Heading to the mothership!

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Hello World! I'm extremely happy and excited to announce that, this week, I've just started a new Product Manager role at Oracle! I'm joining Roy Swonger, Mike Dietrich, Daniel Hansen and Bill Beauregard on the Oracle Database Migrations, Upgrades, Patching and Utilities PM team!

After working more than 15 years on companies like IBM, Capgemini, Amdocs and Accenture Enkitec, I've finally decided to drop my consultant hat and work at Oracle: the company who builds the technology that totally directed my career!

(The Mothership)

This decision did not come easy, as I have grown to love the Enkitec family.  It is a wonderful team, full of experts with an incredible synergy! I made real life friends there. Needless to say they are one of the top consultant companies out there.

However, the challenges and the nature of work that I will come to do at Oracle spoke louder. It was time to move on, take a risk and get to know this new world working at the mothership, improving the software that I always loved! Working with oracle databases, especially on this subject, is not just a work.. I do it for passion/hobby/spare time..

Last week, I received my welcome kit and my notebook. That was the first time ever I received my laptop in my home even before officially starting at the company. I was amazed by their organization! They really did a great performance tuning job on the onboarding process. This kit also included a VR BOX phone support where I placed my phone, opened a YouTube link and did a virtual tour through the Oracle São Paulo office. Great approach, especially on this covid-19 era..

That's it! It will be an overwhelming experience.. as a product manager, what you may expect from me is to be an even more "evangelist" of the database product, improving and bringing new features according to the market, customer and mainly your needs!

Stay tuned!

FAQ

1. Are you losing your ACE Director title?

Unfortunately, yes.

Per ACE Program policy, "Oracle employees are not eligible for the Oracle ACE Program.". I'm now an ACE Alumini.

2. Why this area? Aren't you a security guy?

I'm also a security enthusiast. I like to use tracing and tooling to investigate oracle internal code behavior and check for issues that oracle may need to improve/correct. The team I'm joining is directly responsible for Database Patching and I hope to make good improvements on it!

3. Will you still blog about internals/security things, now that you are on the working for them?

Definitely yes. Being an ACED or an Oracle employee don't change much my responsibility for the sort of things that I do post. Security and internals will always be in my blood. I will keep doing my investigations, as before, and writing my blog posts, always showing what an attacker can do and how can we protect/avoid those vectors! {insert evil laughter}

4. Are you still going to the events now that you will not be sponsored by the ACE Program?

Yes! Probably even more than before. The ACE Program was a consequence of my actions, not the cause. Not having to pursue ACE points doesn't mean I will stop blogging/travelling/helping out the community.

5. What about other Cloud or Database Vendors? And the tools you've created in github? Will you still work and blog about them?

On my spare time, I will keep doing my researches! I've always done this for fun, not for work.. so I don't expect this to change neither.

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