Experience
Andrea Royster's career is best understood as a progression of disciplines. Each stage built on the one before it, moving from the data layer toward enterprise-wide architecture.
Andrea currently serves as a Senior Enterprise Architect at a Fortune 100 company.
Her work sits at the intersection of business needs, technology strategy, data, and enterprise architecture: the level at which architectural decisions affect how a large organization plans for and uses technology. It draws on every stage of experience that came before it.
Enterprise architecture is the discipline of connecting an organization's goals with the technology capabilities, data, and systems that support them. It is concerned less with any single system than with how systems fit together, and with whether architectural decisions serve broader organizational needs.
Andrea's move into enterprise architecture extended her focus from how information is organized to how technology as a whole aligns with the organization it serves.
Before enterprise architecture, Andrea worked as a Data Architect.
Data architecture is concerned with how information is structured, organized, governed, and used across systems. This stage broadened her view from individual database environments to the wider information landscape, and to how data connects the systems that depend on it.
Andrea's earlier experience as a Database Administrator provided foundational exposure to enterprise data environments.
Database administration is close, practical work with the data itself. That grounding is part of what distinguishes her perspective: her approach to architecture was built from the data layer up.
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Together, these stages span enterprise architecture, technology strategy, business and technology alignment, data architecture, database administration, and enterprise data.