Welcome to my profile! I am an established professional who uniquely fuses a robust HR strategy and scientific approach, particularly in strategic workforce planning and people analytics. With a strong foundation in Biology and Chemistry, I am adept at applying rigorous scientific methodologies to solve complex business problems, setting me apart in the field.

Fueled by a continuous pursuit of learning, I diligently apply this blend of knowledge in novel and impactful ways, drawing from my varied experiences in retail, healthcare, and banking. These experiences have broadened my perspective and deepened my understanding of diverse business needs and challenges.

My strength lies in using historical experiences and trends to craft comprehensive strategies that harmoniously align organizations with their human capital. My intellectual curiosity propels me to dive deep into complex situations, extracting insights crucial for developing robust workforce strategies.

As a certified planner and consultant, I strive for consistency in my processes and results, offering predictability and trust in my professional approach. At the same time, my creativity stimulates me to look beyond conventional methods and develop novel strategies for workforce planning and people analytics. With an inherent ability to foster harmony, I adeptly unify diverse teams toward achieving organizational goals.

At Target, I spearhead initiatives to redefine workforce analytics, blending my scientific background with my business acumen. Leveraging my data analysis and visualization expertise, I influence strategic decision-making, striving to set new industry standards in HR analytics.

Equipped with an MBA, a Strategic Workforce Planning Certificate, and a Bachelor's in Biology, I actively seek networking and knowledge-enhancing opportunities. If you're interested in discussing strategic workforce planning, people analytics, or potential collaborations, feel free to reach out via LinkedIn messaging.

Jared Johnson

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Sr. Privacy Compliance Program Manager

Target

Established and lead Target’s Team Member Data Ethics program, developing ethical principles that guided decision-making in collaboration with privacy, legal, and HR compliance teams. This initiative ensures alignment with organizational and regulatory standards. 

Chair of the Team Member Data Council, providing oversight and guidance on high-risk uses of Team 
Member data and external data disclosures, ensuring responsible and compliant data practices.. 
Streamlined data governance for HR data by designing and implementing access routines, enhancing efficiency, and providing oversight.

Lead development of Target’s first HR-specific privacy training for those handling Team Member data and to raise awareness around CCPA/CPRA requirements.

Lead Data Ethics & Governance Analyst - HR Analytics

Lakeside Consulting Group (LCG) 

Responsible for leading consulting services for global companies to build out their Privacy Program with considerations for both the operational and programmatic functions.

Contracted with a multi-national social media company with a focus on GDPR compliance as well as maturing the overall privacy program.

Activities include:
Drafting programmatic guidance: Policies, Standards, and Guidance;
Drafting operational / procedural documentation: Individual rights requests, privacy complaints, data use requirements, etc.
Coordination across Legal, IT, HR, Security and Marketing teams to understand data flows and usage as well as to assess current uses of data against legal and regulatory requirements.

Data Privacy Consultant

Medtronic

Responsible for managing a multi-national team of privacy professionals across the US, Canada, & LatAm in a wide-variety of complex privacy issues such as cross-border data transfers, HIPAA, mergers & acquisitions, and online data collection. This required intense collaboration and leadership across many cross-functional teams to identify issues, drive consensus around compliance, as well as identifying opportunities to take informed business risks. 

Responsible for timely development of privacy operational processes to support new privacy laws such as CCPA/CPRA (California) & LGPD (Brazil). Including coordination with internal data management teams to support data subject rights requests & consent management projects.

Support global privacy office in developing regional privacy guidance based on enterprise policies and standards - working closely with stakeholders to devise business requirements rather than restatements of the law. As often as possible seeking to define baseline compliance rather than overwhelming the business with complex & competing requirements.

Lead roll out of enterprise cookie preference software (OneTrust) in partnership with IT. While leading the Americas program, this project had global impacts which required close collaboration with EU Legal teams to ensure our solution can manage even the most stringent data protection laws.

Senior Program Manager, Americas Region Data Protection & Privacy Program

Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Responsible for leading the enterprise privacy program in close collaboration with both the Chief Counsel & CISO to ensure alignment with company legal and security functions while driving privacy-by-design activities. 

