Paul Forsgren

About Paul Forsgren

Paul is a distinguished sales, product management, and technical professional with over 15 years of experience in the information technology field in such areas as enterprise technology sales, technical (billable) consulting, sales consulting / engineering, product management, software development, and customer support. Paul has a unique ability to break down complicated technical concepts into business value for a wide variety of audiences from management to C-suite.He spent over 3 years at IBM in outbound product management and technical enablement, where he was responsible for taking a services-based custom data warehouse business and converting it to a product-based analytics solution for Medicaid and Medicare data warehouses across a variety of states.Paul spent 5 years in his first tour at Oracle Corporation in a variety of technical-business pre-sales and post-sales roles, and was known as an authority on relational database technology and implementation of enterprise scale database solutions. He was noted for his ability to translate technology into business value to drive revenue for Oracle and increase customer satisfaction with our products.Currently Paul is an Outbound Product Manager in the Mission Critical Database Cloud group, where he is responsible for business product management, business development, and expansion of current business for our next generation database cloud services such as Autonomous Database (Dedicated), Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, Exascale, and others.

Experience

1. Exadata Sales Specialist - Manufacturing Transportation Logistics Vertical

   Oracle

   Dec 2025 — Present · Cleveland, OH, US

   Engage with customers in the manufacturing, transportation, and logistics sectors to design cloud solutions using Exadata Database Service. • Provide expertise in on-premises hardware solutions, including Exadata and Oracle Database Appliance. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and optimal performance of database solutions in on-premises, OCI, and Database@hyperscaler environments.

Education

• The Ohio State University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government

  2007

Skills

• Linux
• Performance Tuning
• Weblogic
• Hadoop
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Sqoop
• Cluster
• Hive
• Oracle Asm
• Exadata
• Hbase
• Databases
• Solution Architecture
• Ccah
• Obiee
• Enterprise Software
• Business Intelligence
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Pig
• Microsoft Sql Server
• High Availability
• Oracle Rac
• Goldengate
• Big Data
• Data Guard
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Data Migration
• Architecture
• Sql Tuning