A.P. Lawrence

Bela Lubkin now available for consulting

(This was taken from a newsgroup post at comp.unix.sco.misc and comp.unix.sco.programmer but duplicated here because I know many of our readers will be interested - Tony Lawrence)



Author: Bela Lubkin
Date: Fri Mar 18 12:45:55 2005
Subject: Bela Lubkin now available for consulting
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer

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. b...@sco.com -> b...@armory.com (or bela_sco 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 at the ...@armory.com.

I'm also listed on the aplawrence.com consultant search.

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"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<