re: Do you work in I.T.? If yes, what capacity?

Programmer for the first 5 years then got into application management for about 7 years. Then back to programming for the last 10.

Almost done, but I've been a dev manager for 25 years. Currently have 4 teams, two onshore, two off.

While still at LSU:
- Sold computers at Tandy Biz Products on Florida Blvd, got into Unix there
- Did tech support and engineering at 5th Generation Systems, the Fastback people
- Did some COBOL/Assembler dev at Farm Bureau on Airline
After graduation:
- Mainframe CICS COBOL, DB2 dev
- Network engineer, Novell, Banyan, Wellfleet/Cisco WAN’s
- Unix System 5, C, multi-threaded multi-process communications systems dev for Bell Labs
- Powerbuilder, C, C++...UI level, system controls, OS-level utility dev for both Unix and MS-DOS/NT
- Became a manager in 1998, led HP UX dev teams building various credit processing engines
- Web dev in the early days using LAMP
- Got PMP about 2002, began leading large projects while managing development
- Been leading dev teams and projects for past 20 years, lately owning dev and infrastructure for RPA / automation, using Blue Prism and UIpath platforms
- Use any tools / methods like Jira, agile, and Extreme Programming back in the day
- Taught C, C++, Java, OO dev, you name it at the university level as an adjunct

Been a good ride, but ready to just ride around on my tractor rather than sitting in on meetings

10+ years as a software engineer at a FAANG, cloud computing. Self taught in JavaScript, Python (and all the libraries), SQL, and JSON with a EE degree from LSU. Some projects or tasks have me writing code tests and functionality all day long or more when deadlines loom with a new cloud product offering. Or projects based on performance improvements of an existing cloud based product.

Moreover, projects could include what I’m doing currently, I’m troubleshooting production problems in a software product that’s being migrated to the cloud. That typically means all day reading code, running the debugger to trace the code, and occasionally creating test cases to help with procuring a diagnosis. The end result is often no code at all because it’s an environment problem, basically you need to set tuneable parameters x to y, or change one or two lines of code to fix a bug that is causing compiler issues. The work is fun to me, solving complex problems with my team of engineers, you don’t work hard from a physical standpoint, obviously. A Lenovo X-1 Carbon and three computer screens is all I need to work anywhere remotely with an internet connection.

Email me your resume

admin@crescenttek.net

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Network engineering, now in sales engineering because the money is waaaay better

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I’m curious if the people that are sales engineers are for a manufacturer or reseller.

Isp

Done a little of everything as others have stated. Fell into it out of college. Started out in infrastructure (wire and cabling).

Just left one software company where I was a Customer Success advocate. I really loved that job and my customers, but the company I worked for sucked. Once they got acquired by Thoma Bravo, everything went to shite.

I'm at another software company now in a similar business. Account managing until I can get back to Customer Success. I enjoy being the bridge between the customer and the tech resources. Need to get back on the road and out in front of people again.

I'm in IT staffing and have a metric shite ton of .NET roles if you're interested.

I'm a network admin in the public sector.

Got my AAS in Networking, my BS in IT business management. Working towards my MBA. End goal is to become director within my org or, if politics takes over, go back into the private sector and go C suite.