Kate Hertweck
Program Manager - Data Governance And Strategy
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKate Hertweck is a program manager and community builder with 11 years of experience translating open science principles into operational strategy across academia, nonprofits, and research institutes. With a Ph.D. in biology and deep bioinformatics experience, she has built an Open Science Program Office, managed multi-million-dollar grant portfolios, and led reproducible research training programs that scaled to hundreds of learners. She specializes in data governance at the intersection of biological data, AI, and community-governed infrastructure, authoring governance docs and delivering measurable program outcomes. A pragmatic facilitator, she pairs hands-on technical fluency with stakeholder-driven strategy, and has a track record of creating sustainable communities of practice and capacity-building initiatives for under-resourced research ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, General at Western Kentucky UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Spanish
Github Skills (97)
python10
tidyverse10
computational-biology10
reproducible-science10
r10
matlab10
tiddlywiki10
versioning10
science10
git10
open-science10
stable10
data-science10
git-workflow10
merge10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fredhutchio/r_intro
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
four class intro to R: basic syntax, data manipulation, data viz
Contributions:172 commits, 5 PRs, 112 pushes in 2 years 5 months
data-vizrcancertidyversetraining
k8hertweck/HertweckLabSOPs
Oct 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 17 pushes, 3 issues in 2 years 7 months
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