Bill Quick and N.Z. Bear have posted “I’m available for work” to their blogs, and I’ve been looking (without result so far), so why not add myself to the list, I thought…
I’m looking for a short-to medium term consulting project (preferred) or, God Forbid, a job (actually have been thinking about hanging up the consulting hat, since I’m tired of making recommendations that get ignored). Here’s what I do in a nutshell:
1) Evaluate and manage troubled (and other) projects. My recent experience is in technology projects, including large Ariba/Tradex and Oracle projects. Spent 60% of the budget and have nothing to show for it? I’ll typically evaluate what you’ve got and suggest the least painful path out. And help hang the guilty, where appropriate. I’ve also got significant experience in large real estate workouts both of financially troubled existing projects and politically troubled development projects.
2) Devise technology strategy to fit business objectives, and design systems (down to the architecture level) to implement this strategy.
I have a bunch of happy ex-clients (or at least ex-clients who wished they had done what I suggested), and up until this round haven’t spent much time looking for projects or work. I didn’t even have a finished resume until six weeks ago…hadn’t needed one.
But times are different now…
Please email me if you have a lead or an “opportunity” as they are called, somewhere in the greater Los Angeles area.
…back to terrorists on motorcycles later today.