[ale] potentially moving to Oak Ridge, TN / Knoxville, TN

[Jeff Hubbs]

Ron -

FWIW, I'm former DOE.

In this day and age, if you actually want to do technical work at a 
Federal facility, you'll pretty much have to be a Federal contractor.  
Back in my day, actually growing and maintaining technical capability as 
a Fed *overseeing* contractors was rather frowned upon.  Personally, I 
loved hitting order-of-magnitude-better price/performance points in 
demonstrations compared to contractors' work for analogous services, but 
those were hollow victories; I'd rather have had the more cost-effective 
solutions actually wind up getting put into practice.

That being said, what you need to know is what all contractors ORNL has 
(some of them may be universities) and whether they have openings.  A 
little educated guessing and Googling shows that SAIC is one and, sure 
enough, UT is another.

- Jeff

On 11/16/10 5:57 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> I am considering a move to the Oak Ridge, TN / Knoxville, TN area.  That is
> contingent on getting a job there.  I have a BS-EET degree and have had
> experience doing flight simulator maintenance for GE and Delta Air Lines as
> well as Teaching Electronics for DeVry.  Along the way I've picked up
> substantial programming and computer maintenance experience.  I have an
> interest in Linux, and am running 3 computers with Ubuntu almost full time,
> but I don't consider myself an expert in Linux.  I would enjoy working at
> Oak Ridge National Lab in the realm of Linux / Programming or Energy
> Research  I would also consider an electronics / electrical engineering
> position.  Barring that, I would enjoy working somewhere else in a similar
> capacity.
>
> So, does anyone know of any contacts in that area which might help me with
> the job search?
>
> and
>
> Does anyone know of a group similar to ALE in that area?
>
> Any info is greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
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