Shin Shin Career Center

Dear Alice & Ben:

I would like to express my great appreciation for the Oracle Finanical 11i program provided in Shin Shin and instructor Mr. Ben. I am now back to my new career as Oracle Financial Functional Specialist.

Thank you all for your instruction and advice.

Jing

I would like to show my appreciation for your training and education to support me and

obtain a job. Employers did ask me lots questions for Oracle 11i Apps DBA, 9i and data

warehouse. My new job is Oracle DBA for data warehouse. I had been off works for about

two years. My last job was customer support but dealt with lots Oracle DBA issues and

decided to be Oracle DBA as the next job. My plan and goal were facing lots obstacles

because people did ask me what I had been doing these days and some employer did

not even to bother to check on me. The situation started improving in Oct year 2003 and

I started to get more interviews. Finally, I got a DBA job and all the efforts from your center

got paid off. As a student, I would like to say "Thank you very much, Shin Shin". I will be

I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for helping me getting the job. I would be honored if you would allow me to take you out for dinner as a way of saying "Thank you" and also to celebrate

Hi Alice, I'd like to thank for what I learned from this class about the Oracle Financial Application. Especially, I get the job due to an interview question I just learned the Oracle SQL from Ben Chen's class. Of course, I like to thank to Alice too, it was you persuaded me to the class and learned a lot from your school. With the high tech background in the past 12 years, I learned that I still can have more skills in addition. I know very little in the business although my father was a business man all his life. The only thing I knew before attend this class was Letter of Credit, import, export, FOB, and so on. I thought business was easy and just calculation of the credit and debit. Now I know after this class, all the AR, AP, GL are not easy as I thought before. It actually need so much efforts to keep all the daily records – book keeping, financial report, balance report, income statement, invoice, journal and so on so forth. I also learn the all the setups for the Oracle Financial Application was not that hard but also was not easy without my instructor’s detailed and enthusiastic teaching. His astonished memory always surprises us. He taught us in Mandarin so we can learn as much as we can as a no accounting background IT person. We now know that all the other financial can be transferred into Oracle Financial Applications just by using the Sql loader and plan text files. Of course, we need to do a lot of home work in order to transfer the legacy into Oracle and also we need to tell customers exactly what we want from them and give them the format we can use. We also learned that the Oracle Financial Application can let the users to add fields they want for some pages up from 5 to 15 fields. The fact is Oracle has designed them in advance from previous customers suggestion or comments. It is really very thoughtful. I really thanks for Mr. Chen’s effort and talent, especially he wants to teach us and willing to give every one of us a very warm feeling so we can have more confidence in this class. Lastly, I will thank for each and everyone in the class to help me, especially, Katherlen, Connie, and Godwin for their helps. Best wishes, Ken Yang___________________________________________________________________

Hi Alice:

First of all, thank you so much for providing an environment for us to switch our career path to become an IT professional in a short period of time. After few months of training at Shin Shin, I am so please to tell you that I found a job as an
Oracle DBA. In addition, you also create a DBA salon, once a month all the DBAs from different companies can get together to share their experience at work, so we can learn from each other. The teachers at Shin Shin are another
resource for our DBA salon, Shin Shin create a DBA egroup, if we have problems at work, we can post the question to egroup, our group member or teachers will provide solutions to us. I really appreciate for your help. I hope the best
for you and your school.

Best Regards,

Ling

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Dear Alice,

It was a great pleasure to let you know that I have accepted a generous offer from a company as a DBA and I
will start my new job next week. Thank you so much for the very useful training and job search support I
received from Shin-shin.
It has been proved to be a wise decision to begin my new professional career by selecting Shin-shin's DBA
program, which provides participants with a comprehensive package to cover the up-to-date Oracle
database system. The clear, easily understandable lectures by Shin-shin's talented faculty with strong
technical expertise, plus intensive hands-on experiments, have enabled me to pass all Oracle
certification tests quickly and well prepared me to go through a number of tough job interviews.
I am very happy to share my joy with you and all people working at Shin-shin, as well as my fellow
students. Thank you again and keep in touch.

Best regards,

Jessie

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Dear Ben:

I would like to thank you for the Oracle lessons you gave us. You are the best teacher I ever have. You are very energetic and eager to give whatever you can to your students. The way you interface with your students is the most effective way to know about us. The whole class really appreciated your teaching.

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Dear Alice,

Today is my first day as a bioinformatics scientist in DoubleTwist, Inc.. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Shin-Shin and Dr. Jeffrey Zhang. What I learned in Shin-Shin definitely helped me greatly to have a successful interview, which led me to get the job. The experience with Shin-Shin strengths my computer background and promote my career transition from a bench biologist scientist to a bioinformatics scientist, which is my dream for years.

