Barbara Eckman

Barbara Eckman, Ph.D. is a recognized technical innovator and strategist in data architecture and heterogeneous database integration. Her experience includes technical leadership positions at a Human Genome Project Center, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and IBM, where she served on the IBM Academy of Technology, an internal peer-elected organization akin to the National Academy of Sciences. At Comcast she leads Data Architecture and Data Governance for an innovative, company-wide, data-intensive infrastructure for real-time ingesting, streaming, storing, retrieving and analyzing Big Data. She holds degrees from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.