A change of career after 29 years working with Oracle databases

I have worked with Oracle since the early 90’s. I did work on V6 but I do not remember that much about it. V7.3 was were I had a big learning curve. This book was the mainstay of my life at that time.

In recent years I have diversified into managing teams across a number of areas including SQLServer, Middleware (ODI, SOA, JMS, Weblogic), System Management and others. I have been quite involved in both Oracle and Microsoft licensing which leads me neatly onto my new role.

I have now moved to being the Software Asset Manager for my company and I am also taking the opportunity to move to a 3 day week. For someone who started work at 16 and has never had any time out to suddenly have 2 days a week free is quite momentous.

I am really enthused by the new opportunity and will definitely involve myself as deeply as possible in trying to understand the nuances of managing software across a large organisation.

One of the nicer aspects is that I will no longer be on-call or expected to be contactable in the event of production issues. I have probably been on call for at least 20 of the 29 years – possibly more

I have not updated this blog that much in the last 6 months or so and I think new posts will be infrequent going forward but I will still be working with the DBA team so if I hear of any interesting activities I will post them up.