Dr. Zhang is an excellent teacher, because of not only his knowledge in Oracle database, but his extensive experience as well. His teaching is interesting, practical and easy to understand. I would like to extend my appreciation to him.

Best Regards.
Kai Wu, Ph.D.
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Dear Alice

I just want to tell you a good news that I got my DBA job couple of month ago. I am really appreciate Shin Shin
Training program which helped me to successfully changed my career from finance to Oracle DBA after I finished 210 hours of DBA class.

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Hi Alice

You may not remember me, I graduated from Shin Shin's DBA class in mid-May. I am very pleased to inform you that I got a job recently in a biotech company at Sunnyvale. My job title is DBA, but I am doing a lot of programming right now. However, all my work is closely related to database. I use SQL everyday, I am in charge of the database backup, I even did some performance tuning. I am learning new things every day, but I feel that the knowledge I gained at Shin Shin is very valuable. Thanks!

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Hi My name is Kavin Cheng and I am taking DBA training in Shin Shin Training Center since February 10. Few days ago, fortunately, I got an offer from a new e-commerce company. I believe there are a lot of people who want to change their field or find a job. Therefore, here in my experience that I want to share with everybody.
Don't give up your original field. The specific background can help you find a DBA job. in my case, my original major is construction management. After I started to study DBA course, I tried to look for any e-commerce job relate to construction. I was very luck that there are some new construction B to B e-commerce company need the people who know both construction and database. After I had some interview, I got the offer smoothly. I believe that knowledge is powerful. The only thing that make the people more valuable is keeping studying. Good luck, my friends.

Kevin Cheng

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Hello. This is to tell you guys that I am now working as a dba, in fact almost 4 weeks already. I did not tell you all because I felt that it would be a shame if I could not do the job. When I was in the over 1 hour face to face interview with a senior Oracle consultant, I told them that "I would leave myself rather being fired if I could not do the job". The consultant grilled me with almost all imaginable technical questions plus standby database, parallel server, replication and snapshot. At that time, I thought I might have lost the chance because their IT manager asked me what is under the "/etc" directory - I said I could not remember... too many things there ... like cron and packages etc. When their senior dba saw me 2 days later, he just asked me about whether developers allowed on production box, audit, and how to find answers (calling Oracle tech support, Metalink or others) and it was just done within 5 minutes. Later sr dba told me that they decided top hire me because I could explain paralle server theories but honestly told them that I never worked on parallel server, while all other candidates became "next" when they said they did not know about raw partition but knew parallel server. In past 4 weeks, I had gone through very intense challenges. If my notes were seen by others, they would probably laugh at me. But today, I would say that I almost know how to use all unix commands applicable to Oracle. I even adapted some Korn shell scripts to make unix check alert logs every few hours itself, covering multiple databases on both development and production boxes, via both cron and at, not to mention implementating automatic disk free checks, backup and export auto grep for successful info, and automatic tuning (again going into multiple databases using awk and sed to extract Oracle SID with and without host number extension), not to mention those scripts for cleaning logs and trace files. At this time, we are still using master tuning and backup/export scripts written by Oracle consultants. If you guys need any script, I will provide some, except for those master scripts with copyright inscribed inside. You must remember I bought the Linux software at the beginning of the class. I gave it to several classmates for installation, but I myself did not get it done on the 500 Mhz and 16 MB video card machine. I in fact installed the he Linux thing just days before this particular interview, and it helped me in getting the comprehensive knowledge about unix commands and shell commands. I took unix programming at Mission College in 1995, but I did not bother to go to lab at that time. I did some statistics on unix back in 1990 and some language data bank thing in 1983-84, but other than that my unix knowledge is very limited. I read one book which said Oracle and unix are brothers and it's for sure true. We use 3 refrigerator-sized IBM RS6000 as database servers and altogether 20 harddisks on each, with root mirrored by 4 disks and all the rest double mirrored. Here, we have 6-7 unix adm, and 4 of them do odd shifts to keep 24 by 7 operations running. That's where I am lucky since those unix guys are helping me with the hardware things. In other companies, a dba must be a unix adm first, I believe. This week is a test for me because sr dba is on leave and I am sitting in. I handled a request from VP asking for a dozen of columns from 7-8 tables totaling almost 1200 rows, and I have to commission the sql dba in helping me fulfill the task. This sql dba is in US for maybe half a year, on a H-1 visa, with an Oracle 7 Handbook printed in India. He had helped me considerably in tackling various packages, procedures and functions, and especially data loading which involve inserting rows back and forth between development and production tables involving tens of thousands of rows. Tuesday night, one of the development databases was down and I was called at 10:55 pm and had to work through to 3 am to fix it, and it turned out to be two corrupted files and I had to wake up sr dba (who gave me the number for emergency need) to get permission to "offline drop" due to noarchivelog, and around 1 pm the same night another development database experienced SYS max user roles exceeding 20 because the oracle consultants did some manipulation earlier in the day as well as imported FULL=Y into the former database without making a log switch. Wed, I had to drop tablespace and recreate it with the files, and then imported the compressed dump file. I had been sent to parallel server training and would be given more training since company would make me into a backup for the sr dba. IT manager told me he would send me to training again very soon. At this time, I would still be cautious, and I would report to you guys in

