[TriLUG] Anyone interested in job opportunities?

[Scott Chilcote]

Hi Chuck,

I'm one of the Triangle's many unemployed since my company (NeTraverse) 
closed down its operation in NC and moved all of its operations to Austin.

 From the description you've provided here, it looks like the work 
you're  describing is all support, or administrative.  Is this correct?

I've been making my money doing software development for several years. 
  I've done a fair amount of installation and setup in the process, and 
more administrative work than I'll usually own up to - it can't be 
avoided from time to time, especially with smaller employers.

If you have any development work to do involving C++, Perl, Oracle, 
MySQL, Python, Bash, etc. in this project I'd love to be all over it. 
I'm willing to do administrative work on Solaris or Linux a percentage 
of the time, but I don't want to crowd development off of my resume.

I know the saying about beggars and choosers, but I've spent long enough 
advancing my skills that I hate to give the impression that I've set 
them aside to future employers.

Thanks for any help, advice, pointers, and so forth.  I definitely 
apprecate that you're posing this to TriLUG initially.  From what I've 
heard, potential employers are being buried in resumes with little 
provocation these days!

Take care,

Scott R. Chilcote / 919-380-0585 / scottchilcote at earthlink.net



Chuck Mead wrote:

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> Recently, on the list, I have heard a lot of people talking about how bad 
> the job market is here in the RTP area. I am wondering how many of the LUG 
> membership are currently looking for work or would like to make a change? 
> 
> The reason why I ask is that just yesterday I was handed an opportunity to
> build a team of people to provide 24/7/365 support for a company from
> California who has clients here in NC.  Frankly, at this point, I don't
> know how it's going to work out as I've only started doing due diligence
> but if there are unemployed people in the LUG I'd rather start the process
> here than in the newspaper... So...  anyone who is looking or who knows
> someone who is please feel free to contact me off list. Here is a list of
> what skills I need... (no single person must be able to do all of this...
> this will be a team!):
> 
> Cisco Network Equipment and Software
>    - 7500 Router Platform/IOS 12+
>    - Catalyst 5500/6500 Switch Platforms
>    - PIX Firewall/VPN
>    - LocalDirector Server Load Balancers
> 
> Operating Systems
>    - Sun Solaris 2.7+
>    - Red Hat Linux 7.1
>    - AIX (IBM Unix)
>    - Windows Server (NT/2000)
>    - IOS (Cisco)
> 
> Applications
>   - DNS
>   - SendMail
>   - SSH
>   - Apache HTTP
>   - Netscape Proxy
>   - iPlanet (Netscape) LDAP
>   - Microsoft Active Directory
>   - Microsoft IIS
>   - Microsoft Exchange
> 
> RDBMS
>   - Oracle 8i
>   - SQL Server 7/2000
> 
> Network Protocols/Topology
>   - 10/100/1000 Switched/Shared Ethernet
>   - Token Ring
>   - Frame Relay (many PVC's typical)
>   - T1/T3/DS1/DS3/OC3-OC192
>   - SONET
>   - ATM
>   - BGP4
>   - OSPF
>   - TACACS
>   - NTP