October 10th is my last day as an Oracle DBA. After that – I start working as a person who provides technical resources to all of our staff over seas.
When a lot of people hear IT – they immediately think help desk. I’ve never done help desk. I’ve been a developer and done lots of application admin type stuff over the years – but no help desk. I end up in that role on an informal basis every so often, but I think everybody in my line of work runs into that.
The team I am joining, the Global Technology Office, is not all that big. So everybody pitches in wherever they are needed. It can mean lots of things. But what I’ve been told will be my little niche is providing help to developers outside the US that want to interface their systems with ours. An example would be someone out there trying to get WordPress or Drupal working with our identity management system.
This means I get to spend a lot of time focusing on stuff I really want to do – working with open source software. I can’t wait. It also means lots more working with MySQL. You have to take the bad with the good I guess. I’m stoked though – this is going to be really cool.
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There has been a ton going on in my life, so much so that I haven’t had much time to get over here and post about any of it. So what is all this stuff?
Well, I made some major headway in the last couple months on a decent sized project I’ve been working on for the Jesus Film Project. I am in the processing of taking their Oracle 9i database running on Windows and moving it to 10g on Linux, while at the same time splitting it into 4 databases, for various functions.
I’ve also finalized all the paperwork and had official approval of my move from ITG to GTO. This is all within Crusade, and in fact I only move physically a few cubicle rows over. But for me it means a huge shift in what I do at work. Well- huge but still IT related. Instead of being a full time Oracle DBA, I will be doing all kinds of work to support our staff over seas. I will get to play with a lot of Open Source web technologies and I am very, very excited about that.
Then there is the normal life stuff. Family is the biggest of course and I’m very blessed to have a beautiful wife and kids at home. As the children grow it is awesome to see themselves become more and more their own person. Very neat.
I’ll have more details on the stuff above soon.
