About me
Michael Magalsky is founder, CEO and Principal Architect at infoVia (http://info-via.com). He
draws from a quarter-century of software, data, and security experience at global leaders in
healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, education, and services industries. Now, as a thought
leader and senior consultant with infoVia specializing in Information Architecture, Data
Warehouse Modeling and Implementation, and Data Security, his team helps other
organizations benefit from the lessons learned in the data journeys with dozens of successful
clients in the United States and abroad. Mike’s passion for results-oriented, value-added data
integration and governance has led to speaking engagements in numerous national forums.
Mike lives with his family in beautiful Boise, Idaho, where he enjoys spending his weekends in
the Idaho outdoors.
Areas of Specialty
Enterprise Information Strategy
Secure Information Provisioning
Information Architecture
Data Warehouse Design & Implementation
Data Process Automation
Information Analytics
Technologies
Wherescape
Snowflake DB
SQL Server Suite
Experience
Sr. Data & Security Architect
New York University Contract
Advise data integration team on data warehouse implementation & conversion, data vault modeling, and
secure data provisioning.
Sr. Data Integration & Security Advisor
Nampa School Districts (Idaho)
Advise data engineering team on data warehouse modeling, automation, and secure sharing by
demonstrating leading practices.
Data Vault Architect
College of Western Idaho
Advised data management team on Data Vault modeling and implementation with automation & data
warehouse generation technology.
Sr. Data Architect
West Ada School District (Idaho)
Advise data management team on DW strategy, data vault modeling, data security, and automation. Sr.
Architect
United Heritage Insurance
Advise teams creating data solutions in Life Insurance and Property/Casualty Insurance strategic
objectives, including data vault modeling and secure data provisioning with infoSecur.
Data & Security Advisor
US Ecology,
Advise data warehouse team on models, architecture, technology, and security strategies.
Data Warehouse Architect
POWER Engineers Contract
As a consultant, trained and advised data management team on data platform modernization and leading
implementation practices leveraging Wherescape automation tools.
Data Vault Advisor
Perficient
Advised modeling and data integration team on data warehouse automation and generation using the
Data Vault paradigm and Wherescape technology set.
Senior Data & Security Advisor
Blue Cross of Idaho
In a consultative role to the CTO and CISO, advised on aspects of data security, data warehouse
automation, data vault modeling, information architecture, and safe data provisioning.
Micron Technology
Enterprise Data Architect
Led the team who implemented Earth's largest known commercial Data Warehouse integrating enterprise
manufacturing data with Data Vault 2.0 concepts on Teradata using Wherescape tools for ETL/ELT.
Project: Nexus, Micron’s Global Data Warehouse
As Data Architect, led the technical team that designed and implemented Raw and Business Data
Vault layers plus a user-facing Information Mart containing Micron's key manufacturing data. Processing
over 3 billion records per day, it has been called the world's largest commercial implementation using
Data Vault constructs. Technologies included Informatica and NiFi for acquisition, ELT and IM views with
WhereScape, running on Teradata's MPP DBMS.
Contact
Email: mmagalsky@info-via.com
Phone: +1 208-297-0454
Short Bio Bullets
Michael Magalsky
Founder and Principal Architect at infoVia (http://info-via.com) and infoSecur (http://info-
secur.com)
Has advised and built Data Vaults for dozens of clients in healthcare, manufacturing, insurance,
education, government, and services industries.
Specialties include Information Architecture, Data Warehouse Automation, and Data Security
Favorite Lesson Learned: Data management is hard. Always automate leveraging patterns
and metadata.
Proudly hails from Boise, Idaho, where