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Vermont IT Jobs: Oracle Database Admin at Burton Snowboards

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Oracle Database Administrator
 
Burton Snowbards is looking for a talented, senior-level Oracle Database administrator to join our fast-paced IT team to manage our enterprise database systems. This position requires a broad set of skills and will be responsible for designing, installing, configuring, documenting, and supporting Oracle databases in an SAP environment.
 
Responsibilities include installing and configuring software, applying patches, disaster recovery processes, backup and recovery procedures, capacity planning, and regular maintenance tasks. Maintaining database availability, including: monitoring, alerting, and proactively maintaining databases to avoid loss of database access and availability. Database performance tuning-including analysis, performance optimization, and memory management. Experience with Oracle-specific backup, refresh, and restore procedures is essential.
 
A Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field and a minimum of 3 years of senior level experience managing Oracle databases in an enterprise ERP environment is required. Demonstrated experience with planning, designing, configuring, installing, and troubleshooting Oracle 9i/10g is needed. Preferred candidates will be well-versed in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, UNIX shell scripting, and logical/physical data design and modeling. Familiarity with HP-UX/ Linux file systems and SAN environments is a plus. This position requires strong oral, written and organization skills, excellent time and project management skills, and a strong ability to prioritize tasks.
 
Please apply through our online application system at www.burton.com
Burton Snowboards
80 Industrial Parkway
Burlington, VT 05401
802 862 4500

Going to TechEd Europe or DevConnections? Don’t forget to vote!

Just Rambling

The U.S. elections are Nov 7th. There are two big conferences next week in our community: TechEd Europe in Barcelona, Spain and DevConnections in Las Vegas, Nevada.

If you are leaving home for these events, don’t forget to vote before you go!

In Vermont, absentee voting is allowed for 30 days prior to the elections. I’m not sure how this differs in other states. Here, you can get an absentee ballot in the mail from your town clerk (which needs to be back to the town clerk by Nov 6th, or to the polling place by 7pm on Nov 7th) or just go there and vote. I went to the town office and just sat down and voted there.

It didn’t occur to me to do this until about a week ago even though I’ve known for a long time that I’d be gone. I just hadn’t put two & two together!

Yeah, I guess they all just look alike to me

Community Cheerleading

Noah Coad was a  student ambassador and an MVP when I first met him a few years ago. You could easily describe him as a young, eager, bright and clean-cut kid.

So was Ian Ceicys!

I see both of them occasionally at Microsoft events such as the MVP Summit or TechEds, 

Both of these young men got sucked up by Microsoft when they graduated from college.

(I am feeling older with every sentence – egad!)

I don’t think I have ever seen them together which is the likely reason that somehow they had blended into the same person in my mind.

When I saw Ian at the New England Code Camp last weekend and asked him why he was in Boston and how his Microsoft job was going, he gave all the right responses – it could have just as easily been Noah – which is the mistake I made. I even blogged about it. Oops.

So here I am putting their pics side by side and now the difference is a little more obvious! Sorry guys!

Noah

Ian


A new Developer Evangelist for New England .NET Devs

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Though we selfishly were sad to see Thom Robbins leave the D.E. position for New England, the local community was thrilled to see him move to an awesome new job at Microsoft. But the big question was who on earth could fill his shoes?

Happily, Thom has made a wonderful choice in a successor. Chris Bowen, a local developer who has been very involved in the community and someone for whom I have always had a ton of respect, will be our new D.E.

Thanks Thom! Thanks Chris!

Code Camp 6 Devs on a Plane Rehash

Just Rambling

Code Camp 6 was this past Saturday. It started out with a somewhat nervewracking 200 mile drive to Waltham due to torrential rainstorms and high winds. But I had a fun companion in the car who kept me well entertained throughout – Dave Burke, who was ridiculously kind when I was adamant that we needed to go south on Route 91 (totally wrong) and let me get away with it for 10 miles before I let him convince me to turn around. I suppose it’s one thing to deal with female logic when it’s your wife, but a totally different conundrum when it’s another chick.

When we arrived at the event on Saturday morning, I learned some wonderful news. Athough we are all sad to see Thom Robbins go (and thrilled at his new job at Microsoft) he made a fantastic choice for our new Developer Evangelist in Chris Bowen. Chris is a local guy who has been involved with the .NET community in Boston for a long time and is someone I have a huge amount of respect for. So I was very happy to hear this great news.

Since people quickly disappear into the conference rooms, it’s always hard to tell how many are really there, but at lunch time, it certainly seemed like major swarms of people heading for the pizza. I did only two of my three talks. As I expected, the Persisting Ink on the Web talk, which I was hoping to practice prior to Mobile Connections in a few weeks was waaaaaay to narrow so nobody showed up. But the Managing and Deploying ASP.NET 2.0 Websites and Moving Big Data with ADO.NET 2.0 talks were both well attended.

I spent most of my free time futzing with the impact of the “click here to activate and use this control” issue that is now a permanent part of IE7 and has a big impact on the embedded winforms controls that I use to do ink on the web, rather than sitting in on other talks, so I missed out on Richard Hale Shaw’s C# talks where I’m sure he couldn’t resist a dig or two against VB ;-).

There were a bunch of VTdotNETters there which is always great to see.

The other very nice surprise was seeing Noah Coad who I have known for a number of years, originally through the MVP academic community. He has been at Microsoft for a while now (they scooped him up the day he graduated from college), but I didn’t realize he had recently moved to the east coast. So I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of him.

When all was said and done, Dave and I hopped in the car for the drive back to Vermont in what was thankfully great weather on a beautiful fall night.

Scott Guthrie and Brian Goldfarb’s ASPConnections Keynote

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DevConnections (combination of 6 conferences: ASP, Visual Studio, Mobile, Sharepoint, SQL Server and Office) is only a few weeks away. I’m going out to present 2 sessions for ASP Connections (Managing & Deploying ASP.NET 2 Sites and Asynchronous ASP.NET), one for Mobile Connections (an advanced Ink on the Web talk) and a 1/2 day post-conference workshop on Advanced ADO.NET 2.0.

I’m sorely disappointed that my flight schedule is having me miss the Monday night keynotes, especially this one that Scott Guthrie and Brian Goldfarb are giving: Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and ASP.NET AJAX.

There is going to be so much going on at DevConnections, including some Microsoft “hear it for the first time in the U.S.”) announcements from Microsoft. I hope I don’t end up holing myself up in my room trying to perfect my talks again (so that means they need to be perfect before I go to the airport! :-)). Of course, there’s always the lure of the gambling tables and the girlie shows (just kidding – not really interested in either), but still Vegas is certainly a fun place to be when you do want to take a little break from the geek fest!