Richard Kachur
About Richard Kachur
Richard Kachur is a Senior Enterprise Data Architect at TELUS with 42 years of experience in data management, specializing in Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Quality Management, and Data Architecture.
Title
Richard Kachur holds the title of Senior Enterprise Data Architect at TELUS, based in Burnaby, B.C. His role entails overseeing corporate data quality management and utilizing various data governance tools. He specializes in data governance, metadata management, data quality management, and data architecture.
Current Company
Richard is currently employed at TELUS, where he works as a Senior Enterprise Data Architect. In this position, he is responsible for corporate data quality management, leveraging tools such as IDQ, SAS DMP, GCP Data Studio, and Dataflow for cloud data management.
Previous Experience
Richard Kachur has accumulated a wealth of experience over his career. He has a notable history with IBM CANADA LTD as a Technical Practice Leader BAO for Western Canada from 2005 to 2011. Prior to that, he served as Principal at Informatix from 2001 to 2005, and DW Practice Manager at Ernst & Young LLP from 1999 to 2001. His early career included roles as a BI & DW Consultant at ICBC, BC Rail, WCB BC, and BCAA from 1988 to 2001.
Education and Expertise
Richard Kachur graduated from The University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). Over his 42-year career in data management, he has become proficient in various domains, including data governance, metadata management, and data architecture. His extensive experience spans global data management and value-driven deployments of Data Governance and Master Data Management (MDM) processes.
Professional Contributions
Richard actively contributes to the IT community by setting up the Vancouver Chapter of the Data Management Association (DAMA) and presenting DMBOK 2.0. Since May 2015, he has been contributing to Wayne Eckerson's Global BI blog discussing topics such as Self-serve BI, Big Data Architectures like Hadoop 2.0 and SAP Hana, and other data management subjects.