Pat Shepherd Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, US

• I am an integral part of the Market Development Solutions team, driving the adoption of our innovative Cloud Data Platform (CDP). My "can-do" attitude and willingness to take on any challenge have been key in designing.
• Training Delivery: I excel at developing and delivering comprehensive, cloud-use case-driven training to sellers, both virtually and in-person across key hubs such as Boston, Austin, and Orlando.
• Event Management: Help plan and executed customer facing webinars and in-person events cuch as Informatica World 2024 in Vegas, where I showcased our Autonomous Database (ADB) and AI/ML demos.
• Seller Enablement: Conducted numerous seller trainings on a wide range of topics, including Build with GenAI and ML in Data Platform, Autonomous Database, Intelligent Document Processing, MySQL, and Open Source Data.
• Field Bootcamp Trainings: Played a vital role in helping to plan, as well as presenting database consolidation on Exadata and WebLogic modernization to the sales force.
• Rep Certification Program: Provided valuable feedback and evaluations for Cloud Reps pitches, ensuring a strong understanding of "Why OCI", "CDP", and "AI+ML".

Austin, Texas, US

Lead member of Competitive Specialist team focused on helping sales team with competitive positioning against the other lead CSP's (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) influenced over $18M of opportunities with our competitive analysis, TCO comparisons, advice and strategic competitive positioning. Our team helped win numerous opportunities and grew the average deal.

Austin, Texas, US

Lead BD for the NA Integration pillar encompassing both application (OIC, API Platform) and data integration (OCI Data Integration). Created and orchestrate a broad range of strategic business development programs including (1) FY Sales Plays for field execution (2) direct support of account strategy/planning/execution, (3) numerous field-enablement.

Austin, Texas, US

In this position, I was part of the team that develops broad strategies to drive Oracle PaaS adoption. In this capacity I create, manage, and monitor programs to drive those strategies including training programs for Sales Reps across N. America, execution of Customer API/Integration Summits across N. America, and creation of animated internal Chalk Talk.

Austin, Texas, US

• As an Oracle Enterprise Architect (OEA) and Cloud Specialist, I work with broad range of customers throughout numerous geographies applying Enterprise Architecture (EA) methodologies to better align Business Strategy.
• Leadership
• Teamwork/Team Player
• Mentoring
• First Rate Communicator/Presenter
• Deep Technical and Cross-industry Expertise

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As a Solution Architect, I worked with a number of the largest companies in the US (including Verizon, CapitalOne, GEICO, etc…) to help define future state architectures and approaches to solving business challenges using the entire portfolio of BEA products and capabilities including WebLogic Server (WLS), WebLogic Workshop (WLW), WebLogic Portal (WLP).

As Director of Emerging Technology and CTO, I was responsible for the oversight of all of the major Java/J2EE development efforts including a major J2EE application for a large Government agency which included ability to use Dallas Semiconductor’s Java iButton for advanced digital signature of data for non-repudiation. I managed the hiring and leading of a.