Company Info for telus.com | IcebreakerMembers
With the thorough understandings of data, application & network architecture, Eric has developed & proven a set of approaches to improve the performance & ROI by 50%~200% based on the company's existing big data infrastructure.
His 1st philosophy is to make the best use of the tools and to create better tools, as he has witnessed many poor project results simply because everyone expects the out-of-box features to satisfy all the requirements, yet few are willing to to deep dive into the tool and explore its full potential.
We often debates about which tool is the best, yet Eric believes that it is crucial to provide the valuable consulting and eduction to enable more team members and clients to make the full use of the existing tools and investments, instead of being allured by the marketing brochures and then jumping from one suboptimal solution to another bad one.
His 2nd philosophy is to focus on leveraging metadata and mashup/federation to streamline & automate the process in data management. Big Data landscape is very vendor-diversified, so productivity can be dramatically increased by gluing various tools together.
His 3rd philosophy is about balanced configuration cross the whole system to achieve optimal utilization, because the overall performance is determined by the slowest part of the system. It is an art to allocate the proper $ and computing power through storage, network, I/O bus, OS, memory, application buffer/cache, and CPU; it is a dedication to re-balance them as workloads change.
Eric enjoys discovering insights from data lake, building high performance data pipelines, and crafting handy data tools. 
