Wilford Saunders
Data Stewardship And Privacy Administrator
Olympia, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWilford Saunders is a privacy and data stewardship leader with a decade of public-sector experience building governance, policy, and compliance programs across Washington state agencies. As the agency privacy officer and chair of the Data Governance Board at the Department of Licensing, he is launching a Data Management Office to embed standards, audits, and stewardship competencies into operational practice. A Juris Doctor admitted in Washington and Maine, he combines legal rigor with hands-on program management—from chief privacy roles to broadband policy and open data leadership. Wilford’s background in telecommunications regulation and international project work gives him a rare blend of technical, regulatory, and cross-cultural negotiation skills. A civic technology advocate and mentor, he brings a pragmatic focus on employee training and continuous process improvement to protect and enable responsible data use.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National UniversityJuris Doctor (J.D.), Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law at University of Maine School of LawBA, Russian, History, BA, Russian, History at Bowdoin College
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Github Skills (22)
broadband8
metadata7
open-data7
csv7
planning6
open-datasets6
json6
ckan5
django5
data-science4
survey4
mongodb4
pii3
nodejs3
connectivity2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Access-and-Connectivity-Toolkit/ACT
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Access Connectivity Toolkit - a survey tool for broadband action teams. Formerly running at https://actbroadband.online -- Now mothballed.
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
connectivity4gnodejsnetwork-securityplanning
WaTech/privacy-checklists
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Open version of checklists app for privacy officers
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
checklistpiichecklistsprivacy
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