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Roy Elgar
e.rattynz@gmail.com  85 Duthie Street, Karori, Wellington 6012 021 722 010
(+65 8354 2518)
Introduction
Roy has 35 years of data, database and data warehousing experience, from early
mainframe and mid-range systems to today’s massively parallel Data Warehouses and
Hadoop-based implementations. His experience has been gained in both AsiaPacific
and Europe working as a vendor and an implementer across many industries and
organisations – from local government and hospital health services to the world’s major
banks, insurers, container shippers and telecommunication giants. As well as leading
design and implementation projects, Roy has developed design guides, logical and
physical data models, education and training materials, and has spoken at many
international conferences.
He has been recognised as a Thought Leader and Innovator by both Teradata and IBM,
and is both a Teradata Certified Professional and a Certified Consulting Level IBM IT
Architect.
Roy has been working internationally for the past 20 years, including periods living and
working in the UK, India, Denmark and now 50% in Singapore. He has gathered deep
experience across many industries and cultures and wants to bring these to New
Zealand
Personal Details
Nationality: New Zealand and British passport holder. Date Birth: 18 July 1958
Family Status: Married with 4 non-dependent children.
Languages: English and Dutch.
Out-of-work interests: Sports including sailing, skiing, running and volleyball. Mountain
walking and camping. Music and reading – avid reader and investigator of new music.
Non-religious, Non-smoker
Degree: 1976 BSc(Hons) University of Exeter

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Key Skills and technologies
SKILLS
 Logical and Physical Architecture definition – including translation of business
requirements into technical requirements and defining architecture components to
support those requirements. Physical architecture over relational and Hadoop
technologies. Developed architecture assets and design patterns since adopted by
Teradata world-wide. (20 years’ experience)
 Defining and running transition programs to move from legacy to new technical
architectures for data management
 Logical Data Modeling – including building a local government LDM from scratch,
LDM reviews for clients and LDM to source system mapping (18 years’ experience)
 Physical Data Modeling – for Teradata and DB2. Co-defined the Teradata LDM to
PDM process now adopted world-wide. (25 years’ experience)
 Hadoop toolset and technology selection and definition, definition of ingest,
processing and extract frameworks. (2 years’ experience)
 Data Integration design – non-tool specific ETL/ELT requirements definition,
architecture definition, design and test-plan design. More recently focused on data
consolidation and exploiting Hadoop technologies. (10 years’ experience).
 Teradata performance, capacity and availability assessments (5 years)
 Business Report Development – for technical and non-technical assignments and
subjects (7 years)
TECHNOLOGIES
 Teradata RDBMS, IBM DB2 (Parallel and Data Warehouse Editions), CA AllFusion
ERwin, Teradata sizing, configuration and performance tools.
 HortonWorks Data Platform and open-source tools supporting Hadoop.
 Working knowledge of Data Integration, Change Data Capture and Systems
Management technologies to Architecture and Design levels
Experience
Standard Chartered Bank | Singapore
Enterprise Data Architect July 2014 –
Roy is full-time seconded from Teradata into the bank’s Group Architecture team based
in Singapore.
Responsibilities include defining, documenting and monitoring the adoption of a multi-
platform, multi-technology Enterprise Data Management architecture. The objective is to
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implement a Data Lake (Hadoop) and Data Warehouse (Teradata). Roy represents the
bank’s architecture team on key review and program management boards.
Major initiatives include:
 Defining utilities and standard patterns to enable data migration from legacy
platforms and processing on the target platforms
 Selecting technologies and toolsets to enable rapid progress while moving the
bank to the new target architecture
 Project and design reviews, including the tracking of technical debt created by
tactical implementations to meet regulator and market deadlines
Monitoring major projects to ensure they are exploiting the new data management
architecture and components rather than building local, isolated solutions.
Telesonera | Stockholm, Sweden
BI Operations January – June 2014
Roy was asked to work for the BI Operations manager to operationalize the Data
Warehouse. This full-time, 6 month assignment was complicated by outsourcer and
client politics and was more of a consulting and program management than a technical
assignment.
Major responsibilities included:
 Defining roles and ownership for deployment management, operational
acceptance, performance, capacity and impact predictions, etc
 Defining metrics to monitor the health of the production environment
 Developing and rolling out tools for project design quality assurance, capacity
and performance predictions, etc
 Developing, delivering and recording technical training for TeleSonera’s system
integrator and IT operations providers.
Maersk Line Shipping | Copenhagen
Data Warehouse Architect October 2011 – December 2013
Roy was full time seconded into Maersk’s BI Organisation as lead Architect. The
challenging role included monitoring architecture and design compliance, developing
and implementing standard design patterns, data modeling QA, capacity forecasting,
operational performance and capacity monitoring, and technical inputs into database
and query performance issue resolution.

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Major initiatives included:
 Managing Teradata database version upgrades
 Adoption of Informatica Power Centre for Extract, Load and Transform
processing (ELT)
 Introducing formalized capacity forecasting based on existing and new workloads
(ie projects)
 Retro-fitting standard design patterns to optimize performance and support
 Introducing and using system, workload, and query-specific metrics to measure
the health of the operational system, identify poorly performing workloads and
change impacts
Industrial Commercial Bank of China | Shanghai
Lead Technical Architect 2007 – 2011
Roy was the lead Teradata Architect supporting the ongoing development and
enhancement of the bank’s Petabyte Teradata investment. The role included:
 Project reviews and mentoring
 An Architecture Renewal and Maturity Assessment (formal process)
 Introducing new architecture, design and development practices and methods to
optimize the effectiveness and return on investment for the bank
 Account planning and Teradata-internal strategy definition
Land Transport Authority | Singapore
Lead Technical Architect 2009 – 2010
This government organization uses Teradata for route planning, capacity and
throughput planning, ticketing and route profitability management. The development,
implementation and operation of Teradata is outsourced to an India SI. Roy’s role was
periodic design and implementation Quality Assurance Reviews, introducing the
customer and the SI to new Teradata capabilities, coaching the SI technical team in
design and modeling.
State Bank of India | Mumbai
Lead Technical Architect 2008 – 2009
Roy lead the Information Discovery, Technical Architecture Design, RFP & Benchmark
Definition and implementation planning phases at this challenging customer in Mumbai
and Delhi. The Teradata team of 12 was on-site for 6 months – Roy was living in India

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at the time and was on-site 67% of the time whilst supporting other initiatives and
projects in India.
Work History | New Zealand, UK, Europe, Asia
1979 – 2008
 Teradata AsiaPacific Regional Team (2006 - )
 IBM AsiaPacific Software Group Lead BI Architect (2001 – 2006)
 Teradata New Zealand, Professional Services, Data Warehouse Architect (2000-2001)
 IBM UK Business Consulting Services DW Implementation Consultant (1996 – 2000)
 Working Knowledge New Zealand, Consultant (1993-1996)
I worked at Capital Coast Health from 1994 – 1996, initially to build and implement a
Case Management driven budgeting tool, then as Project Manager to implement a
new Pharmacy System (Détente), and then as technical assistant to the General
Manager of Medical & Surgical Services trouble-shooting technology projects.
 Telecom New Zealand Ltd, Lead Teradata DBA (1991 – 1993)
 Comtex New Zealand, Consultant and DBA (1990 – 1991)
 Databank Systems Ltd, New Zealand, DBA and Senior Technical Architect (1984 –
1990)
 Database Consultants Europe, The Netherlands – DBA and modeler (1981-1984)
 International Computers Ltd, UK, System Engineer trainee and DBA (1979 – 1981)