Technology

I’m looking for people who have experience in Amdocs. I realise that this is a difficult thing to find these days, so I’ll be happy if I can find people with Oracle, SQL Server and Unix skills (and are willing to learn).

Send me your CV or get in contact with me (info at lisaillichmann dot com) if you’re interested in opportunities in Vienna (freelancer and fix employment contracts). English and German speakers welcome.

Are you an experienced web programmer looking for new fun in Carinthia or do you know one? Well read on.

I’m looking for web programmers with good to very good scripting skills (ASP, PHP, Java, Java Script) and experience in data base design and programing (My SQL, Max DB, Access, SQL Server). Ability to work in a team and functioning communication skills go without saying.
But don’t worry, your English doesn’t have to be as good as mine ;-).

If everything fits to you except the team and communication part (let alone the English part), then contact me anyway. I have something else for you.

Und wenn Sie gar kein English sprechen (aber wenigstens Deutsch), kontaktieren Sie mich trotzdem.

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Hey, all you finance specialists out there. I’ve got a great career opportunity for a project controller with a degree in finance (or something similar). And if this person also has experience in software development, then guess what? -

I’ve got a great job for you - so drop me a line.

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For years companies have spent their energy gathering and hoarding data. Data about their customers, their potential customers, their customers’ customers, their employees, their employees’ sales figures, their revenues, their costs, and so on and so forth ad nauseum. Basically not a bad idea either, considering the fact that, generally speaking, the more information you have to base your decisions on, the better your decisions should be. The more information you have about your company and market, the higher your chances should be of recognizing and utilizing possibilities, identifying and avoiding pit-falls, and ultimately boosting your return on investment.

This idea of business intelligence (BI) has been, and is, a large issue for organizations and companies throughout the world. According to some experts, BI is (or should be) one of the top priorities of all companies today. Sounds important - and it is.

Logically, collecting data alone won’t help companies at all. Just having the information doesn’t help, if it cannot be easily found, accessed, and used for analytical purposes.
And here lies the crux.
You can imagine the excitement in the office when Mr. Data Compliance from The Large, Famous and Very Expensive Consulting Company comes to do his audit and finds zillions of Excel spreadsheets stored locally on individual desktops. (Ahh, thank you, Bill Gates - gotta love the guy.)

Obviously, management and IT have got to entertain open communication channels in order to design systems (data warehouse systems) that businesses 1) want, 2) need, and 3) will/can actually use.

It’s not always as easy as it sounds. Data warehouse experts are often confronted with seemingly non-combinable heterogeneous systems and varying management requirements. Systems can only be as good as their architecture and the quality of their data (and the good-will of Frau Tralala who feeds the system with the (hopefully relevant) information). To get an idea of some of the problem areas, here is a pertinent post from a self confessed data warehouse noob.

Why am I writing about this now? Well, because I have a customer who is looking for such an expert, and hence I am, too.

Who are we really looking for?
Well, we’re looking for somebody for the conceptualization and design of such a system (at a company in Vienna). We’re looking for somebody with more than 5 years of experience in heterogeneous IT systems, business logic knowledge, and the ability to understand and implement complex requirements and needs.

Want to learn more? Please contact me for a job specification.

For others, here is a site with more-or-less understandable information about business intelligence and data warehousing. And here something for the easily intimidated. Here’s a post called datawarehousing for cavemen (again more for the quickly daunted).

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I found an interesting article about women in technical fields here (in German, so square your shoulders and pull out your dictionaries). 

Even Austria (AMS - the state employment agency) and Austrian companies (Infineon for example) are setting measures to help women get their foot in the door of technical fields. An excellent idea, considering the current development in the job market and the poor pay in conventional women’s fields (especially out here in the boondocks).

Of course, you have to wonder about the effectiveness of these programs (especially the AMS, seeing as its reputation is not the best). But all this might represent a step in the right direction and might help women get the help they need to even consider a technical career (not very common here in traditional Austria, where many women still wear the venerable “Dirndl” and go shopping with a basket every morning).

