{"id":2,"date":"2010-03-20T22:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T22:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-06-06T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:24:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goal with this blog is to talk about and document various things I  find interesting in my professional life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been an Oracle Apps DBA (aka Oracle E-Business Suite) since  1997.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been an a RedHat Linux administrator for about 5 years.\u00a0  I&#8217;ve been focusing in the past year or two on running Oracle on Linux  under VMWare (ESX, vSphere, Workstation).\u00a0 I think to be a great Apps  DBA, one needs to understand each of these technologies so they can  leverage their strengths to end up with a fast stable and effective  system.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 2010, I hold the following certifications<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle:<\/strong> I&#8217;m an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) in Oracle Database 7,8,8i,9i,10g, and 11g.\u00a0 I hold a special accreditation in Managing Oracle9i on Linux and Oracle&#8217;s certifications specific to Oracle Applications DBAs:\u00a0 Oracle 11i Install, Patch and Maintain Applications\u00a0 and Oracle 12i Install, Patch and Maintain Applications<\/p>\n<p><strong>VMware:<\/strong> VMware recognized vExpert for 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun Solaris: <\/strong>Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) on Solaris 2.5\u00a0 (SCSA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redhat Linux: <\/strong>RedHat Certified Technician on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 and 5<strong>. <\/strong>RedHat Certified Engineer on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently working on earning MySQL and Oracle VM certifications.\u00a0 Once I have a chance to fulfill the classroom obligation, I plan to earn VMware VCP and VCAP4 Datacenter Administration certifications.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work I try to be the best husband and kitty dad I can be and spend my time training for long distance triathlon (9 Ironman finishes) and other endurance sports.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently awaiting certification of my Guinness World Record for fastest marathon ever performed dressed as a leprechaun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/61278-1196-023f1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22\" title=\"61278-1196-023f\" src=\"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/61278-1196-023f1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/61278-1196-023f1-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/61278-1196-023f1-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/61278-1196-023f1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why yes, I do have an odd sense of fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goal with this blog is to talk about and document various things I find interesting in my professional life. I&#8217;ve been an Oracle Apps DBA (aka Oracle E-Business Suite) since 1997.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been an a RedHat Linux administrator for about 5 years.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been focusing in the past year or two on running Oracle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About J<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weinshenker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}