Alison Torres

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Alison Torres Teradata Certified Master Teradata
Warehouse Sales Consulting Team Bound Brook, NJ,
USA
Alison Torres is a Director for Teradatas
Warehouse Sales Consulting Team. She has been
working with the Teradata product since 1986 and
her Teradata experience includes positions as
Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Customer
Education Instructor, Technical Team Leader for
Central Latin America, Senior Data Warehouse
Consultant, Chief Technical Data Warehouse
Strategist while concentrating in the areas of
physical database design, application and
transaction design, and logical data modeling.
Alison is recognized internationally for her
mastery in the areas of data warehouse design,
implementation, and performance. Joining
Teradata in 1986, Alisons work in the computer
industry has spanned nearly thirty years and has
been dedicated to driving business value from
analytical processing. Throughout the years,
Alison has been involved in the design, coding,
implementation, and documentation of many key
business applications. She has led teams that
have delivered some of the most successful
enterprise data warehouses in existence.
Facilitating data warehouse workshops for
prospective customers is among Alison's many
current responsibilities. These workshops are
designed to focus specifically on strategic
business opportunities identified by the prospect
and to help business users understand how those
opportunities can be captured with a data
warehouse. The workshops are vendor neutral,
addressing only what capabilities a data
warehouse should have and how these capabilities
relate to solving specific, high value business
challenges for the user. Alison is a Teradata
Certified Master (V2R3 and V2R5). She received a
Master of Arts from the Universidad de Salamanca,
Spain, holds a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers
College where she was in the first co-ed class,
and has worked on graduate studies at the Rutgers
Graduate School of Education. She is also a
graduate of Robbins Research International
Mastery University, Leadership Academy, and was
promoted to Trainer Status. She is an example of
Invictus, Vividus, Primarius, and Auctor. An
unconquerable leader of vision and action,
serving, contributing, and celebrating
life! Alison is the author of numerous white
papers and LOOK MA, NO HANDS!, an article
available in Teradata Magazine that explains how
Teradata self-management makes hands-free driving
safe for any DBA. She is also past President of
the International Board of Directors for Women in
NCR, a Business Resource Group.