Eric Fouarge Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Code Your Dreams is a non-profit that provides a core focus to the underserved youth in Chicago to develop a passion for technology and providing a safe and creative outlet to learn and explore their ideas. Leveraging design thinking + traditional education techniques + computer science concepts students learn the full software development concepts.

Serve as an advisory member of the company engaging in strategic decisions on forward moving products and services offered by the business in the Infrastructure as a Service public cloud space. I also am heavily involved in helping drive emerging technology into the environment as well as engaging in complex customer engagements in architecture and.

Building and driving the Cloud Enablement cloud practice to scale into a $30mm+ organization focusing on bringing progressive technology and practices into emerging enterprises and startups alike. RLT's in a hypergrowth phase and I'm responsible for pushing the pace for 200% quarter over quarter growth!Core focuses are:- Reducing the time to Production.

Successfully built and grew the cloud enablement professional services organization from the ground up netting in a 100% growth of the overall company size and revenue.Delivered best in class migration and adoption frameworks for large enterprises leveraging progressive technologies such as Hashicorp Terraform, Vault, Consul, Google Cloud Platform.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Chicago, IL, US

Providing optimizations in the areas of AWS Cost Management, Development Efficiencies around optimizing the application delivery pipeline, as well as providing strategic scaling architecture decisions for the application and big data workflows. Core contributor in helping shape culture to facilitate a transition into a modern DevOps oriented engineering.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Responsible for full platform support, automation, architecture team for modern Big Data infrastructures leveraging Java, Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, Storm, Ruby on Rails, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Docker, Mesos, and modern distributed application delivery techinques leveraging the Atlassian Toolset as well as providing migration paths from recent company.

Chicago, Illinois, US

DevOps Team is responsible for application deployment and tier-3 support for our enterprise-level SaaS application used by Public Relations and Marketing professionals that has won multiple CODiE Awards for the last five consecutive years. Cision has recently built a Big Data infrastructure based on Hadoop, Solr and Mongo DB, and run a mixed environment.

Agoura Hills, CA, US

Responsible for the end-to-end network operations and health in SaaS application deployment.Responsible for Planning and Executing a full Datacenter move and relocation- This project entailed contract negotiation with the Colo-Provider, WAN Provider (Internap), physically moving and relocating the entire infrastructure and bringing the infrastructure back.

Lead engineer of infrastructure design and management for online backup and hosted Microsoft Exchange infrastructure.

Agoura Hills, CA, US

Sole network administrator to maintain the entire corporate network including remote offices in Switzerland, Germany, and California. I was also to maintain corporate Microsoft Exchange environment that required 100% up-time due to the multiple timezones and being a global company. I also provided tier 3 support for all of the backup products specializing.

Managed and Deployed Dentrix dental practice management system with fully integrated digital xray systems. Increased system stability by implementing a solid server infrastructure.Multi-Site Active Directory integration / Management20+ employee / workstation managementMaintain backup infrastructureIncreased the ability to tele-commute from site to site.

• Provide phone and e-mail support for rural and local internet customers to troubleshoot connectivity and e-mail related issues.Accomplishments:
• Was able to decrease the number of on-site service calls by resolving issues over the phone which lead to lower costs of overhead of having to send a service van on-site to address an issue.