Meet Cheryl Dopp
Principal & Lead Architect, AI NOW
In a world of AI, having a unique voice and clear, personal vision will be the differentiator.
— Cheryl Dopp, Founder
For nearly three decades I've worked inside some of the world's most complex organizations — Citi, Morgan Stanley, BNY Mellon Wealth Management, FM Global, S&P Global, the FDA, Geisinger, NBC Universal, Barclays — designing the data systems that run critical business operations.
AI is changing software faster than any prior technology shift. But one thing hasn't changed: organizations still succeed or fail based on the quality of their data.
That’s where AI NOW lives.
Where I've Worked
Banking · Property & Casualty Insurance · Healthcare · Wealth Management · Federal Government · Structured Finance · Education · Media · Telecom · Retail
What I Bring
• Conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling (ER/Studio, ERwin, PowerDesigner, PGModeler)
• OLTP, ODS, Kimball dimensional, SCD2, MDM, reference data hubs, canonical models
• Cloud & modern platforms — AWS Data Lake, Databricks, Apache Spark, Postgres, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB, Hadoop
• AI/ML data enablement — feature stores, vectorized representations, prediction-serving data products
• Enterprise data governance, CDEs, naming standards, regulatory explainability
Philosophy
Technology changes. Good architecture lasts. I've watched waves come and go. Every generation promises to replace the last. The organizations that win are the ones that build systems that remain understandable, maintainable, and adaptable. That's the perspective I bring to AI.