Eric Gatchalian

About Eric Gatchalian

A multifaceted Information Technology and digital media professional with demonstrated expertise in the design, implementation, and management of mission-critical, global enterprise IT infrastructure and application environments. Utilizes extensive experience in the industry and insight from associational thinking to engage business change, by empowering people through technology innovation and process automation. An adaptable leader who challenges an organization to move forward continually, while learning and improving.Exceptional problem solving skills and quick learning aptitude enables me to confidently tackle any challenge.Prior collaborations include Analex, Ardent Computer (Stardent, Kubota Pacific), AT & T (Bell Labs, Pixel Machines), Babcock & Wilcox (BWX Technologies, McDermott Research), Blackpants Design Group, Bombardier Transportation, Columbus Fashion Council, Community of Minds, Dana, Emerson (Fisher Controls, Shafer Valve), ExxonMobil (Advanced Elastomer Systems), Fashion Week Columbus, Goodyear, Great Lakes Science Center, Hewlett-Packard (Mechanical Design Division, CoCreate), MACtac, Makino, Olympus (Gyrus ACMI), ScripType Publishing, Studio Mantra, Technicolor (Thomson Multimedia), Vertere, and miscellaneous others.GLOBAL IT INFRASTRUCTURE SME:• Enterprise IT Systems Architecture• Linux/UNIX Systems Engineering (Oracle, Red Hat, HP-UX, AIX)• Database Systems (Oracle Exadata/PCA, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL)• Middleware Platforms (WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, NetWeaver, SOA, Apache/NGINX)• High Availability (Oracle RAC, HPE Serviceguard, F5 BIG-IP load balancing)• High Performance Computing (compute clusters, FEA, CFD)• Virtualization/Cloud Platforms (VMware, Oracle VM, Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure)• Enterprise Storage (Pure Storage, IBM, EMC, HPE, Hitachi, Infinidat)• Data Protection (Veeam, NetBackup, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, HPE Data Protector)• Enterprise Monitoring (SolarWinds, Zabbix, Nagios, HPE OpenView)• Enterprise Automation (Red Hat Satellite, Oracle Linux Manager/Spacewalk, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Ansible AWX)• Workload Scheduling (BMC Control-M, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler)• GRC (Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry, OpenSCAP)• Cyber Security• Open Source software• Microsoft infrastructure integration• Data Center Operations• Disaster Recovery• Project Planning• Team Development, Mentoring & Leadership• Rapid Prototyping & Application Development• Shell Scripting & Systems Programming• Software Engineering• Digital Media Applications• Photography, Audio, Video• Apple macOS and iOS platforms

Experience

1. Global IT Infrastructure, Linux Unix Engineering

   Babcock & Wilcox

   Mar 2025 — Present · Akron, OH, US

Education

• The Ohio State University

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Information Science

  1980 — 1985