RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

.....note to self....don't visit Austin during the months of May thru August.  

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Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Nope. It means that it's hot as heck and humid as heck and it makes you wonder why did you turn down
that job offer in Anchorage.    

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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 


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Mercadante, Thomas F
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:45 AM
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ummm.. if it's 100% humidity, doesn't that mean it's raining ..   or misting
.  or something?
 
I can't imagine it being 100degrees and raining.
 

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Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:25 AM
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dry heat??
 
Not sure about Austin, but I have some co-workers in Dallas where they say
it's 100x100: 100 degrees with 100% humidity.......
greg

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Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:05 AM
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I really like that "no DBA left behind" program of yours, but TX is too hot
for me. I know it's a dry heat
but nevertheless, I do prefer colder climate. You can keep the Dixie Chicks.
 
 
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA 


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JApplewhite_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:25 PM
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David forgot to mention a couple of things about working for AISD: 


- We don't wear neckties (well, David does sometimes). 

- We get 23 paid Holidays (how does 2 weeks off for Christmas and a week off

for Spring Break sound?). 


- We have an unlimited site license for Oracle EE.  I slap databases out

there as needed without a second thought. 


- Before he became MIS Director, David was an Oracle DBA and a UNIX Sys

Admin before that, so he really understands the technology and the
challenges. 


- Did I mention that we don't wear neckties? 


AISD's infrastructure is truly awesome.  The fiber WAN allows our
widely-scattered users to connect dependably to our databases and me to push
tons of data around quickly and reliably.  All the UNIX  and other servers
(not to mention our Users' PCs) are either brand new or about 3 years or
less old.  The oldest Oracle databases we have are 8.1.7.0.0 and we've
already started upgrading to 9.2.0.4.0.  We'll be moving our only Win2k
database to HP-UX in the next few months.  All the other DBs are already on
either HP-UX or Linux. 

We've got a couple of less-than-perfect 3rd Party COTS applications for
Financials and Student Information, but we're rapidly applying Oracle
features to improve them and add functionality their producers never even
thought of, as well as providing Web-enabled access to our thousands of AISD
users and the Community at large.  Our Developers have hardly a Duh(veloper)
among them and their supervisor is top-notch, too.  An all-round great bunch
of folks to work with District-wide. 

I've been with AISD for 15 months - my first Public Sector gig ever - and
I'm loving it.  Also, with the Economy the way it is (and will be for a
while to come), this Public Sector organization is very competitive in
salary and benefits with the Private Sector.  I know, I shopped around and
got other offers before coming here. 

Oh, and Austin being the "Live Music Capital of the World" doesn't hurt,
either.  And I certainly don't want to forget the part about not having to
wear a necktie!

Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator
Austin Independent School District
Austin, Texas
512.414.9715 (wk)
512.935.5929 (pager, 5129355929_at_page.metrocall.com)
JApplewhite_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu




	DBarbour_at_austin.isd.tenet.edu 
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09/23/2003 03:39 PM 
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With permission from Jared:

'Needed' is kind of strong.  We've got a position open, but we're not real
needy folks.  We're a school district.  The 37th (depending on the day of
the week) largest in the United States.  If we were a business, it'd be
pretty good-sized.  Our annual operating budget is 730 million dollars plus
(of which MIS gets a really small, tiny, little itty bit), we have 15,000
employees, 130 branch offices, our own police force and post office.  We
fix 150,000 meals a day and need to collect cash or validate for every
person through the cafeterias.  We're moving from a mainframe environment
to client-server computing with an Oracle back-end running on HPUX and
Linux for both our student data and ERP systems. It's a pretty dynamic
shop.  We've got 40 or so people (depending on the day of the week) split
into three areas, business systems, student systems and programming.  We
don't do the network piece, but that's solid - switched gigabit ethernet
running on over 300 miles of fiber with 100MB to the desktop.

I don't hire or set salaries.  HR does that.  I only recommend.  The salary
for this position will be somewhere between $60K and $80K depending on
experience (and whatever bizarre decisions are reached by the compensation
analyst).

You've got to be REAL strong in backup and recovery.  And curious.  We're
planning to go where no school district (or very few) has gone before.
Your assistance will be vital in making the investment Austin has made in
technology pay off.

If you've got any questions, please send me an email.  If you'd like to
apply, you can do so on-line at

http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/about/hr/search/index.phtml

Under 'classified' positions, see if you can find the DBA position.  If it
isn't there (depending on the day of the week), and you can't possibly
wait, apply for either the Programmer/Analyst or UNIX Admin position.  It
should be there sometime after 4pm CDT, or maybe tomorrow, or maybe not.
[We don't do the Internet piece - yet].


David A. Barbour
Director, Management Information Services
AISD

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