About

Brendan Howes is a Solutions Architect at Oracle OCI/BMCS with over 23 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He is currently serving as an Outbound Solutions Architect for the Oracle Digital Business Unit, where he works on the largest and most strategic accounts for the company. Brendan provides technical aspects to customer intro calls, reviews architectures, and helps break down customer's process to transitioning workloads to OCI. His success is defined by increased customer usage, customer references, and net new customers, and he has consistently met or exceeded his targets. Brendan was also part of the founding team of the TAM/Solutions Architect practice for the team covering OD, which was very successful in driving usage to top customers in the program. He covered the SA part of the role while the TAM pipelines and organized all the customer projects, support issues, training, and escalations. The SA part of the role was to technically review, break down projects, and identify potential pitfalls. Prior to his current role, Brendan worked as a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle, where he was responsible for creating complete technical end-to-end solutions guides for general technical audiences. He also developed enablement content, training, and certification material, including content on orchestration templates, Terraform, network virtualization, NAT, peering, advanced networking, basic and intermediate database services, autonomous database, general automation tools, and more. Before joining Oracle, Brendan served as a Solutions Architect NSBU at VMware, where he worked on various projects related to infrastructure. He holds a BS in Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from The College of New Jersey/Trenton State College. Brendan's tech stack includes senior software engineering, Terraform, product management, data warehousing, and infrastructure.