Sandra Fries Elovitz

Senior Process Engineer • Data Quality & Governance • Remote-first leader

St. Louis, MO • Open to Remote · sandrafrieselovitz@gmail.com · LinkedIn

15+
Years experience
20+
Major programs led
50+
Process improvements

Snapshot

A career spanning process engineering, data quality, governance, analytics, and program delivery—connecting strategy to stable, scalable operations.

  • Lead end-to-end process design from concept to commissioning/operational readiness; set standards, SOPs, and acceptance criteria.
  • Drive optimization & debottlenecking with data-driven telemetry, control plans, and change discipline to improve throughput, reliability, and cost/energy efficiency.
  • Facilitate PHA-style reviews (FMEA/What-If), root-cause, and corrective action with evidence-based verification.
  • Coordinate across engineering, operations, compliance, finance, and vendors; mentor mid/junior engineers.
  • Embed governance, traceability, and audit-readiness to support ESG and regulatory outcomes.
  • Remote-first excellence with crisp documentation, decision logs, and async collaboration.

Hats I wear

⚙️ Process Engineering ✅ Operational Readiness 🧮 Data Quality Analysis 🗂️ Data Governance 📊 Analytics & BI 🛡 ️Risk Controlt 📦 Program / Project Delivery 🌐 Remote Leadership

Career Highlights

Selected roles and outcomes (sanitized for confidentiality)

Senior Data Quality Analyst / Process Engineering Lead
UVNV Inc. (Ultra Mobile & Mint Mobile) — Remote
2024 – Present
  • Co-designed and built a DIY process monitoring & data quality platform (Snowflake SQL + Python Snowpark) that replaced an off‑the‑shelf subscription—saving ~$50K per month—while adding transparency and control (thresholds, runbooks, on‑call triage).
  • Applied prompt engineering to augment an internal AI assistant (Confluence + Snowflake knowledge), accelerating rule drafting and explanation quality; established prompt patterns, evaluation checks, and governance.
  • Processing performance: for equivalent checks, the in‑house engine runs noticeably faster than Collibra DQ in our environment, improving time‑to‑detect and clearing peak backlogs.
  • Centralized, versioned rule repository with clear ownership improved maintainability and reduced duplication/rework; rule drafting is more efficient and consistent across teams.
  • Owned standards, SOPs, readiness checks, and incident playbooks for high‑stakes data operations; facilitated FMEA/5‑Whys RCAs and tied corrective actions to change control and verification.
Senior Quality BI/Reporting — External Affairs, Regulatory & Legislative
AT&T
2020 – end of Jan-2024
  • Created business-critical dashboards for key network build programs, giving leadership clear line-of-sight to milestones, coverage expansion, risks/variance, and funding dependencies.
  • Developed state legislative dashboards with geospatial overlays by county/district to visualize broadband build impacts and underserved regions, enabling transparent, data-driven policy discussions.
  • Standardized KPI definitions and governed data pipelines, reducing reporting cycle time and producing audit-ready documentation across multi-release programs.
Senior QA Manager / Process Improvement Lead
AT&T
2010 – 2020
  • Instituted phase-gate criteria and defect containment strategies reducing escape rates and stabilizing go-lives.
  • Developed incident playbooks and ran hazard/what-if style reviews for complex releases.
  • Directed budgets, schedules, and mentoring for distributed teams.

Portfolio

Selected public work.

Your Affordable Mortgage

A privacy-forward mortgage guidance site that helps low-income users explore affordability with clear tips, listings, and lightweight calculators.

  • Flask backend + HTML/CSS UI; email results workflow.
  • Mortgage tips, curated listings, and personalized recommendations.
  • PWA-ready; Android packaging & Play Console setup in progress.

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Case Studies

Problem → Approach → Impact

Observability & Quality Platform

Problem: Critical dataset lacked early warning and standardized response.

Approach: Built Snowflake/Python-based monitors, control plans, and runbooks; established thresholds and on-call triage.

Impact: Reduced investigation time from days to hours; improved system reliability and stakeholder confidence.

Governance & Readiness Playbook

Problem: Fragmented standards led to inconsistent go-lives and rework.

Approach: Authored policy→standard→procedure chain, readiness checklists, and evidence templates; trained teams.

Impact: Fewer post-release incidents; faster time-to-stable operations; clear audit trail for compliance/ESG.

Embedded QA Advocates

Problem: Late-stage defects causing costly rollbacks.

Approach: Embedded QA with dev teams; introduced phase gates and defect taxonomy; improved risk reviews.

Impact: Significant cost avoidance and improved first-time-right outcomes across multiple releases.

Capabilities & Tools

Process & Safety

  • Process design, mapping (BPMN), standards & SOPs
  • Operational readiness, commissioning checklists
  • Optimization, debottlenecking, control plans
  • PHA-style reviews: FMEA, What-If; RCA (5-Whys, fishbone)
  • Change control & post-implementation verification

Data & Engineering

  • Python (Snowpark), SQL (Snowflake), Flask
  • Dashboards/analytics (Power BI, Fabric)
  • Versioning & documentation (Git, Confluence/Jira)
  • ESG/traceability: evidence, lineage, audit-readiness
  • Industrial upskilling: PFD/P&ID interpretation, M&E balance fundamentals

Credentials

B.S., Business Administration
Focus: project management
Lean Six Sigma
Certified
Data Management Fundamentals
Certified; studying DAMA-DMBOK

Notes & Resources

Occasional writing on process, readiness, and data/ESG-by-design (short reads)

Commissioning checklists that stick

Article

From RCA to prevention: closing the loop

Article

Designing for traceability without slowing delivery

Short blurb coming soon.

Let’s collaborate

Open to senior roles in process engineering, data quality/governance, and cross-functional optimization (remote-first).