Rutledge Patterson

Current

• Sr Director EDCS Grid Services at Oracle
• Sr ZDirector EDCS Grid Services at Oracle USA

Past

• IT Manager at Versatility
• VP Sales & Marketing at SOuth Jersey Informaytion Publishing

Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

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Industry

Computer Software

Rutledge Patterson’s Summary

Lead the ground up development of world class global automated delivery system for leading IT educator in the word. Reduced support costs to revenue 5 years in a row while flawlessly delivering 350,000 student environments to 53 countries in 26 languages with only 4 events impacting revenue. Finance,

Lead team delivering a totally automated virtual Grid infrastructure able to support all OS, application, HW blending 32 and 64 bit environments. System capable of provisioning hundreds of complex environments in milliseconds leveraging proactive self-healing event resolution to an impressive 67%

GRID Support services
Virtualization
Data center consolidation
HW utilization
Remote management
Process reengineering

Rutledge Patterson’s Specialties:

Charismatic leader experienced in Global remote management, country specific business cultures, M&A, automated Education technology and infrastructure, Automated Virtual GRID architecture, processes, HW consolidation and lights-out data center management. Virtual Automated Data Center management expert. Grid Infrastructure best practices SME.

Rutledge Patterson’s Experience

• Sr Director EDCS Grid Services

  Oracle

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; orcl; Computer Software industry)

  December 1998 — Present (9 years 11 months)

  Lead two global teams: one delivering IT support through managing a global courseware delivery system for Oracle University. Servicing 57 countries, 117 centers 6000 student station in addition to partner, on-site, OAI and customs events in 24 languages to 350,000 students a year; the other hosting applications, portals and databases for all Oracle LOBs. Transitioned Data Centers to an automated virtual Grid Infrastructure delivering almost instant provisioning while impressively increasing utilization and availability while dramatically reducing power and space consumption.

• Sr ZDirector EDCS Grid Services

  Oracle USA

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1998 — Present (10 years)

• IT Manager

  Versatility

  (Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

• VP Sales & Marketing

  SOuth Jersey Informaytion Publishing

  (Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1993 (4 years)

Rutledge Patterson’s Education

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

  Psychology, Business 1973 — 1975

  Foreign exchange student (Germany), advid athletic booster

  Activities and Societies:

  Yearbook editor, entertainment specialties, student job recruiting / placement

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