Cedric Tucker

Cedric Tucker is the Co-Founder & CTO at Optimis. Cedric has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry and has held positions at Signature Consultants for Bank of America, NA and SunGard.

At Signature Consultants for Bank of America, NA, Cedric implemented and maintained Bank of America's Linux environment for their Card and Deposits department. Cedric also worked to create a streamlined and efficient process on how Oracle DB's used SAN storage, which decreased server downtime by 70%. In addition, Cedric assisted in the process to validate and test Linux Build templates that helped stabilize the companies virtual server pool.

At SunGard, Cedric directed UNIX and Windows Engineers supporting a high availability Managed Services environment. Cedric served as the lead technical resource for all Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux issues. Cedric co-led the effort to migrate customers from Solaris to Linux, which provided customers with a 65% hardware cost savings. Cedric also established and supported storage environments which included creating/allocating SAN LUN’s and backup architecture configuration. This improved application efficiency and saved customers 30% from previous years storage cost.

Cedric has also acted as a technical resource for High profile Disaster Recovery exercises with an overall 90% success rate. Cedric has interfaced with customers to provide solid solutions to their UNIX and storage problems for 7 high profile customers. Cedric has also trained administrators on UNIX/Linux fundamentals.

Cedric Tucker has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management, General from California Coast University.

Cedric Tucker reports to Chris Rivers, Founder & CEO.