John is an Oracle ACE Associate with over a decade of experience in Oracle Cloud platforms. As a Technical Architect and Consulting Director at Huron Consulting Group, he specializes in implementing Oracle data management and analytics solutions, focusing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Fusion Data Intelligence, and Fusion Application platforms. John has been working on Oracle Data Management and Analytics solutions for over twenty years. His expertise includes solution architecture, data integration, data lakes, data warehousing, and Oracle cloud data management and analytics products, including OAC, Fusion Data Intelligence, ADW, OTBI, BI Publisher, Data Transforms, and OCI Data Integration Service. John holds an MBA in Analytics (UMass Amherst), an MS in Engineering (UT Austin), and a BS in Engineering (UC Berkeley). He is an active blogger (www.theanalyticsace.com, www.linkedin.com/in/johnwhitakerace) and conference speaker.