Louella Rose Cabalona

Sr. Platform Business Product Consultant - Big Data, Blue Cross and Blue Shield IL (HCSC)

Chicago

Louella Rose Cabalona is an IT Professional with over 20 years of experience specializing in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Big Data for various Fortune 500 companies. She is a Sr. Manager of Business Management Platforms for Data and Analytics Solutions at Blue Cross Blue Shield Illinois (HCSC). As Product Owner of the DI Platform, she leads in building the frameworks, processes, and best practices for the adoption of data integration tools such as Talend, Erwin, and DataStage across the enterprise. She also manages the modernization and hardening of the Data Lake.

Louella is also an accomplished actress who has been in many television shows, commercials, and stage productions performing across Asia; and is the Lead Singer, Producer, and Creative Director for Filipino Folk fusion band SamaSama Project.

Her multiple careers, including being a writer for Chicago-based Via Times NewsMagazine, intersect at understanding truths through stories founded in data and facts. She claims she fell in love with IT when she realized the power of SQL in telling stories.

As President of the nonprofit Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO), Louella leans on her expertise to develop standardized operations, data collection, and organizational documentation that help achieve the nonprofit’s strategic goals for sustainability. She also serves as Director for Asian Popup Cinema, the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Chicago (PACCGC), and the Midwest Pilipino American Coalition (MPAC).

Of the many hats she wears, however, she finds being mama to her toddler Reign and life-long partner to husband Baron, most fulfilling.