{"id":7233,"date":"2022-07-14T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2022-07-14T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:34:41","slug":"day-in-the-life-oracle-technical-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/day-in-the-life-oracle-technical-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"Day in the Life of an Oracle Technical Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Rishin – A Senior Technical Consultant in our ERP Managed Services Department here at Version 1
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What are your background and qualifications? What led you to the career path you\u2019re on now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m an Oracle Certified IT professional with 10+ years of experience in Application Development. I graduated with a major in physics. My interest in computer programming developed during my college days. In addition to Physics, I chose to take an optional computer science module, this is when I was introduced to different programming languages. Following my keen interest in programming, I later pursued a Masters in Computer Applications. As part of the final year of my Masters, I completed an internship with a reputable company in India. Upon graduation, I continued my journey with the same company and have worked with various Oracle technologies since then.What does your working week look like at a glance?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a typical workweek, one of my main tasks involves investigating issues faced by our customers in the applications they use to perform their day-to-day activities and providing regression-free code fixes to resolve those issues. I spend a lot of time and effort researching Oracle documents and materials to learn and understand the details of the areas related to my work.<\/p>\n

I share this knowledge with my team to ensure that best practices and proper coding standards are followed by all the team. I meet with a smaller group of my peers every day to troubleshoot any show-stopper issues and, together, we come up with a strategy to fix them, consequently increasing the efficiency of the team.<\/p>\n

 What recurring tasks does your role typically entail every day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost all jobs have some recurring tasks. If I find a task that looks repetitive, I try to find ways to automate them. For example, a recent project that I worked on involved searching for occurrences of specific strings in a repository comprising 1600+ files to replace them with another string. What made it immensely challenging was that the search-string and the replacement-string were mapped in a pre-generated report. Having to do it manually would result in missing the project deadline. Instead, Gareth Lanigan (one of my peers) and I automated this entire process using a Powershell script. The impact of this was huge and significantly reduced the project timeline.What advice would you give to someone looking to enter your industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the beginning of my career, I was given four rules of thumb by my mentor, which I live by even today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These include:<\/p>\n