[ale] Job change leads to job announcement

[Richard Bronosky]

Congrats on no longer dealing with 65% msft!
On Feb 4, 2013 11:30 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am leaving IBM to join a medical research think tank group at Emory.
>
> That means my position at IBM is about to be available. Maybe. Not sure
> yet how they are going to do things. But at this moment, they are looking
> to add someone to keep my chair warm.
>
> The position needs a person who is OK working with Microsoft (65%) and
> Linux (35%) (Mostly RedHat and CentOS and occasionally SuSE) and willing to
> poke around at AIX and maybe even smack a Cisco router with an upgrade. I
> was __W_A_Y__ overqualified. This would keep a "new person" hopping and a
> mid-level person very occupied. Lots of assorted tech to tinker with. Lots
> of virtual machine work (Vmware and oVirt/KVM) and OS updates and other
> assorted IT support "stuff".  Plus the winning entry gets to inherit the
> pile of bash scripts I wrote to automate as much of the Windows stuff as
> possible so I wouldn't have to touch it :-) .
>
> Warning: email uses Lotus Notes which should be outlawed by the 1972
> Geneva Convention on cruel and unusual workplace punishments.
>
> Using Linux on your main desktop/laptop is very OK and actually
> encouraged. Win7 otherwise. There is an IBM supported version of RHEL that
> is very solid and usable (except for that Notes crap).
>
> If you want to work at the former ISS location, hit me up off-line and
> I'll forward the info upstream. The external job notice is NOT out yet so
> my description may be crap. I've had a lot of fun getting to solve problems
> and create new solutions and poke with a wide mix of technologies. It's a
> good but of people to work with.
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
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> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
> tail. It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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