Pamela Wise Martinez - MIT CDOIQ 2014 - TheCUBE - #MITIQ
Pamela Wise Martinez, Office of the DNI, with Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin 8th Annual MIT Chief Data Officer & Information Quality Symposium @theCUBE #MITIQ A strong focus on interoperability, data standardization and sharing, disciplines around IT architecture and frameworks pave the way to a portfolio of common good for government organizations. Pamela Wise-Martinez, Senior Strategic Enterprise Architect, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said her organization’s main concern is determining, at the highest level, what frameworks work best. In a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante at the MIT CDOIQ conference, Wise-Martinez said, “I do consider myself an enterprise architect.” In her opinion, the role of the enterprise architect can fall under the Chief Data Officer (CDO), as the CIO is more focused on operations. Asked what drives this transition of the enterprise architect to be part of the CDO, she stated “it is a natural evolution.” The enterprise architect focuses both on technology and on business. The CDO will really have a strategic focus on where that data is going, from an enterprise perspective, Wise-Martinez detailed. The enterprise architect lays out the capabilities and functions to help the CDO explain to the CIO, or in her case the Secretaries of State, where their data is going and how it is used. “I think it is a more strategic role, and more importantly it is a role that’s really needed,” Wise-Martinez noted. “Who is really helping to charter, to manage, and help [the CEO’s] vision become reality more than the CDO?” In the Big Data discussion, the CDO helps take analytics and turns that insight into business capital. In her own role, Wise-Martinez focuses on how to use data to enable U.S. citizens. “Being more citizen-centric, and even borrowing from our European counterparts” is one of the ideals to achieve, she explained. As an example, she mentioned life events — agencies develop the data around them, but use each event multiple times. “As a consumer, or a citizen, I am born, I pay taxes, I use healthcare. If I have data that can be used across those organizations,” it saves money, effort, and time when using data more effectively, Wise-Martinez said.