I am a Nurse-Informatician currently working for Johns Hopkins University in the School of Medicine Biomedical Informatics and Data Science section. I have substantial professional experience supporting local, regional, and national multi-site administration and implementation of information technology, terminologies and data standards in health care delivery and human / population health research. On the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) project I lead a group of subject matter experts from 4 common data models over a 5-week period at the project launch representing over one thousand manhours curating standard transformations (maps) into the N3C data harmonization pipeline. I developed the N3C approach to terminology change management, supported the data ingestion and quality processes and lead the N3C “Data Liaison” team. In my career the most exciting and rewarding projects involve collaborations on teams comprised of physicians, scientists, faculty, and others representing diverse clinical and technical backgrounds to achieve creative technical and data solutions supporting Learning Health Organizations in knowledge discovery and improved personal and population health. N3C is a shining example of this: where uniquely innovative results are realized when divergent disciplines came together to meet an urgent and impactful challenge impacting us all.