Re: Bela Lubkin, free agent

From: Dave Dickerson (ddinaz_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:30:38 GMT

On 18 Mar 2005 06:49:54 -0500, Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com> wrote:

>Readers of these newsgroups may wish to know that I no longer work for
>The SCO Group. It has been an interesting 15 years. Lately that's been
>in the sense of the Chinese proverb, "May you live in interesting
>times"...
>
>As I depart, intense work continues on the SCO OpenServer 6 "Legend"
>project. It's going remarkably well given the immense complexity of the
>task. No, I can't give you any more details than the press releases on
>www.sco.com.
>
>If I'm in your address book, enter my armory.com address. I understand
>that the sco.com address will forward for a few weeks, then it will
>start bouncing. belal@sco.com -> bela@armory.com (or belal or filbo).
>
>I intend to continue monitoring the SCO newsgroups for as long as it
>makes sense to do so. That depends partly on what I do next -- if I
>fill my brain up with Mac OS/X or Linux or something else, the SCO
>knowledge will rot a lot faster than if I keep working on SCO OSes.
>
>During what I expect to be a long search for The Perfect Job, I will be
>available to do short-term contract projects. You may have an idea of
>my areas of expertise from reading these newsgroups. My own idea goes
>something like this:
>
> - troubleshooting weird system problems; debugging
> - OpenServer kernel
> - device drivers
> - performance
> - security
>
>I don't believe in flashy glitz. I don't even have a real homepage. If
>you need my services, you know it. I'm not here to sell you something
>you didn't want in the first place.
>
>For consulting/contract matters, contact me at bela_sco@armory.com.
>
>I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.
>
>=============================================================================
>
>"The Perfect Job"??
>
>Ideally, I see myself as a troubleshooting spider in the middle of a
>software maintenance organization. I have a web of connections with all
>the development and maintenance engineers, support, QA, test, doc, etc.
>people. I read source code, I watch code deltas, I look at incoming
>support requests and bug reports, I monitor customer discussions on
>mailing lists and newsgroups. I make connections. People come to me
>with weird problems and I mysteriously already know the root cause,
>because as soon as I hear the problem description, three other seemingly
>unrelated things I had previously observed suddenly click into place. I
>don't manage projects or people, I don't write code to spec. Sometimes
>I spontaneously write code to solve some problem I've observed.
>
>At SCO, I had business cards printed with the title "Technical
>Catalyst". The web form to order cards wanted to know my title; it had
>no preconceptions...
>
>In the real world, the closest matches are probably for positions named
>something like "Escalations Engineer".
>
>If you're looking for me, or know of someone who is, let me know.
>
>It's been fun,
>
>>Bela<

Wow!

Milestone event, end of an era.

I hope you find that perfect job, Bela. Good luck and thanks for all
you've done (and will continue to do at least for a little while) for
this group.

This is going to take a while to sink in.

DDinAZ

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