leadership in improving, safeguarding, and effectively leveraging information resources within the global aerospace community. As the FAA Data Registrar, in the FAA Office of Information Services and Chief Information Officer, she is responsible for the implementation of the FAA's Enterprise Data Management Program. She is also leading international efforts in data standardization and data quality improvement of aviation safety information. Ms. Young is cofounder and leader of an interagency organization - the Federal Metadata Management Consortium (FMMC). The FMMC is focused on implementing sound metadata management practices and sharing metadata management resources across the federal government. Ms. Young's professional experience spans over two decades of progressively increasing technical and theoretical challenges within the information service industry. During the course of her career, Diana has provided a wide variety of information resource management services both in the private and public sectors. She has specialized in the areas of information /data management program and policy definition, information stewardship and quality program development, and information quality assessment and improvement practices. She has provided both educational and practical support in strategic information resource management planning, information architecture definition, enterprise modeling, metadata definition and management, information stewardship, and enterprise information/data quality analysis.