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Sometimes hobbies do turn into professions. I've now been running my own Information Technology (IT) consulting business since 1992, how time does fly! So what have I been up to in all this time? Just about everything.
- 2006 - Well my 11 week contract - that started in 2005 - is long since expired - and renewed more times than I can remember anymore. I'm told my position as a Senior Consultant at a very large firm, will remain until I choose to leave. My current assignment at this time in the biotech sector. Doing much of what I have done before. Product Lifecycle Management - looking at my own history, I'm over 10 years at this now. And the firm greatly enjoys my experiencs of "been there done that - DONT do it".
- 2005 - My 6 month contract, with option to renew - finally expired after 4 years. And I THOUGHT I was going to take some time off... However - 48 hours after leaving - I was at my new company and new position. And now I start the most challenging contract ever. The conversation went like this: "We need you - get over here!" "Ok, what do you want me to do?" "Doesn't matter what I say, we know you'll know what to do when you get here, expect an offer by next week" 1 Week later... "Hi we hear we get to work with you - how much do you want?" I left the old job on Friday, started the new one on Monday.
- 2002-2004 - Yep you caught me, I haven't written this up yet - I will soon
- 2001 - Wow! What a year, first I got married, then we had a beautiful daughter, and finally I got told the startup was going under. Gee... The startup was quite challenging, the environment brings 1 person show to a whole new level. I ended up deploying windows servers, in remote co-located hosting facilties, designing network backup methods over low bandwidth, BSD, linux, and so much more. I enjoyed the challenge but didn't enjoy not getting paid. So with a 5+ week hiring process. I am once again at a large company on contract. Hired to stabilize and migrate all business units to unified Web Application.
- 2000 - So not much ended up happening at that medium sized company. So I'm off to try the startup game now. So I'm at a Application Service Provider aka hosting service and more! So far, this is your standard startup nightmare, everyone is a developer, and no one know hows to do deployment or support.
- 1999 - Seems as company growth goes, not much has happened here. But with new management consultants now onboard, I have a new project. Now I'm working with a marketing consultant to create a totally different way of doing sales force automation. Plus little things like make it work with the existing financial and accounting packages - so the management can do proper forecasting.
- 1998 - Well I've been pulling out all the stops at this medium sized company that - thinks - its going to grow big. I'm the one man show at this place. Desktop machine upgrades, new servers, re-designed the network (routers, firewalls, vpns, etc) for multiple satellite offices... Been a busy year.
- 1997 - Contract ended at the large company, finished the ERP ontime, developed repair procedures, network monitoring, eventualy ended up managing the outsourcing contract to keep those guys on their toes technically speaking. But it was time to leave. I'm sorry to leave behind a great team of people. But... On we go. I'm now at a medium sized semi-conductor equipment manufacturer. Hired to prepare company for 50% growth, from a computing infrastructure perspective.
- 1996 - Certified now on Microsoft, more Novell, and Platinum Software ERP. Time to manage my first ERP rollout - the finance and accounting departments and I are going to become very friendly. At least I was able to hire some additional resources to cover my previous hardware based duties.
- 1995 - Wow, it's been a year already! Well I certainly have had my fill of large company migrations, with 1/2 of the departments at the campus under my responsibilty for timing and coordintation of activities; data migration, hardware installs, new applications, training sessions... And no I didn't get promoted - I just had all the "other" things added to my already highly technical plate. I've had no down time, and no vacation... But there is plenty to learn and the team I work with is very seasoned and great to work with!
- 1994 - Ok enough slave labor, after 2 years, I figured out I've either "built" or "fixed" over 14,000 PCs. More importantly I just landed my first major full time contract, I'll be working at a very large company - the one that invented the PC, the mouse, windows, etc. Hired as key participant to create a multi-tiered support structure for PC (x86) based systems, and to migrate existing network services to industry standard TCP/IP networks.
- 1993 - Certified now on Apple, Novell, and plenty more. Time for larger consulting contracts!
- 1992 - Working full time at a "slave labor" pc computer place; and starting my consulting business part time, so far I've been getting plenty of work doing hardware (initial setup, ongoing support, and upgrades) at several small and a few medium sized businesses.
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