Alison Desimone
Data Architect
Malvern Hills, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlison Desimone is a Data Architect with over 11 years' experience designing information and data architectures for complex public-sector organisations, currently shaping data strategy at the Parliamentary Digital Service. She brings deep expertise in ontology and taxonomy development, metadata management, linked data and semantic web technologies, combined with a strong grounding in information governance, data protection and policy development. Her career spans health and defence sectors and long tenures at organisations like NICE and QinetiQ, giving her a practical appreciation for regulated, mission-critical information environments. Alison pairs user research and testing with technical delivery—driving searchable, interoperable content ecosystems and SharePoint migrations. A TOGAF and Prince2 practitioner, she blends formal architecture discipline with hands-on information modelling skills that ensure data is both discoverable and auditable. Based in the Malvern Hills, she brings a rare mix of information science roots and pragmatic delivery experience across enterprise-scale programmes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Hons, European Studies ( French, German), B.A. Hons, European Studies ( French, German) at University of Bath
English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (10)
in-progress7
parliament6
linked-open-data5
ontologies5
ecology5
owl4
data-models4
semantic-web3
linked-data3
semantics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ukparliament/domain-models
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 46 pushes in 11 months
alidesi/ontologies
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 months
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