Summary
Volker Schulz is a seasoned data management and IT leader with 20+ years of experience designing and operationalizing data strategy, governance, and cloud architectures across financial services, utilities, and manufacturing. Currently Director of Data Governance at Tenaska after leading enterprise data functions at Ameritas and Omaha Public Power District, he has a proven track record of turning complex modernization programs—cloud migrations, DataOps, MDM, and BI/warehouse modernization—into measurable business value. He blends technical depth (cloud platform resource management, big data, BI) with executive-level business acumen informed by an Executive MBA and multilingual, cross-cultural experience. An operator who has led both consulting practices and startups, he uniquely combines hands-on solution delivery with practice-building and vendor alliance management. Colleagues rely on him to create pragmatic governance that enables self-service analytics while keeping data reliable and auditable.
8 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA International Business, Executive MBA International Business at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)
4. Oberschule am Rathaus, Berlin
German, English, Spanish