Re: Bela Lubkin, free agent

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:53:03 -0500

Bela Lubkin 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<

Bela,

Your posts here have helped more than you can know. Best of luck.

Steve Lancour

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