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I'm a consultant for a very large tech services company whose name I can't mention for obvious reasons. That's my main contract but I also have several smaller customers that are companies I've picked up over the years and still work with on occasion. The company I'm with currently knows about my outside customers and we negotiated those terms up front so I'm not sneaking around or violating my non-compete agreement, which is specific to the customer contract I'm on now which tells you it's not IBM, because they're pretty Death Star about their non-competes which are even geographical (which I absolutely won't sign). In fact, I passed up a job with IBM consulting to take this contract for exactly that reason. The irony being that for the last two years I've worked a project with IBM who also does work for this customer. I would've left before now but my customer manager is THE best human being I've ever worked for in 20 years. And she also threatened to shoot me if I tried leaving.

My outside customers include offices as small as five people (a real estate office) all the way up to a couple medium-size manufacturing businesses in the mid-west that have been my customers since the '95-'96 time frame. Since our prime customer is huge I wear a lot of different hats for them: Project manager, programmer, analyst, dba, and occasional network admin. At one time or another I've done all those jobs full time. The last project before starting this contract was a mid-cap resort/vacation company that I designed and built their online reservation system (with a five person team) in just three months from ground zero to roll out of the phase I site. Was there for a year and half until the company was bought out by one of the big hotel players.

Not going to list all the current projects but the prime customer is the one running the LAMP test projects, OpenOffice and Linux thin client trials. That's not for their whole enterprise, just for some divisions. In fairness we're also working on a .NET infrastructure for wrapping some of their legacy systems and web services. Dell is the hardware vendor on that part and is also supplying sub-contract development support.

At home I run primarily Linux with one Win2K partition left for video editing and music mixing. Which is what I'm doing during my off hour of the day along with managing four web sites for personal stuff (no, not porn). My wife is an MBA and former model and no, I'm not making that up, either.

Posted by: Chad_z   Posted on: 01/19/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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