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Offline jfarschman

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Looking for a consultant
« on: March 21, 2008, 07:10:07 PM »
Hi,

  I'm looking for a consultant to take over my SME practice.  I have 20 some customers who need someone they can call with problem... someone they can ask for consulting work... etc.

  Favoritism will be shown to hard-working members of the contribs team.  They should get a big life bonus now and then and I have one to give at the moment.

Best regards,

jay@hitechsavvy.com
Jay Farschman
ICQ - 60448985
jay@hitechsavvy.com

Offline jfarschman

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Re: Looking for a consultant
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2008, 10:47:55 PM »
Let me add...

  All of my clients can be managed remotely.  I almost never visit a client in person.
Jay Farschman
ICQ - 60448985
jay@hitechsavvy.com

Offline pfloor

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Re: Looking for a consultant
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2008, 01:26:36 AM »
You might want to add these client's location/language to your post.
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Offline shawnbishop

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Re: Looking for a consultant
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2008, 11:10:18 AM »
Hi

I can do it, I am located in South Africa though??..if that isnt a problem and can do everything remotley..I currently support about 40 SME customers...

shawn_r_bishop(at)yahoo.com

Cheers

Offline jfarschman

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Re: Looking for a consultant
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2008, 04:40:52 PM »
Okay... a little more about the clients:

  6 - Speak Spanish Only... and I have found a fellow in Argentina who will take care of these.

  3 - High Availability Customers - For instance a credit union (bank).  If they have a problem they need an answer quickly.  I think I need someone who works during the USA working hours for these customers.  These are the most difficult customers to find help for.

  3 - ISPs/Hosting - One ISP is running SME as the email server for 2500 users.  It's a cool implementation, but to support this you need to understand routing and firewalls because they do call for help... but it's only about the SME server 1/3 of the time.  The other 2 are running BlueQuartz (formerly Cobalt RaQ servers with sendmail etc).

  The rest are more flexible and include hardware stores, churches, venture capital companies,  oil and gas, software dev, schools, manufacturing, architecture, travel agency, and sales.  SME hardly ever breaks unless the sys. admin does something foolish and these sys admins are not foolish (anymore)  All the hardware is DELL... so if there is a hardware failure call DELL and they can come out and fix it. 

  I do not do onsite visits.  Instead, I'll talk the sys. admin through any hands on work.
Jay Farschman
ICQ - 60448985
jay@hitechsavvy.com

Offline Franco

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Re: Looking for a consultant
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2008, 12:19:40 AM »
I'll be glad to help if I can. I'm always on the move between South America, US and Europe (about 4 months in each/year). I do support the Bluequartz (any variant), SME, and others. I also speak many languages ;).

Thanks,

Offline shawnbishop

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Re: Looking for a consultant
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2008, 08:24:49 AM »
Hi

As above I can support most of the installations and have alot of experience on firewalls...

Have a help desk with Skype, MSN etc...