eastowners

We are moving to new hosting over the next couple of weeks.  Please bear with us as we pull this off.  In the meantime, here’s something I sent to the geeklist after a twitter post.

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Marc brought up a good question on Twitter, asking if I knew what my
ideal job would be.  In fact, this is something I’ve considered as
there are parts of this job that I absolutely love along with the
generalized disdain.  First some background on exactly what I do,
because I don’t think most of you even really know (hell… sometimes
-I- don’t).

I have assumed the role of IT architect here at Dematic.  You know
that line that says “duties as assigned” in your job description?
Well… -that’s- my job.  I can’t even say I primarily do any one
thing anymore.  I’m a subject matter expert on just about everything
to do with enterprise IT at an engineering and manufacturing company,
up to and including the financial aspects of running a medium-sized
enterprise IT organization.

My highly opinionated, loud mouth gets me tagged for all sorts of
shit, but ya know… I’m not unhappy about that.

This includes project management, admin of all sorts (security, active
directory, sccm/sms, san, network, exchange, vmware, linux/unix, etc),
it system design and implementation, development, resource management
(including capacity planning), support, and education.

Not that I do this stuff alone.  We have a great team here who are
also generally highly opinionated and loud (except for Brandon, who is
just not loud).  :)

As an example of my varied life, my current task list includes
virtualizing a couple of servers that haven’t been yet, writing a new
PC database application (along with automating the data population by
writing a couple of client-side applications), recommending revisions
to the capital forecast for FY09 by restructuring project proposals,
and providing back office support that Brandon would otherwise be
doing if he were not off gallivanting around Mexico celebrating his
nuptials.  :)

I’m learning C# and Linq at the moment.

Of those four or five items, three or four are doing things that I
generally love.  One, the restructuring of the capital forecast, would
be fine if it weren’t for the way in which I have to do it and the
reasons why.  Basically, there’s an expectation that we provide
something for which we are given no resources and expected not to
fail. When we point out the stupidity, we are laughed at.  It’s
maddening.  So we’re left with trying to do things the “least worst”
way instead of doing things right.
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