maybe 2-3 months. Why? Our formal production won't be launched till 2-3 months later. Those developers, maybe over 100, are still writing and testing codes, and migration has been delayed many times. Our production box is quite safe, but the development box is very much abused by them. My daily routines are to take care of the development box. Yesterday night, developers wanted meto backup a para-production database and wanted to use it today, and they created 10 users using SYS or SYSTEM by themselves, but I was almost reprimanded for this when I was asked whether I had assisted them. I had to change the passwords since those guys knew how to guess the password. After 2- 3 months, I would be fully rain-and-storm weathered, and will update you if any progress. One more thing, the remote dialing thing. My company uses Secure ID, and I could just use ISP to get connected to company databases via telnet, just like sitting next to servers. Oracle client needs to have tnsnames modified for "host" and "SID" and works exactly the same. Company provides cell phone and DSL at home. I could login and connect internal even though all our databases are "remote authentication" is set to "none'. I could work from home occasionally. Besides, my company don't have a desk for anyone at all. Talk to you another time. Good luck to all you.

James

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Hi Ben:

I have been working as an Oracle OFA (Oracle Application support Analyst) for almost a month. I really appreciate what I have learned in Shinshin, especially all the classes you instructed. I value your knowledge and experience in Oracle application and development. The foundation I have been built up in Shinshin such as fundamental knowledge in key modules AP, AR, GL, System administration really helps me a lot in my new job. I started to create user security and setup new responsibility exactly following the instructions Ben has provided us...I am really happy to have the opportunity to take Ben's class and also get to know a lot of friends, some of them are already in Oracle development and DBA fields. I am still keeping good relationships with them at this moment. I am excited to get involved in projects such as 11i upgrade planning, current user support, vertex setup, integration with CRM (siebel). All this is contributing to what I have learned in Ben's class. Definitely, there are a lot for me to pick up and I am facing new challenge everyday. I treasure everything I learned in Shinshin to give me the "stepping stone" in my new career.

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Hi Ben

I am sorry that I can not continue to lesson to your class, because I got a good offer titled sr. applications analyst for oracle 11i ,started 23th,July in New Jersey. I really want to listen your class, but I can't. At the new company ,we are Oracle 11i end user, we use oracle 11i from manufactory to financial, and we have US site, Japan site and Europe site,so we have many issues to resolve. Now we have a big consult company help us to setup the application, we are in status of detail design with consult company. My responsibility are help collect receipt data (Japan site and US site)and take over customize some function and reports after consult company done ,but I don't know financial very well. I want to ask you some questions. could you give me your phone number ? or could you give me a call. Thanks!

Shelley

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Hi Ben,

I'm writing to say thanks again. Even now I'm not using Oracle system, but all concepts no matter in technical field or in accounting field you taught us in sshin keep benefiting me so much. The ERP system I'm using now is fitted into mid-size company. Since I took class in sshin, I'm very clear how different AP, AR, GL, PO,Shipping, or Inventory modules are linked together. Of course, it’s not so powerful as Oracle Apps, however, I still get a chance to be family with ERP system. Actually, as my understanding, the concepts behind all ERP systems are same; the important thing is how to put technical and functional knowledge into users functional acceptance.

Happy Easter!

Judy

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How is everyone? I want to share with you my good news that after 2 month of job hunting, I got a job as an Oracle Consultant in Hong Kong. My company is called PNM Solutions, it's one of the leading local consultancy company in Hong Kong. Today is my first day at work, I go to client's site directly to meet other team members. My first task is to customize an AR autopay report. Our client is implementing 11i, mainly financial modules. The whole environment is the same as what we learned in class.... I feel very excited about this new job ^_^
anyone who got a new job please also share your good news with us ,ok~~