Job descriptions

So what do we do during the day?

Well, my official title is Senior IT Consultant. That means I get to sit in the big chair in the office, have two 19inch LCD panels, and a blackberry.
Well, really I have to be responsible for managing the 4 projects we've got 'on-the-go' cos the rest of the team are running around like 'blue-assed flies' trying to keep up.
And by the rest of the team, I mean the other guy. Naveed, a great guy who moved to the US from Pakistan with his wife and child, came to Canada 3 years ago to finish off a training course and hasn't left.

So things are pretty busy in our office, the company not only deals with SMB's (small to medium businesses) but also has residential clients who need their modem reset from time to time.
Most customers are about the same size as LANsmart's clients, however they all have multiple servers due to having to be ISO certified and all that jazz. 1 domain controller, 1 for antivirus, 1 for mail, 1 for files etc. You get the picture.
This means a lot of management and a lot of time and work for the engineers like me for when the clients decide things are running a bit slow, we just throw another server into the mix.

It's certainly interesting stuff and will hopefully really develop my project management and customer management skills.


Aimee on the other hand has settled well into her application developer/DBA role. She's working closely with a couple of people in her team, solidifying the database and adding new functionality.

For those of you who aren't in the US or Canada, you won't be able to look at her company website.
The idea is Puretracks are a sub company of the large telco - Bell Canada. Bell decided they wanted to provide music downloads to their customers, so supported puretracks when it was only developing to do their in-house web solutions. Now for $0.99 you can buy a track of music just like the iTunes store. But only if you're in the US or Canada. Somehow this will stop piracy =)

So if you would like to buy some music and you're not in the US or Canada, just post your credit card details in the comment field and we'll be sure to buy something on your behalf.

JOKES!

Disclaimer: Aimee and Chris advise you to never put your credit card into a website you don't trust and that doesn't disply the little padlock symbol.