ATTN "IT Crowd", a little help please.

[JacksColdSweat]

[QUOTE=Big Dog;2040911]
What is your Company / Job title?
What does the title mean you do?
What do you actually do?
Did you need any specialist quals or just the gift?

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This was true until December when I resigned

What is your Company / Job title?
Service Delivery Manager for a software product

What does the title mean you do?
Understand the software and the clients using it and leverage that understanding to design a better product and open us for new markets etc.
Manage the SDLC
Design training materials
Act as product evangelist

What do you actually do?
Managed the build. The software was released prematurely which pretty much meant 24/7 fire fighting for two years. Never lost a client though - very proud of that - given that we were under delivering for a while there

Did you need any specialist quals or just the gift?
Have a Bachelor's degree in IT - but it was experience in the software that got me the job. Started as sentior dev and was promoted into the role.

[ModernAnalyst]

Business analyst this, project manager that. But what do the titles really mean? Not what is the definition, what do you do?

Here are some real Business Analyst profiles:
Business Analyst Profiles

I know you didn't want another definition, but here is also a link with good info on the role of the business analyst:
Role of the Business Analyst

- Adrian
ModernAnalyst.com

[kevfromcoro]

Umm... what is accuatly IT..........

I thought it was an old yamaha

[Drunken Monkey]

Technically, I'm a limited liability contractor, but for the co. I'm currently at (will be moving to another one in a few months), I would effectively be:

What is your Company / Job title? Operations Manager (Network Services)

What does the title mean you do? Look after the day to day operations of the network services team.

What do you actually do? Look after sales, purchasing, quality control, documentation, training, budgets, and give technical support or consultancy services to customers.

Did you need any specialist quals or just the gift? I am no longer qualified, although I am re-cert'ing at the moment. If you want to look for a job doing this (as I have been trying to do until last week), you would best get your tech quals (e.g. MCSE or CCNA or whatever) back up to spec (have to prove you know what your staff are doing) and also more and more some sort of IT standards qual, like ITILv3. I have more than 10 years experience in the industry now. Had a coding 'background', then started off doing DB stuff and reports, then moved on to network services, tried to move back to software, got stuck in network services (Hotel California styles). Like many of my industry peers here, I don't particularly like what I do, but it's the only job I can do that commands the money I make. There could certainly be worse jobs.

If you don't want to identify your employer could you please pm me? Unless you love being micromanaged by a vegetarian control freak, you don't ever want to work where I am leaving. If you do, please pm me. Also, the new contracts are gay.

[CDFloss]

What is your Company / Job title?
Work as a database administrator for a well known website.

What does the title mean you do?
Administer databases

What do you actually do?
Database development, administration, project planning, database design, etc. Its pretty broad.

Did you need any specialist quals or just the gift?
As seems to be the norm here, some people have certs and degrees, some have none and can do the job just as well. So depends on the person.

You kinda need to give more info regarding what direction you want to head in. Saying you want to "work in IT" is like saying you want to be an "engineer" - not nearly specific enough I'm afraid.

Oh, and have you looked here? http://tinyurl.com/dyn9cp (couldn't help myself)

[Big Dog]

Thank you to all that have replied, been away from my laptop for a few days.

[Big Dog]

You kinda need to give more info regarding what direction you want to head in. Saying you want to "work in IT" is like saying you want to be an "engineer" - not nearly specific enough I'm afraid.

Oh, and have you looked here? http://tinyurl.com/dyn9cp (couldn't help myself)

I kind of don't know where too next hence the thread.
I spent the last two and a half years providing second level support for a couple of multinationals. Supporting the desktops, printers and servers remotely.

Basicly if it was accessible by network and it did not work it was my job to resolve it, or if it was "out of my security scope" forward it to a team for whom it was not.
Which is all a long winded way of saying it was my job to fix everything and save three corporations (including the company I actually worked) for about $12m a quarter.

I really like problem solving, making things work that shouldn't / or didn't.
I like to be challenged.
I like to make other peoples day.
I like to have to learn something new every day.

At the moment I guess that makes me a generalist. One who knows more than the average bear about network printing configuration etc.

As to the URL, not yet, was planing to.

[McDuck]

What is your Company / Job title?
What does the title mean you do?
What do you actually do?
Did you need any specialist quals or just the gift?

If you don't want to identify your employer could you please pm me?[/QUOTE]

Orchard hand
What ever is needed.
the shit jobs
The ability to take knocks is helpful, today i got hit in the head by a lump of chain...

[Big Dog]

bump bump

[davebullet]

BigDog,

You were lucky, served your time and were paroled from the prison that is IT. Do not tempt fate and return - save your sanity while you can.

If that doesn't put you off, remember the inept project managers you probably had to deal with or even worse, CIO's who couldn't spell let alone write a strategy!

[Big Dog]

BigDog,

You were lucky, served your time and were paroled from the prison that is IT. Do not tempt fate and return - save your sanity while you can.

If that doesn't put you off, remember the inept project managers you probably had to deal with or even worse, CIO's who couldn't spell let alone write a strategy!

Lol. I remember. Still in because my insanity is gone. Bit like those reoffenders who do so just to return to the insanity of prison that is so familiar now...