Experiences at dbINTELLECT

Recovery or phase management for Fortune-500 distributed enterprise IT projects in North America and Europe, about half and half transaction systems & analytics. Recognizing market opportunity cofounded an automated testing practice serving that segment.

Second most educational job I've had. Tremendous insight into organizations and change from working with the clients. From dbI I learned that the whole company needs to perform or you're done, no matter how well one piece of it works. I guess that's "perspective."

Very interesting parachuting-in on multiple Fortune-500 enterprise scale projects driven by technology. Incredible education in multiple industries, in technology delivery, and in organizational change.

Still predates blogs. There was a lot of history before there were blogs. (Really.)

"Testy People Inc." the name our test consulting team gave themselves. Great folks.

Hunted down by a tech services director I'd worked with as a customer. Apparently I came off as smart. Might have had to do with . . . um, I can't talk about that. (Really.)

I wish we'd pulled it off. Product team in the end just couldn't ship - something that made us in consulting nuts, and those of us with product development experience (meaning me) more nuts. Worse, consulting made money, and the automated testing practice I co-founded made more. So maybe what I'd change is: "Get people who can do the job, and back the people who get it done."...

Varied, depending on the client. Company HQ, with serious architecture and lots of mahogany to camping out in a converted store-room. At one point I did test management planning for an international bank's IT portfolio, sitting at a lunch cafe in Frankfurt. Pre-dates everybody working at coffee shops by about a decade. They thought I was nuts....

Site-specific. Ask about the dinners working on Madison Avenue (in NYC, of course.)

Business casual before it was trendy. Very proud of that fact, as this was an internally-funded startup within EDS. So, that's "business casual, except when you are working in the god pod at EDS HQ. Then it's suits."