Eve McGivern

Application governance, systems thinking, and product delivery · Austin, TX

I lead global IT application governance at Las Vegas Sands. I also work with my partner on Stylus Nexus, the product studio we co-founded to build data and AI-enabled applications. Behind both is 19 years of business systems analysis and product delivery in regulated financial services and gaming.

Systems thinking is the through-line. I map how applications, data, processes, controls, and people affect one another, then turn ambiguity into requirements, decision models, operating workflows, and roadmaps.

Outside the day job I design and govern workflows for AI-assisted work, from agent control gates to human-in-the-loop decision points, and I build the workflow as well as specify it. Background in development, analysis, and art — most of why I think in systems. Current focus: formal architecture ownership.

Pronouns: she/her/hers

What I do

Governance: Application registers, rationalization, control gates, and SOX-compliant documentation across a global estate.
Analysis and architecture: Conceptual and logical data models, data lineage across Python, Informatica, and Snowflake, decision models, and process mapping.
Product and delivery: Co-founder of Stylus Nexus: product strategy, full-stack builds in Next.js and React, and testing AI models, prompts, and guardrails. Earlier, I led an 8 to 13 person team moving a legacy Oracle compensation platform to AWS and Snowflake.
AI-assisted workflows: Agent control gates, lifecycle loops, and human-in-the-loop design, published as open repositories.
Writing: I write about independent music for Brainwashed.

Experience

2025 – presentManager, Global IT Application Governance, Las Vegas Sands
2025 – presentCo-Founder, Product and Technical Strategy, Stylus Nexus
2020 – 2024Technology Product, Compensation Cloud Transformation, LPL Financial
2019 – 2020Senior Business Consultant, SaaS no-code banking, Temenos
2014 – 2019Senior Business Systems Analyst, enterprise risk and data warehouse, BNY Mellon
2011 – 2014Senior Business Systems Analyst, commercial real estate, PNC
2007 – 2011Business Systems Analyst, wealth management, BNY Mellon

Earlier career

Project and Design Manager, higher education
Business Systems Analyst and Developer, ERP
PHP Developer, arts and media
Web Designer, music and entertainment (Joomla CMS)
Usability Specialist, shipping and logistics
ColdFusion Web Developer, B2B e-commerce
Web Designer, secondary and elementary education

Development background: SQL and PL/SQL on Oracle, Python, Informatica, Snowflake, ColdFusion, PHP, and now Next.js and React.

Certifications

Certified SAFe 6 PractitionerScaled Agile
Certified SAFe 5 PractitionerScaled Agile
AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web Services
AWS Certified AI PractitionerAmazon Web Services
Microsoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsMicrosoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI FundamentalsMicrosoft
Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM)IAITAM · exam November 2026
Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing Leveraging Gen AIGreat Learning · 2024–2025

Badges are on Credly. Microsoft no longer issues badges through Credly, so the Azure badges appear there as unverified. The Azure links go to my Microsoft Learn profile, which holds the official record.

Personal

Work

app-governance-kit

Seven application-governance methods — portfolio, AI, and access — for Claude, Codex, and Copilot, mapped to ISO/IEC 19770, COBIT 2019, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 42001. Also includes eight SAM templates and checklists, a certification study coach, a router skill, a public reference site, and hands-on practicum exercises.

New Projects

Featured · Tool

Live Brew

A free pour-over coffee ratio calculator. Enter coffee, brew water, or mug size and get the rest at 1:14 to 1:18. Static, works offline, no accounts, no analytics.

ChatGPT plugin

RoleReady Resume Tailor

Tailor resumes to complete job descriptions using verified source facts. RoleReady asks clarifying questions, explains edits with source evidence, and flags gaps rather than inventing qualifications. It does not promise ATS scores, interviews, or job outcomes; export and page-count checks depend on available ChatGPT tools.

Data story

The Grocery Gap

A cited data story about U.S. grocery prices, income, and food spending. Traces grocery-price growth against personal income since 1970, then compares food-at-home spending across Census regions.

Business analysis tools

Excel workbook

UAT Strategy Selector

A checklist that walks through the factors that decide a user acceptance testing strategy: system type, critical functionality, integration, risk level, regulatory compliance, development model, automation, defect handling, and sign-off.

Excel workbook

API Requirements Checklist and User Story Generator

A checklist for drafting API requirements across nine areas, from purpose and scope to security, performance, error handling, versioning, and compliance, with a user story template.

The workbooks are macro-enabled Excel files (.xlsm), kept up to date on my Notion portfolio. Open a card and download the file from its Notion page.

Side Projects

CritForge

An AI campaign companion for D&D 5e game masters: NPCs with stat blocks, plots and full modules, encounters, maps, factions, and magic items, grounded in your own world. A Campaign Bible flags contradictions and exports to virtual tabletops. Built with Stylus Nexus.