Who works in Enterprise IT

IT contractor (have been for 12 years now) currently at NHS, Barclays prior to that.

Mainly Cisco, EVA, ESX and Citrix at the moment.
 
Gilly - never regretted the day I dropped the tools after 8 or so years of engineering management. I went from engineering into business development then into product management. I'd suggest looking at doing a bit of front line sales if you've not done that yet - it'll broaden your appreciation when managing.

I started with a 4 year software engineering degree, moved into Logica in 1997.. spent time in different products of many sizes and markets (such as architect on a €42M project), settled in a product area for mobile operators then about 2-3 years ago I moved to International Business Development in a technical function and then was asked to help in product management. LogicaCMG sold the division and it's now it's own privately held company called Acision.

I'm a Technical Product Manager for two products which is an odd title as it's more like being a CTO. The closest I get to the hardware is the financial analysis and strategy.

We use HP DLs and the c7000 based BL series.. usually by the bucket load..
 
ringo747 said:
I'm still there! Contact details in trust if you want more info!
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I may well take you up on that offer
Once my finals are over! Good to hear you are there still it is encouraging that people choose to stay :-) cheers buddy

- posted from my iPhone (hence odd grammar)
 
Only just noticed this area!

Basically work for a Building Society as a Senior Systems Engineer.

All HP kit (DLs/MLs/BLs)
Juniper Firewalls
Cisco Firewalls and Networking
Microsoft O/S's / Applications / etc.
Windows 2003/2000/XP/Vista - looking at 2008
Exchange
MIMESweeper
VMWare ESX Server / VMotion / etc.

Lots of bespoke apps.

Currently an MCSE+S 2003 and looking to move that forward. Looking at Cisco and VCP stuff soon.



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Pre-sales consultant for a large, well known, vendor. Focused on a lot of areas including storage, virtualisation, archive, backup and lately dedup!

I work with a wide range of large account in legal, finance, retail and government.

Tons of training, product focused, ITIL and soon a VMWare Certified Professional :)
 
Support monkey, recently moved up to Support Manager. I work for a small consulting firm that looks after a diverse subset from both private and public sector, all SMB.
Daily tasks would include everything under the sun (Windows/Exchange, Novell/GroupWise, Switching/Routing/software support/etc) but my days of enjoying playing with toys are mostly gone as my role now mostly consists of project management which I'm finding... interesting :)

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's consciously made the choice to go from specialist support (Cisco et al) to management; Gilly?
 
C++ Developer

We're not an enterprise though, just a small R&D company.... www.irisradar.com

My main job is C++ dev on our main product in Borland/Codegear RAD Studio, as well as that i tend to look after our network - only a small setup (5 servers for mail, dns, dhcp, subversion, trac, vpn, ldap) and the occasional custom build box for a client (we tend to use off the shelf stuff where possible to keep costs down)

I'm adding in a VOIP box soon with FXO/FXS onto our local landlines and via web gateway.
 
Contractor, working for a big outsourcer at the mo' on one of their corporate accounts.

Looking after a right mixed bag from NT 3.51 and Netware 4 up to Windows 2003 / AD. Just banging the VMware drum as well right now.

Also getting the servers monitored, they won't pay for anything so i've got a project underway to get Nagios monitoring the servers, and hopefully get it firing alerts as tickets into remedy. Found a long forgotten Netware box thats been up for 3 years :)

I'm MCSE, VCP, CNE and 100m swimming.
 
I'm a Solution Designer for a major UK retailer. That's mainly about recommending suitable technology for a given business requirement. I mainly specialise in web infrastructure for ecommerce and have recently completed a technology refresh for the main eco site which is now sized to be able to handle up to £1bn per year. It currently handles just under half that and takes over a million order lines on a busy day.

I mostly do Unix stuff having been qualified as a Unix engineer since 1989. I've been doing multi-user OS since around 1984.

On the software side, it's mostly J2EE but I also recently put in a Sun LDAP solution alongside Sun Messaging.

I have a pretty good understanding of WAN and LAN with some good fundamentals of storage.

I try to avoid Windows "systems" where possible but in principle I am a big fan of Citrix and Nfuse.
 
Been in IT since uni, currently working as an MS SMS specialist for a local government agency, but my role is also a general look after everything they have one so get to quite a lot of stuff. One day I'm doing some ITIL exam, the next I'm on an exchange course, they seem to have a bit of cash to throw about so I'm getting as much out of them as I can :)

The IT dept is pretty young as it used to be outsourced so I also help out the desktop guys where there are skills/staff shortages with some of the bigger things that they don't have the experience with.

Nick Xero said:
I work for Dell in Pre-Sales for Servers & Storage, due to move over to the newly acquired EqualLogic Pre-Sales division at the end of this month :D

Anyone want some iSCSI??
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Think we just spent a little bit on some Equallogic NAS kit as well as some Riverbed WAN accel stuff too.
 
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I'm back in the HP partner / MS sector as a windows engineer with HP APS stuff to do.

Working back towards ASE / MCSE . Wish I'd joined HP/EDS when I had the chance
 
Lead technical PM for the server team on the EMEA side of one of the founding internet companies, you may have heard of our recent near miss with monkeyboy.
 
I was working for Scottish and Southern Energy, but just didn't find the role diverse enough. Everything was v siloed.

I want to get my skills up and then go from there. I missed an interview at Atos Origin due to being ill, so that was v annoying
 
Wow, interesting to see some others in HP. I'm part of C&I (recent graduate) primarily Linux focused.

Might see you around Goatyman. Maybe I even saw you at an assessment centre :S
 
I work for a rather large Norwich based insurer as one of the Systems designers focusing on E-commerce solutions but covering everything really!

Prior to that i spent 6 years as a support specialist on the very same systems that i now design.
 
was gutted about it, money was good and the role sounded v good too. Going to build my skills up again before looking at the bigger ms partner / HP partner orgs
 
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