• Work Your Plan: Jesse Durrant, Senior Site Reliability Developer, Army National Guard Officer

  • May 1 2025
  • Duración: 40 m
  • Podcast

Work Your Plan: Jesse Durrant, Senior Site Reliability Developer, Army National Guard Officer

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  • We caught up with Jesse in between his Army National Guard duties to dive into a powerful conversation about ambition, resilience, and the power of community. Jesse shares how his drive, vision, and strong network helped him navigate the unique challenges of balancing military service with civilian life—challenges many of us rarely consider in our everyday career paths. We explore the behind-the-scenes planning, reflection, and foresight it takes to align personal goals with professional responsibilities—both in and out of uniform. Jesse brings to light how he created opportunities through preparation, perseverance, and a few tough life lessons. His upbeat, can-do mindset shines throughout, revealing why he continues to earn a seat at the table wherever he goes. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to harness their skills, rise to the occasion, and grow with gratitude for the people who help make it all possible. It’s an inspiring, energizing conversation you won’t want to miss! https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessedurrant/ https://www.oracle.com/veterans/ https://www.oracle.com/careers/ https://www.travismanion.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00;00;00;00 - 00;00;35;10 Unknown You're listening to the Oracle Maven podcast, where we bring people together from the veteran affiliated community to highlight employees, partners, organizations and those who are continuing the mission to serve. Welcome to the Maven podcast. I'm your host, Chris Mansour, and in this episode I'm joined by Jesse Durant, Oracle senior site reliability developer and Army National Guard officer. We caught up with Jesse in between his Army National Guard duties to dive into a powerful conversation about ambition, resilience, and the power of community. 00;00;35;11 - 00;00;59;08 Unknown Jesse shares how his drive, vision and strong network helped him navigate the unique challenges of balancing military service with civilian life challenges many of us rarely consider in our everyday career paths. We explore the behind the scenes planning, reflection, and foresight. It takes to align personal goals with professional responsibilities both in and out of uniform. Jesse brings to light how we created opportunities through preparation, perseverance, and a few tough life lessons. 00;00;59;08 - 00;01;15;19 Unknown His upbeat, can-do mindset shines throughout, revealing why he continues to earn a seat at the table wherever he goes. This episode is a must listen for anyone looking to harness their skills, rise to the occasion, and grow with gratitude for the people who helped make it all possible. It's an inspiring and energizing conversation you won't want to miss. 00;01;15;21 - 00;01;34;16 Unknown We have all we need to become the person we want to be. So let's remember how to connect with others with sincerity and genuine intent. As we continue the mission to serve. Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed this episode, and please remember to check in on your buddies and family, Jesse's contact details in the podcast description, and you can always find me on LinkedIn. 00;01;34;18 - 00;01;52;28 Unknown Hey, Jesse, what's going on? Not too bad. Chris is here. Another day in the office, you know. Excited to be here. Thank you for having me on the podcast. Pretty impromptu, but I'm excited to be here. Sometimes it is last minute, but you know how it is when somebody has a good idea or what they believe to be a good idea. 00;01;53;04 - 00;02;11;12 Unknown We act on that. The worst that could happen is somebody says no and you did not. So thanks for accommodating being flexible. Typically where we start just a little bit about you and let's go with that. All right. So let's start out with where I'm at now. Currently I've been with Oracle for three years. Just hit my three year anniversary this month, so I'm excited. 00;02;11;12 - 00;02;32;12 Unknown I've been part of the team for three years now. I'm a senior site reliability engineer and on tour ops. My manager and Scott Paper, as you know him pretty well. Fantastic manager currently, as well as working for Oracle, I serve in the Army National Guard and I'm a tenant there for the engineer. So vehicle engineer is my main job there. 00;02;32;15 - 00;02;51;07 Unknown Anything that needs to be built from ground up. The guy Rhodes, demolition. I'm the guy. And then I'm an avid runner. Like to run? I'm part of several run club there in the Seattle area. So if you want to get out and network and meet other tech people, Come running. Got it. That's that's pretty good. 00;02;51;07 - 00;03;16;28 Unknown So. So you're you're from are you originally from Seattle? So I'm originally from Eastern Washington. I grew up in Tri-Cities, Washington, mostly known for the Hanford nuclear site, back during the Manhattan Project. So Pasco is a specific city. It's, I'd tell a small town, population wise, it's growing. It's ...
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