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Rick Goudeau

Rick is also one of the original founders of Clear Winds Technologies and has been with the firm since its inception. His primary role at Clear Winds is Principal Engineer consisting of mostly database-related activities. His experience covers several industry segments including retail, banking, healthcare, manufacturing and utilities.

Rick holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida. He also holds current certifications in Oracle products (OCP) to stay current with leading technologies.

Rick has been working professionally in the technology field since 1977 and started his first DBA role in 1980. He has held various positions including Project Manager, Senior Engineer/Architect and Consultant. Rick has been supporting Oracle databases in enterprise environments since 1990. He also has some expertise in SQL Server and DB2 databases. Some of his accomplishments include


  Serving as the primary designer for several database projects including: employee time keeping, fuel accounting, power plant work orders, worker's compensation claim tracking, system capacity and transmission line pricing, work order (job) tracking for distribution crews and materials management system.

  Setting up Oracle Applications for 11i and supporting the database component of PeopleSoft HR and Financials applications.

  Designing database structures and tuning existing databases for optimal performance and uptime.

  Designing and implementing enterprise backup systems, redundant systems and disaster recovery systems applying technologies such as clustering, Dataguard and RMAN

  Assisting a financial services company in upgrading its Oracle databases from versions 8i and 9i to 10g. These databases serve a distributed application provided to the banking industry.