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Eugenia Fey, Business Relationship Manager, Ford Motor Company

Eugenia Fey wants to live in a world where IT solutions are perfectly architected, and the right data is available to the right people at the right time. She has held architecture and management of IT Solution delivery roles in various organizations, from startups to Fortune 100s.

Eugenia has been with Ford Motor Company since 2003, most recently in the role of Business Relationship Manager, helping to implement industry best practices in IT Service Management initiatives including Data Management and Governance.

CO-SPEAKER

Zachary Dropkin, IT Operations – Acquisition and Asset Management Supervisor, Ford Motor Company

Mr. Dropkin has been at Ford Motor Company for over 15 years and has had various business roles within IT focusing on Hardware and Software Acquisition and Asset Management. Currently, Mr. Dropkin is working on implementing an automated, end to end process for management of the data that supports IT Operations – Applications, Hardware Platforms and Storage, etc. using the IT Service Management framework as its foundation.

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Ford Goes Further on Good Data Management
Track: Data Governance
Eugenia Fey, Business Relationship Manager, Ford Motor Company
Zachary Dropkin, IT Operations – Acquisition and Asset Management Supervisor, Ford Motor Company

Since the mid-90’s, IT at Ford Motor Company has had two key tasks: supporting the running of the company and keeping abreast of advancements in technology.

As Ford’s focus shifted to connected vehicles and e-mobility, the IT organization has become integral to the manufacturing, marketing, and product development of vehicles. In the next decade, the degree of this integration is expected to dramatically increase.

The biggest challenge has become the isolation of the areas with growing amounts of the data related to the technology that supports the running of the company (e.g., mainframes, Intel Servers, and applications).

This has resulted in major inefficiencies in both the speed of delivery of IT services and the costs of those services. Increasing pressures to reduce both have now forced Ford IT to address the issues related to IT data and implement an automated end-to-end process for data creation, management, and use.

This presentation summarizes our experience in providing solutions to the above challenges by establishing a single source of IT data, forming efficient data governance processes, and ensuring consistent usage of the data by various data consumer organizations across global enterprise.