Heather Meyer, Fractional Director, Data Readiness & Enablement
Heather Meyer is the founder and principal of H. Meyer Data Consulting, serving as a fractional Director of Data Readiness & Enablement for organizations navigating major technology transformations. With nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare, technology, and enterprise environments, Heather specializes in de-risking complex migrations, system consolidations, and AI initiatives by building robust data foundations and executive intelligence tools that drive confident decision-making.
Heather has led large-scale programs for organizations with 2,000 to 50,000+ users, managing multi-workstream initiatives across identity, collaboration, endpoint, and voice technologies. Her work includes building analytics pipelines that integrated multiple data sources, codifying readiness rules and exception taxonomies, and delivering executive dashboards that drove 99%+ completion rates and shortened post-go-live stabilization windows.
Her earlier work in healthcare analytics—including HEDIS reporting, claims and clinical data integration, and regulatory compliance—gave her a deep foundation in data quality, governance, and audit-ready execution.
Heather partners with CIOs, CDOs, and transformation leaders in regulated industries who need senior data leadership without a full-time hire. Whether standing up a data readiness diagnostic before a major migration, building the canonical dataset and governance model for an AI deployment, or providing ongoing fractional leadership through a high-stakes program, she brings the rare combination of technical depth and executive communication that turns data chaos into delivery predictability.
Heather holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from DeVry University and is based in the Chicago area.
Enterprise Migration Execution:
99.6% completion on 16,000+ user healthcare enterprise O365/ADMS migration across 4 global regions
95% completion on 2,500-device migration for state government agency
Coordinated 40,000+ user global identity migration across multiple regions for Fortune 500 technology company
Managed multi-year email archive migration for 13,000+ users at major media organization
Led data coordination for Fortune 500 financial services M&A integration and enterprise modernization programs
Healthcare Compliance & Data Quality:
Managed encounter/eligibility/provider data for 90,000-member Medicaid MCO where HEDIS reporting tied to state quality withholds (up to 1.5% of capitation)
Supported 4,300-provider network data integration and master data management
Contributed to analytics achieving >90th percentile performance in behavioral health follow-up measures (7-day mental health hospitalization)
Owned HEDIS production and audit compliance for 8+ measures including childhood immunizations, prenatal/postpartum care, diabetes care
Contributed to Performance Improvement Projects showing statistically significant gains on 6 of 13 measures
Led RFP evaluation and implementation of NCQA-certified HEDIS software
Data Integration & Executive Intelligence:
Built migration coordination databases integrating 6+ data sources (HR, AD, Azure, O365, Intune, SCCM, endpoint, application data)
Delivered Power BI and Excel executive dashboards for daily program status, burndown tracking, and exception monitoring
Developed readiness rules and exception taxonomies adopted as standards across multiple client engagements
Client Recognition:
Recognized by Fortune 500 client VP for "exceptional value, flexibility, and professionalism"
Praised by healthcare enterprise project sponsors for "exceptional work managing VIPs and delegates"
Earned extension requests from financial services clients based on delivery quality
Enterprise clients noted ability to "win over resistant stakeholders"