Todd Walter is the Chief Technologist for Teradata across the Americas region. With substantive expertise in big data, database engineering and systems architecture, he works closely with Teradata customers, colleagues, and alliance partners to evaluate and prioritize initiatives -- and implements data strategy and analytics. As a pragmatic visionary, Walter helps customer business analysts, as well as technologists, better understand all of the astonishing possibilities of big data and analytics in view of emerging as well as existing capabilities of information infrastructures.