Eric Needs
Oracle
Santa Clarita,CA
26
years of professional experience
Results-driven Technical Consultant with expertise in IT infrastructure planning, project management, and cybersecurity. Proven track record in enhancing operational efficiencies and delivering compliance solutions for complex environments.
Work History
Technical Consultant IV
11 Years 6 Months- Led cross-functional teams to implement solutions for Oracle Fusion infrastructure, enhancing operational efficiencies and client satisfaction.
- Mentored the team on deployed operations supporting over 250,000 compute instances for high availability, reducing operational expense.
- Developed and delivered migration for the supporting infrastructure through domU (virtual machines) to OCI based compute infrastructure and finally into container / Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Managed and provided regulatory compliance for infrastructure— including server, application and network for US FedRAMP, NIST (DoD/DoW) and SCIF operations.
- Troubleshooting and resolution of end to end operations for the application suite and for customer based issues across many application suites.
Infrastructure Consultant III
14 Years 2 Months- End-to-end support, design, development and release for the LoudCloud / HP Automated Operations product supporting over 8 global data centers with over 99.999% uptime
- Provided technical expertise in the design and implementation of scalable infrastructure solutions for complex environments at the US-Borax Valencia, Wilmington and Boron mining operations on Windows, HP-UX, SGI and Solaris environments.
- Provided deployment, networking (LAN/WAN/frame-relay) deployment and application support for Telecom billing and OAN services
Education
Advanced Diploma (with Honors) - Computer And Systems Engineering Technology
Computer And Systems Engineering - Computer And Systems Engineering
Skills
Technical consulting
Technical direction
Cybersecurity
Operating systems
Network configuration
Regulatory compliance
Process automation
Technical guidance
Project management
Skilled in operating systems
Accomplishments
- Documented and upgraded Oracle Job Control infrastructure from legacy Mcollective infrastructure to Choria based messaging which led to a 3 fold reduction of infrastructure count, uptime by a factor of 6, and a mean time response improvement by factor of 5.
- Migration of legacy cloud operations from domU/dom0 on legacy cloud infrastructure to updated Oracle Cloud infrastructure across 30 regions and 5 realms including 4 US Government FedRAMP/NIST/SCIF.
- Collaborated with team to consolidate various independent physical customer environments into one singular deployment for each realm, simplifying deployments, and promoting a single source for code.
Timeline
Technical Consultant IV
Oracle
03.2015 - 09.2026Read More
Infrastructure Consultant III
HP Enterprise Services
01.2001 - 03.2015Read More
Niagara College of Applied Arts And Technology
Advanced Diploma (with Honors) from Computer And Systems Engineering Technology
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Carleton University
Computer And Systems Engineering from Computer And Systems Engineering
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