Abacus Upgrade, DFO (Jan – July 2008)
From January to July 2008, Peter was part of the implementation team for the Abacus upgrade at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Ottawa. Abacus is a customized implementation of the Oracle eBusiness Suite and was upgraded from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10. Peter’s role was to assist the DBAs in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues that arose during the upgrade, and in some cases providing enhancements to existing features. He also provided techniical support for a major data cleanup effort. Peter says : “Upgrades are always interesting because you never quite know what new issues you are going to run up against. On this project I got to utilize a wide variety of technical skills including some Linux shell scripting which I had never really worked with much before.”