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As a Technical Sales Consultant, my main role was to present Oracle technologies with
the focus on helping sell the products and services to prospective clients. I was assigned
to one company; however it was one of the largest in the world, Ford Motor Company.
This was my first position after the training program, so I was very green, but anxious to perform.
At the time in 1997, I wanted to focus on the internet applications and Windows NT but they weren't the
biggest needs at the time. My immediate boss told me to pick something that the other
team members are not too familiar with and become the local expert at it.
Since I choose Windows NT, I started doing a lot of presentations of Oracle on NT at the Ford/Oracle
user groups (after I served some time as the bagel and juice person). It turned out one of the common
issues people had at Ford is that they would design prototypes using MS Access but they'd have
to convert them to Oracle down the road. Fortunately, Oracle has a pretty good tool for migrating Access,
and I became the local expert in the tool and the conversion process.
As for the internet technologies, I started learning about the Oracle Web Application Server (WAS, now iAS)
when the first release was in early beta. I wrote some small PL/SQL web applications and learned about
Oracle Designer and how it can generate PL/SQL web applications.
In order to really learn more about the products, I had to make a fully functioning application
and go through the hardships that I was lucky enough to avoid when creating simple demos. So,
I created the Asset Tracking System at the request of my supervisor and also the Ford/Oracle Task
System.
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- Oracle7/8
- PL/SQL Web Extensions
- Web Application Server (now Oracle Internet Application Server)
- Designer, Developer Forms & Reports
- Various Oracle migration tools (Accees, DBase, etc.)
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