http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/585998?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/assets/images/jobster/logos/rss_logo.gif http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/585998?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Fri, 18 May 2007 23:19:04 GMT Most recently updated answers by Jim Ludwig http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/133278?answer_class=AnswerBase WatchMark made a suite of dovetailed products designed to support the build-out and management of wireless/mobile/cellular networks for telecommunications companies. My primary focus was to go to a customer site, overseas, and to complete a bullet-list of tasks within six months. Most of this involved writing software to communicate on one side with WatchMark's network management software and on the other with a whole host of various network elements from various vendors (voice mail systems, short message systems, base station controllers, mobile switching centers, etc). I needed to ensure that the network management software was able to get/set fault management data and to get performance management data. In addition to writing software, I often had to negotiate with other on-site vendors to ensure they were able to provide an API (or, at the least, a command-line interface) for managing their systems, as the whole idea was to provide a single network management interface to the network operations center (NOC) for a heterogeneous communications network. While not overseas, I was on the team of engineers who wrote the next iterations of the network management software. Fri, 18 May 2007 23:19:04 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/133278?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424907?answer_class=AnswerBase Regarding willingness to relocate, I take the extremes: while I'm not even willing to take a job on the East Side of Seattle (Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland), I would be completely willing to relocate to Czech Republic or to France. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:33:56 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424907?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424906?answer_class=AnswerBase My very first job was delivering newspapers on a 12-block route in 7th grade. I got up really early, before my parents were awake, before the sun even thought about coming out, and walked to the curb to hike the stacks of papers back to the living room. Before folding up my first paper, I would read my 5 favorite comic strips, including Bloom County, while soaking up the smells of fresh newsprint and unused rubber bands. On Wednesdays and Sundays there were extra stacks, ads, which needed to be delivered with the papers. I walked the route my first month, but I rode my bicycle thereafter, which was mostly a challenge in balance. Most days I would need to come back home mid-route to re-fill my pouches. Wanting the tips, I was perhaps overzealous in my endeavors to throw the papers on the porch, for I dented many a screen door. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:31:39 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424906?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424905?answer_class=AnswerBase Other professions about which I find myself curious include being a high-school teacher and being a bicycle messenger. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:22:14 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424905?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424904?answer_class=AnswerBase The physical environment has an open layout (no cube walls). The electronic environment is not pre-defined, leaving me free to choose my own operating system, my own editor. The cultural environment is not concerned with whether or not engineers wear shorts, for example, yet the people are professional, very smart, friendly and funny. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:20:22 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424904?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424903?answer_class=AnswerBase When I'm looking for work, I seek positions where I will be not become bored, where there are hard problems to be solved. They involve writing software, and there are plenty of opportunities for learning. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:17:06 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424903?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424901?answer_class=AnswerBase If I had to choose, Facebook. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:15:13 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424901?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424900?answer_class=AnswerBase High plains drifter with a laptop. Sat, 03 May 2008 10:14:18 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/424900?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196009?answer_class=AnswerBase I became a software engineer when an ex-girlfriend challenged me to take the introductory CS 210 class at the University of Washington in 1990. She got a 0.7, which is barely passing, and she wanted to know, I think, if I'd do much better. I fell in love with the class. I got a 4.0 in it and in the next several CS classes to be taken. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:16:20 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196009?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196012?answer_class=AnswerBase While my "parachute" is actually a paraglider, it is purple and yellow. Sun, 13 May 2007 02:06:41 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196012?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196011?answer_class=AnswerBase I would like to most live/work in either (a) a French-speaking part of the world, or (b) Prague, Czech Republic. If the first, it's because I still would like to become fluent in French. If the latter, it's because I love Prague. Sun, 13 May 2007 02:05:44 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196011?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196010?answer_class=AnswerBase If someone were to want a job like mine, I would advise them to be in love with solving problems, to be slightly obsessively-natured in general. Sun, 13 May 2007 02:04:39 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196010?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196007?answer_class=AnswerBase My most influential mentor came in the form of a friend at university. We mentored and challenged each other. What he taught me was that UNIX/X-Windows is infinitely configurable, such that you can adapt your computing environment to you, not the other way around. Sun, 13 May 2007 02:01:12 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196007?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196005?answer_class=AnswerBase While it's been a while since I've thought about this question, the old answer I used to give for a profession other than mine which I'd like to try was a bicycle messenger. Sun, 13 May 2007 01:59:46 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196005?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196004?answer_class=AnswerBase My first job out of college, with a fresh BS in Computer Science, was in 1995, writing a UNIX-based web server with 2 other guys. Sun, 13 May 2007 01:58:57 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196004?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196003?answer_class=AnswerBase I'm looking for a job wherein I can continue to write web applications, continue to learn, and continue to write fun and anal code. Sun, 13 May 2007 01:58:08 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/196003?answer_class=AnswerBase