career
This section is all about what I do for a crust - and the fun I have while doing
it! At the beginning of 2002, I started
nimblestone, a systems integration
consultancy. Between around the middle of 1999 and my departure to start
nimblestone, I was working for Cambridge Technology Partners, a global systems
integrator, acquired by Novell in mid-2001. Although attached to the Irish
office in Dublin I was lucky enough to work in other parts of Europe including
Zurich, Amsterdam and Glasgow. My job at
Cambridge also allowed me to visit Boston in the U.S., London, Stuttgart, Geneva
and Vienna.
Sadly, the Novell buyout meant a shift in the solutions offerings to focus
exclusively on Novell software products. For an independent solutions architect
or consultant such a shift to one vendor's products (regardless of how good they
are) is not helpful for the career, so I decided to strike out on my own.
Before moving to Dublin and joining Cambridge I worked in Australia for a
software house developing and bespoking GSTN based Video Conferencing packages
for Windows. We spent around 15 months developing a version of our product for
Mitsubishi Electric, who wanted to create a remote telemedical conferencing
product that would allow pregnant women in rural Japan to see their doctors
without having to make the (sometimes) long journey to the hospitals where the
doctors were based.
Before that, I worked with IBM's Australian Programming Centre (now part of IBM
Global Services), in their Multimedia and Publishing department, doing tech
support, LAN admin and helping create multimedia kiosks, CD-ROMs and other
graphical products.