Most all the well paying jobs here in Austria are still dominated by men, but with support (and a ritual basket-burning), we women might be able to catch up with those male big-earners one day. The coming generations aren’t going to put up with the same discrimination that we, and our mothers, had/have to deal with.

The key is education, self confidence and tenacity (good communication skills can’t hurt either - and trading the baskets in for briefcases and/or sleek handbags is a hot tip too, ladies).

So girls, get movin’. Let’s hit the fast lane and earn beaucoup bucks.

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I went to the barcamp in Klagenfurt with Werner yesterday. We had to leave early because yesterday was Faschingssamstag and, you surely understand, you can’t miss the Fasching parade in Villach. I promised myself I’d go back on Sunday.

But I didn’t go back. I couldn’t go back. I just simply didn’t have time to go back, I was busy. I had some serious thinking to do.

My head was reeling from my one and only session on Saturday, Time and Ideas for Blogging (Monika Meuter, soisses and Bindestrich). 

Monika slapped me around and battered my head. She was ruthless and unrelenting. She told me terrible things and was adamant that I listen. She out and out told me some truths (don’t you sometimes just hate that?).

She told me that blogging had to do with establishing rituals and routines. She said she had noticed that I seriously lack both. (But she did not mention my lack of self-discipline, for which I was grateful).

She urged me to turn over a new leaf and become the blogger I was, perhaps, meant to be.

Hmmm. Let me put this together a bit in my own head.
Routines have to do with rituals, rituals have to do with self discipline (I got that), self discipline has to do with planning, planning has to do with organization (there’s a tough one), organization has to do with less work (I’m beginning to like this), less work has to do with effectiveness, effectiveness has to do with success, success has to do with lots of money, lots of money has to do with more leisure time (there just might be something to this), more leisure time has to do with, well uhhh, me.

Okay, okay, okay.
Monika, you win. I’ll do it. I’ll change my slovenly ways. I’ll pull myself together. I’ll get, and stay, organized, routined and ritualized.

My blog shall reflect these personal changes.

1) Every Sunday I will post about current affairs, off-topic items that catch my attention, bring video clips, poke fun at politicians, go on and on about my marvelous horses, or something completely different.

2) Every Wednesday I will post about communication and language.

3) Every Friday I will post about jobs, head hunting and things of that nature.

I am going public with this moment of personal growth, so be supportive here. I am putting myself under immense peer pressure to stick to my new and modified blogging behaviour (and that while living out of boxes, eating corn flakes out of kitty-dishes - figuratively speaking, of course).

Watch me, help me, keep me in line. If I start becoming lax and far too casual then please yell at me (or post appropriate comments) and get me back on track.

I can do it, I know I can.

Here, in case you’d like to read about it, are some posts about some of the other sessions, and here, here, here, here …

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Hey, I just registered yesterday for the barcamp in Klagenfurt (February 2+3 2008 at the Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt, Carinthia). I went last year too, and that’s what got me blogging . Okay, truthfully told, I was there because Ed thought it would be a good idea. And he turned out to be right (as usual, sigh).

The really exciting thing about this barcamp - and the thing that makes it different than the other barcamps - is all in the name “Sensa Confini”.  This barcamp is geared for people from Austria, Italy and Slovenia/Croatia. And, even more wonderful for us English speakers, it will be held primarily in English.
And a good thing too, ’cause I wouldn’t have translated for you anyway.

So get your traveling shoes on and come on down!

(I hear some mutterings in the background) You don’t know what a barcamp is?

Come on! Join the real world!

A barcamp is an un-conference for topics around technology, web 2.0 and social media (I got that out of the homepage). And more importantly (again out of the homepage) A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.

And it’s interesting, informative and just a bit fun.

If you want to do some reading about it then look here, here or here  (that’ll help you polish up your German).

Here’s the link to get registered and here’s the link to the official site (at least I think it is). It’s definitely worth a visit. I learned a whole bunch the last time and that really gave me the confidence to jump on the band-wagon, as it were. I recommend it to everybody who is interested in technology or web 2.0.

Let’s get lots of us foreigners down there (or up there, depending where you are). I hate always being the token one.
Look forward to seeing you!

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