Responsible for managing data governance activities relating to maintenance of the data inventory and data maps in collaboration with business and technical resources. Responsible for conducting privacy impact assessments for new processes or any existing processes with material changes.

Close collaboration with marketing and business leadership to develop data collection and use strategies in an evolving and highly competitive agricultural landscape along with our customer’s growing adoption of social media, desire for personalization, need for more data about their farming operations, and sustainability reporting. Utilizing forward-looking data governance strategy to account for current needs while mitigating risk and need for future rework.  

Provide support for IT Security teams with respect to incident management & breach response – specifically by identifying key legal requirements (on a state-by-state basis), reviewing evidence, and coordinating any necessary response (public or private) with legal and IT security. Responsible for providing updates to company leadership regarding incident & breach response activities.

Data Privacy & Security Specialist

UnitedHealthcare Military & Veterans

•	Manage a team of subject matter experts in the operational functions of managing Individual Rights under HIPAA, including fulfillment of records requests, PHI disclosure authorizations, restriction requests, & confidential communications requests.
•	Lead investigations into alleged cases of HIPAA violations and incidents along with tracking and reporting functions. 
•	Consult with all lines of business on new initiatives that require privacy oversight touching on regulations such as TCPA, HIPAA, PCI, & various state laws with privacy implications.
•	Privacy point of contact for all governmental and external  inquiries into United Healthcare Military & Veteran’s operations under the TRICARE West contract.

Privacy Consultant

• Conduct Privacy and data management risk assessments, develop remediation plans, and ongoing monitoring for first-line teams.
• Led a cross-functional team to implement a monitoring program to support GLBA compliance. 
• Partnered with master data management team to develop policies that guide data lifecycle and ensure adherence to Target’s compliance responsibilities.
• Consult on existing and emerging business initiatives and provide privacy/data management requirements. Validate implementation of requirements prior to launch. 
• Evaluate emerging regulatory/legislative impacts on current and proposed lines of business. Consult with first-line teams to create plans for implementation of required privacy and data management controls.
• Liaise with key partners from business and technical teams to perform data flow analysis and identify key areas of risk. Areas of business focus include Human Resources, Pay and Benefits, Financial Services, and Marketing.

Compliance Consultant

In this project-based role, I worked with cross-functional teams to analyze current business processes, provide insight into gaps and inefficiencies, and drive fixes. My duties included leading project management functions to scope, plan, and affect right-size solutions.

My 2013 work stream included, Privacy-based projects focusing on Privacy Choice (Opt In/Opt Out), Cookie Auditing/Monitoring (includes standing up a governance/decisioning process to support), and strengthening the integration of Privacy into the Web Development Lifecycle.

Business Process Consultant

I led information security assessments on business processes and supporting technology throughout the enterprise. I leveraged relationships with strategic business partner to develop and socialize our assessment schedule. I facilitated communication between cross-functional teams regarding information security risk and developing plans to mitigate such risk.

Information Protection Analyst

Wiese Law Firm

Focus on business transactional work: contract risk analysis, negotiation, drafting, and executive summaries for complex contracts. 
Sample areas of focus: Software Licensing Agreements, Outsourcing agreements with attached SLAs, Independent Contractor agreements, Work for Hire agreements, Lease Agreements, Vendor Management and various Service agreements.
Business formation including organizational documents, member agreements and by-laws.
Researching regulatory issues relating to clients (emphasis on FAR and HIPAA) and memoranda outlining issues and action steps. 
Managing the firm's social media efforts including blog, Facebook fan page and Twitter account. 
Managing the firms technological needs - Update and monitor firm website (proficient with HTML and XML platforms and Dreamweaver), Providing end-user support for firm computers and software.

Associate Attorney

Wiese Law Firm, P.A.

Attorney

Privacy professional with experience across multiple industries (retail, finance, healthcare, agriculture, & social media) and nuanced regulatory requirements. Skilled in Privacy, Compliance,  Program Building, Negotiation, Management, Business Process Improvement, Public Speaking, and Strategy.

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