I am an independent consultant with more than 50 years of IT experience, 35 of them with Teradata.

At Teradata, I executed many competitive migrations from Oracle, DB2, Netezza, Greenplum, and others, as well as competitive benchmarks.  I also have a few years of experience of migrating Teradata on-prem to the cloud.  I also have extensive experience with performance optimization on Teradata including workload management and physical modeling and semantic layers to optimize BI tool performance as well as data pipeline streamlining and modernization.

I have taught dozens of classes from Teradata Vantage Foundations to advanced Teradata Performance tuning techniques – to Teradata associates, customers, and prospects.  As well as Data Warehousing fundamentals and overall ecosystem architecture.  I have added 10s of millions of dollars to the bottom lines of many companies, and I have spearheaded paradigm shifts in technology, both inside Teradata and for customers.

I have often said “my screwdriver isn’t jealous of my pliers – I need them both, sometimes for the same task”. The right tool for the job makes all the difference.  It’s not a competition.  And it frequently takes more than one tool.  An ecosystem is a complex framework to supply your business users and your customers the most accurate information in the fastest, most cost-efficient manner.  It’s a balancing act – like everything else in life and industry.

“Legacy” is only a dirty word in technology – the wheel is legacy, so are the screwdriver, pliers, and hammer.  They work.  They’re foundational.  And, yes, there are shinier versions that even look and work somewhat differently – but I don’t throw away the tools I’ve depended on for decades (or centuries, in some cases).

I have several partners and network with many who specialize in various roles, technologies, and techniques.  And I have tools and techniques to make some parts of the tasks less time consuming and less expensive.