Douglas is an experienced data professional that has worked as architect and engineer at all levels to deliver data warehouse projects at banks, retailers, airlines and manufacturers around the world. This now includes the wider data ecosystem that includes data lakes, data stores, data vaults and data marts. Douglas can communicate with all levels of engineering or management during the project to articulate scope, approach, architecture and issues.A development pipeline should be agile - it is important to prototype a new dataset, architecture, tool or design to ensure it matches the data and requirements of any given project. Without an end to end prototype demonstrating how the solution is built, deployed, operated, supported and adaptable to new understandings the risk of failure is unknown - which is scary.