IBM Stewardship Center – What to Know as a Data Steward

Timothy Valihora is an information technology professional, with nearly 25 years of experience in technical architecture, data warehousing, data conversions, and software development. He is an expert on all IBM Information Server (IIS) applications, notably DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, and FastTrack. A resident of Vero Beach, Florida; Timothy Valihora is also skilled in the operation of multiple administration tools, including the IBM Stewardship Center.

IBM Stewardship Center is a suite that helps businesses maximize data integrity and overall output. It incorporates a sequence of applications that facilitate prompt resolution of data stewardship demands.

With IBM Stewardship Center, data stewards can conduct comprehensive database searches and send data modification requests. Data stewards can also assess records, including hierarchy records, for accuracy, and also fix duplicate tasks. For performance assessment, IBM Stewardship Center enables data stewards to track ongoing, imminent, and outstanding tasks.

Furthermore, data stewards can access a range of dashboards. These include the work and team performance dashboards, which aid data stewards in tracking both individual and collective tasks. The mobile device management dashboard, which handles a variety of tasks, aids data stewards in task allocation. Data stewards and managers can also deduce information from particular hierarchies using the hierarchy maintenance dashboard.

A data governance program is incomplete without sufficient controls, thresholds, and indices. These are instructive in what data types an organization uses and processes. Given the inevitability of glitches, executives should also develop reporting tools to diagnose and resolve concerns as they arise.
Tim Valihora is an expert in ensuring – that “PII” (Personally Identifiable Information) is utilized in a secure fashion. Data Masking and Data Encryption are among the key technologies and approaches that Mr. Valihora has utilized while providing end-to-end Data Governance solutions to over 100 large-scale corporations in Canada, the USA, Asia-Pacific and throughout Europe.
Tim Valihora is a US based (Vero Beach, FL) Data Governance specialist within the IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) software suite and is also an expert with respect to Collibra Data Governance Center and Collibra Data Quality (formerly OWL Data Quality.)

Career Highlights for Tim Valihora Include:

• Technical Architecture, IIS installations, post-install-configuration, SDLC mentoring, ETL programming, performance-tuning, client-side training (including administrators, developers or business analysis) on all of the over 15 out-of-the-box IBM IIS (InfoSphere Information Server) products
• Over 160 Successful IBM IIS installs – Including the GRID Tool-Kit for DataStage (GTK), MPP, SMP, Multiple-Engines, Clustered Xmeta, Clustered WAS, Active-Passive (Server) “Mirroring” and Oracle Real Application Clustered (RAC) “IADB” or “Xmeta” configurations
• Extensive experience with creating realistic and achievable Disaster-Recovery (DR) for IBM IIS installations + Collibra Data Quality clusters
• IBM MicroServices (MS) (built upon Red Hat Open-Shift (RHOS) and Kubernetes Technology) installations and administration including Information Governance Catalog (IGC) “New”, Information Analyzer (IA) “thin”, Watson Knowledge Catalog (WKC) and Enterprise Search (ES) – on IBM Cloud PAK for Data (CP4D) platforms or IIS v11.7.1.4 “on-prem”
• Over 8000 DataStage and QualityStage ETL Jobs Coded
• Address Certification (WAVES, CASS, SERP, Address Doctor, Experian QAS)
• Real-Time coding and mentoring via IBM IIS Information Services Director (ISD)
• IIS IGC Rest-API coding (including custom audit coding for what has changed within IGC recently…or training on the IGC rest-explorer API)
• IGC “Classic” and IGC “New” – Data Lineage via Extension Mapping Documents or XML “Flow-Docs”
• IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) for Custom Workflows (including Data Quality rules + IGC Glossary Publishing etc.)
• Information Analyzer (IA) Data Rules (via IA or QualityStage – in batch or real-time)
• IBM IIS Stewardship Center installation and Configuration (BPM)
• Data Quality Exception Console (DQEC) setup and configuration
• IGC Glossary Publishing Remediation Workflows (BPM, Stewardship Center, Subscription Manager)