Ralph Hughes Senior Consultant

Ralph Hughes is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Data Insight & Social BI practice. He also serves as Chief Systems Architect for Ceregenics, a DW/BI firm. As an expert in building data warehouses since the early 1980s, Mr. Hughes is the creator of the Agile Data Warehousing method and author of the book by that same name. He has led multiple BI programs and projects for Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, telecom, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, Mr. Hughes is a certified ScrumMaster, a PMI project management professional, and a faculty member at the Data Warehouse Institute, coaching more than 1,000 BI professionals worldwide in the discipline of incremental and iterative delivery of large data management systems. He specializes in the art of getting projects started quickly with streamlined requirements management techniques and then proving their success with automated and continuous integration testing. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University in computer modeling and econometric forecasting. He can be reached at rhughes@cutter.com.