If you work in IT, what do you do?

[acemcmac]

I work for a company that hosts data backup solutions. We are completley disk to disk and handle 99% of our backups over the wire. We also provide exchange/notes mailbox management (bottomless inboxes) discovery and compliance tools. I work behind the scenes on all of it. It's really cool sh!t. I love talking to IT managers when their world is coming down around them, catastrophic failures, etc... only to tell them that everything is okay and that we will either restore 100% over the wire or deliver them a vault with all of their data within 4 hours. I get to deal with clients from all over the world too. Sometimes it can actually be pretty cool.

I think my title is "Systems Engineer"

What do you do?

 

[FoBoT]

computer guy
i do computer stuff

my title is "Infrastructure Engineer"

these days i spend a lot of time writing code to administer/configure systems

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
computer guy
i do computer stuff

my title is "Infrastructure Engineer"

these days i spend a lot of time writing code to administer/configure systems

weren't you military at one point?

 

[FoBoT]

i was an electrician in the Navy, submarine service, nuclear power trained
i learned computers from a hobby and turned it into a job a couple years after getting out of the Navy

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i was an electrician in the Navy, submarine service, nuclear power trained
i learned computers from a hobby and turned it into a job a couple years after getting out of the Navy

ganster. I know a marine that was pretty much the same story... except he had affirimative action to help with his job placement... at my expense

Kudos to you though

 

[Gunslinger08]

I develop solutions in .NET, primarily integrating with Microsoft Content Manager Server and Sharepoint/MOSS. I also pick up the slack in various areas, including networking and system administration, customer support, etc.

My title is "Developer".

 

[Martin]

I dunno if you'd consider it "IT", but I write internal tools. I like it though, since my work is much more more like production software than the half-assed (if nifty) shortcuts that most internal tools are. The last app me and my team wrote was deployed company-wide (~5k people) and we're having a patent mining session about it tomorrow, since it might be productized

Anyway, definitely a cool job for an intern.

 

[mpitts]

I was a Linux / Windows System Administrator for five years. Then I was an IT consultant for three years. Two weeks ago I left the small consulting company that I worked for to start my own consulting business.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: mpitts
I was a Linux / Windows System Administrator for five years. Then I was an IT consultant for three years. Two weeks ago I left the small consulting company that I worked for to start my own consulting business.

how'd you build your client list?

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: mpitts
I was a Linux / Windows System Administrator for five years. Then I was an IT consultant for three years. Two weeks ago I left the small consulting company that I worked for to start my own consulting business.

how'd you build your client list?

Close-contact networking groups and referrals from existing clients.

Some of the clients that I dealt with at the company I left have decided to work with me going forward. That helped convince the wife.

 

[Steve]

I don't know, but somehow it makes me better than you.

 

[BornStar]

I'm Systems Administrator for a small bank. I take care of all desktop, server, LAN, and WAN support. Basically if it plugs in, I take care of it.

 

[tfinch2]

I could give a technical overview, but you might as well say I scrub toilets and clean up after the babies.

 

[Cal166]

Our Company is in the process of looking for a remote backup service. A $500 GC to Amazon for referral will do.

I do high end server stuff like ibm x-servers and bladecenter chassis.

my title is "Systems Engineer"

 

[KLin]

I do a little bit of everything. Desktop support, database support, network support, SMS stuff, PBX support (up to a certain point, then it's a call to the vendor ), etc. etc.

 

[SagaLore]

I am a Level II Network Security Analyst. I manage various ids products, and train/help the Level I analysts. I deal a lot with the raw log data. I have a knack for figuring out stuff that most people can't.

 

[spacejamz]

business systems analyst - using my people skills, i take the specs from the customer and deliver them to the software engineers (programmers)

 

[freegeeks]

IPTV network engineer for a telco company


basically I'm responsible that porn gets from A to B without errors

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: Cal166
Our Company is in the process of looking for a remote backup service. A $500 GC to Amazon for referral will do.

I do high end server stuff like ibm x-servers and bladecenter chassis.

my title is "Systems Engineer"

YGPM

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: freegeeks
IPTV network engineer for a telco company


basically I'm responsible that porn gets from A to B without errors

fvcking awesome

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: spacejamz
business systems analyst - using my people skills, i take the specs from the customer and deliver them to the software engineers (programmers)

Well look, I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

 

[vi edit]

Myself, I'm an application analyst for a healthcare system (7 hospitals). I do screen builds and application support of a couple different systems we have in place.

 

[Blazin Trav]

I don't do IT. IT bores me.

Construction here. I used to be into all that IT stuff but I was more or less the programming side and that got boring, FAST.

 

[Riverhound777]

Not really sure what my job is called, but basically my company is the IT department for a bunch of small companies. We do everything from wiring new buildings to repairing printers to designing web pages to hosting servers to tech support. My fav part is actually going out on site and installing systems or doing wiring. But I do a bit of everything. I guess you could call me an Infustrature Engineer?

 

[Kwaipie]

Network Resource Administrator - 60 Windows servers in my main datacenter, another 30 scattered around the world. Exchange 2003, blackberry devices, sql databases, vmware, oracle on Windows. Roughly 18TB of data in my SAN. pain in the ass to backup.