Scott Spendolini's Blog

One month in at Oracle, and I’ve been moving at what feels like warp speed – both literally and figuratively.  My team has been hard at work building the intake survey and that will solicit volunteers for the Phase 3 efficacy trials .  We’re also building all of the backend applications that will be used run analytics to select qualified participants and assign them to a local clinic to receive the actual vaccine.  This project is actually a part of the US Government’s Operation Warp Speed program – a program whose goal is to deliver 300 million doses of a safe and effective vaccine by January 2021.   It should come as no surprise that we’re building 100% of this solution with Oracle’s low code platform, Oracle APEX.  Oracle APEX was the natural choice here, given the rapidly changing requirements, the need for a 100% responsive and custom UI, and the ability to deliver something substantial in just a couple of weeks.  The entire infrastructure – and it’s a...

Exactly twenty-four years ago to the date, I started my first job out of college with Oracle in Bethesda, MD.  I still vividly remember that day – right down to the part where I descended into the tunnel that passes under Wisconsin Ave. thinking it was the Metro, only to end up on the other side of the street looking totally lost.  For the first few years there, I moved from one sales consulting role to another, supporting clients across state, local, federal, higher education and even communications verticals with their eBusiness Suite technical needs.  Most of my days were spent preparing and delivering demonstrations to all kinds of customers.  I cut my teeth on both Oracle and UNIX in those days, as we had to build our own portable demo systems that ran on “portable” SPARC-clones called Tadpoles.  Remember those?  Didn’t think so. It wasn’t until around 2002 that I was introduced to APEX and tasked to build a couple of demos with a pre-release version o...