Eric Barcelo Monroy

Thomas Erl is a best-selling IT author who has authored and co-authored 15 books published by Prentice Hall and Pearson Education and dedicated to topics focused on contemporary information technology and practices. These titles were delivered for the Pearson Digital Enterprise Series from Thomas Erl, for which Thomas also acts as series editor. Thomas is the host of the "Real Digital Transformation" podcast series (available via Spotify, Apple, Google Podcasts, and most other platforms) and also contributes regular articles via his weekly LinkedIn newsletter, "The Digital Enterprise." Over 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including CEO World, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and CIO Magazine. Thomas has also toured over 20 countries as a keynote speaker for various conferences and events. As founder and president of Arcitura Education (www.arcitura.com), Thomas also leads the development of curricula for internationally recognized, vendor-neutral training and accreditation programs. Arcitura's portfolio currently consists of over 100 courses, over 90 Pearson VUE exams and over 40 certification tracks, covering topics such as Digital Transformation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), DevOps, Blockchain, IoT, Containerization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics.

Eric Barcelo is a top IT technology professional and IT author focused on cloud computing topics. Eric has designed, deployed, and managed companies' main computer and telecommunications networks, data centers, managed services, and cloud computing contracts. Eric has planned, engineered, and supported infrastructure technologies in Internet ecommerce environments, and further oversaw application security, network security, configuration and asset inventory management data, SLAs for Cloud infrastructure, platform, and storage services. Eric developed, implemented, and supported numerous ERP, Call Center, and Web-based enterprise applications, and also created emergency mirror site, preparedness programs and disaster recovery plans with Cloud Computing services included. He has further designed web hosting architectures; researched and selected hardware, hosting, and cloud providers; managed in-house telecommunications initiatives; and coordinated negotiations, service levels, and implementation schedules with vendors and resellers.