30+
Years of IT Experience
3
Cloud Platforms (AWS, OCI, Azure)
11
Specialized Services
4
Industry Certifications

The PES Story

Performance Effective Solutions was founded by Eric Vasquez, a Computer System Engineer (B.S., 1994) with over three decades of hands-on IT engineering. Eric built his career at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, enterprise databases, and intelligent automation — long before "multi-cloud" and "RAG" became industry buzzwords.

After years of watching consultancies sell frameworks to executives while junior engineers learned on the client's production systems, Eric founded PES on a simple principle: every engagement is led by a practitioner who has done the work — someone who has tuned Oracle Exadata at 3 AM, migrated terabyte-scale databases with zero downtime, and deployed CI/CD pipelines across three clouds simultaneously.

PES PERFORMANCE EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS

Founder & CEO: Eric Vasquez

Education

Bachelor's Degree — Computer System Engineer, 1994

Over 30 years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, database administration, automation, and security compliance.

Certifications

ITIL Foundation Certificate

IT Service Management · GR750052915EV · Since 04/11/2013

Verify at PeopleCert

OCI 2025 Foundations Associate

1Z0-1085-25 · Since 11/07/2025

Verify at Oracle University

Oracle AI Cloud Database Services 2025

Certified Professional · Since 01/23/2025

Verify at Oracle University

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Microsoft Certified · Since January 1, 2026

Verify at Microsoft Learn

Core Expertise

Cloud Platforms

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) — IaaS, PaaS, migration
  • Microsoft Azure — DevOps, Functions, Logic Apps, Blob Storage, Azure SQL
  • Amazon Web Services — EC2, IAM, CloudFront, Lambda, RDS

Database Technologies

  • Oracle EE 19c/18c/12c/11g, Exadata, RAC, ASM
  • MS SQL Server — instance, database, VM-based
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB Atlas
  • Performance tuning: AWR, ADDM, ASH, SQLT, TkProf

Intelligent Automation

  • Power Automate, Oracle Digital Assistant
  • Azure AI Services, workflow orchestration
  • Scripting: Python, Bash, KSH

Observability & Ops

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c/13c, TFA, Quest Foglight
  • Tableau, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub, ServiceNow

Security & Compliance

  • DBSAT, Guardium, Oracle Vault, TDE
  • TLS configuration, Oracle NNE, SQL Server Network Encryption
  • SIEM/SOAR: jSonar, Imperva, QRadar
  • Regulatory: SOX, PCI, GDPR, NIST, CCPA, HIPAA
  • Backup & DR: RMAN, ZDLRA, Dell PPDM, Data Guard, Fast Start Failover

Why This Matters for Clients

When you engage PES, you don't get a junior consultant working from a playbook. You get a founder-led engagement with someone who has operated at every layer of the stack — from bare-metal Exadata tuning to cloud-native CI/CD pipelines. That depth translates into faster delivery, fewer surprises, and solutions that work the first time.