Nick Herrick

About Nick Herrick

A seasoned product and engineering leader with 29 years of experience in the tech industry with a track record of leading and shipping successful products that have changed the world (O365, Azure AD, Oracle Cloud) 7 years building highly scalable, distributed, Tier 1 cloud services that back all OCI and Oracle cloud services control plane calls today.(> 1 million reads / second,> 100K writes / second) 7 years leading tier 1 service teams as an engineering manager of managers. 12 years as a Product Manager delivering O365, Azure AD, Azure Marketplace. 6 years of experience developing software and services as an individual contributor. Practiced in building & operating profitable, high scale and highly available large scale T1 distributed systems. Drove OCI VM throughput scale for the entire cloud up by a factor of 15x exceeding Gartner VM throughput goals on all measures. Drove a 2.5x increase in Oracle Big Data Service revenue in one year.

Experience

1. Sr Director of Engineering

   Oracle

   Nov 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leads the Oracle Big Data (BDS) team - Oracle Big Data Service is a fully managed, automated cloud service that provides enterprises with a cost-effective Big Data environment. Customers easily create secure and scalable Spark, Hive, Kafka, Flink, HBASE, and Trino clusters that can quickly process large amounts of data.• Led the service to a 2.5x increase in revenue in a year. • Led service scaling efforts to support 10x scale (clusters with 10x size and scale load) • Led expansion of the BDS service to all regions globally (over 40 regions including gov regions)• Grew the team by 10% globally in US, Mexico and India - enabling a 24x7 DEV and Devops cycle. • Drove down service costs by 40% increasing service bottom line revenue.

Education

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering

  1990 — 1995

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Business Intelligence
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Rest
• Program Management
• German
• Active Directory
• Windows Azure
• Pmp
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Products
• Cloud Computing
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Identity Management
• Sql
• Office 365
• Microsoft Fim
• Project Management
• Scrum
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• IT Strategy
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Microsoft Technologies
• Saas
• Powershell