Oracle Ace Director
Eric Helmer is the Vice President for Linium Infrastructure Services for their Oracle consulting practice. He has
extensive experience managing large complex corporate IT implementations. In the last eight years, Eric has
specialized on delivering successful corporate integrated Oracle EPM and
Business Intelligence IT projects throughout the US, England, Ireland, India,
Singapore, and Thailand.
Eric is the author of the popular Hyperion IT related blog: The I.T. Side
Mr. Helmer has
provided technical consulting services for many of the fortune 500 in every
aspect of Oracle EPM implementations including global architecture/design,
installation/configuration, backup/recovery, high availability, and customized
IT educational services. He has been involved in most of Oracle’s largest EPM
implementations in its history.
Eric’s Masters degree
in IT Management adds to his strong business background of corporate computing
environments including business process analysis, ERP systems, Identity
management, Data Warehousing, and complex IT project management.
Mr. Helmer is equally
effective in a senior IT leadership role in the CIO’s office as well as an
individual technical contributor and IT staff mentor. A frequent invited
session speaker and expert panel member at Hyperion Solutions, Oracle Open World, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, Collaborate, EPM Connection Point, conferences, as well as local user group meetings across the nation. His breath of business education and technical
skillets makes Eric one of the most sought after corporate trusted advisors
today. Mr. Helmer:
-
holds a Master degree in IT Management
- holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science
- is a graduate of Oracle university for database
administration
- is a graduate of Cisco University for network
administration
- is a certified Solaris Administrator. i
- s a certified Solaris Network Administration
Skills include large complex
architecture blueprint design, technical assessment workshops, high
availability/clustering, SSL and data encryption, disaster recovery, identity
management, performance/stability tuning, transformation road mapping, and
Influential technical presentations/documentation.
Eric also specializes
in customized IT training. He has trained world class IT support groups to be completely
autonomous by offering a suite of knowledge transfer classes on Oracle design,
installation, methodology, automation, backup/recovery, high availability, and
advanced troubleshooting.
The Oracle Corporation
has awarded Eric the title of Oracle ACE Director in 2009 and has
been spotlighted in Oracle Magazine. He also is a current board member and
domain lead on the Oracle Application Users Group (OAUG), Hyperion Special Interest Group, and is helping lead efforts in the new regional OAUG Connection Point® conferences
launching in February 2010.
Applications
Database administration, ERP Systems (SAP, PeopleSoft), Web application servers (Websphere, JRUN), Financial reporting systems (Viador, Hyperion), ETL (PowerMart, Mercator), Scheduling (ESPX/MQ), Monitoring systems (BMC Patrol/Tivoli), High availability (Veritas Cluster Server/HACMP), Database administration (Oracle, SqlServer)
Oracle/Hyperion
Large financial reporting and analysis systems; Essbase, Analyzer, Reports, Planning,
System 9; EDS, EES, EAS; External authentication, usage monitoring, design, security,high availibility, hardware sizing
Project skills
Project management, metrics gathering, team leadership and training, quality management, fluent in both technical and business communication, technical documentation and presentation; Member Project Management Institute (PMI), Oracle ACE
Technical
Unix shell scripting, Enterprise architecture and design, performance tuning, capacity planning, Senior Unix enterprise administration, high availability and clustering, performance, web-based solutions. ISO9001/CMM quality standards