International Consulting Alliance doesn't generally have available consultants. (Except for the President who is always looking for a reason to be out of the office!) That said, we don't mind parking resumes of friends and employees here on the off chance you see someone you like and want. So please feel free to contact us with regard to the people below.

Fellow Consulting Firms

We take an open door policy to people and will not stand in anyone's way in their pursuit of financial or emotional well being.

If you are willing to find any of the consultants below a job, but, you want us do the payroll end and hire them from us corp. to corp. then we will have to charge our standard fees from gross dollars received.

If you are willing to find any of the consultants below a job and put them on your payroll, we aren't going to ask for agency fees. Just a note though, so far we have a 100% return rate of consultants who have hired on with other firms. Someone said we spoil our people too much, mostly we just stay out of their way and let them do their jobs.

Asking for non-compete agreements is expected.
{"The President" forced me to put that in there, like it would need to be said about two separate consulting firms doing business together. Two wet cats in a closed box comes to mind. wm.}

People Available (Last Update: Sept. 15, 2002)

UNIX and Oracle

We have two contacts that are at the senior level with Unix (Sun) and Oracle. Each has approximately 15 years coding experience with the last 5 years in active Unix and Oracle development. One is available immediately, while the second is working perm but looking for something more challenging.

We can also point you to a company of Oracle DBA consultants. The president enjoyed working with one of the founding members while a perm at Dell.

Senior TANDEM Tech Writer

We have a contact that has over 20 years experience and 10 plus years in direct work as a TANDEM technical writer on both the systems and application sides. Currently desires to head a site wide documentation project (see employment page).

TANDEM COBOL and TAL

Approximately 5 contacts that range between mid level and senior level. One is not available before February 1, 2003; the others range in available dates. Jim, a senior level applications programmer, has his resume here.

Network Engineer

We have two contacts that are mid level. One contact that is extremely talented would prefer to stay in Houston, Texas. The second one is currently employed but looking for something more challenging.

The President, Michael B.

I'm most always looking for some gig to get me out of town or even overseas. If you are looking for an MBA trained project manager or jack of all trades programmer give me a buzz. Be it TANDEM Cobol, Visual Basic, multi Terabyte data warehouses, Linux routers, or some arcane software package from hell, I enjoy the challenge. Ugh, I'll even do documentation if you so desire.

Most enjoyable recent project

The client wanted a .txt data file converted to a structured record import file. Of course the data file was this blob of a monstrosity created by cutting and pasting, in a seemingly random order, from tablized web screens for data spanning a year or so. Using Excel Basic code (hey, it was cheap, easy to code, and really not as buggy as some would say, it only crashes your PC once or twice a day now) and a week's worth of time turned their blob into converted, tested, and imported data for their accounting system. Reason it was enjoyable? The expression on their face when I said I was done. (They had two other proposals to do the conversion, one for 4 weeks, and one for 6 weeks.)

A Project I Would Like

Project manager in charge of building a large distributed processor cluster. This, to me, seems to be the next step for large-scale application platforms. Given that most networked computers in a corporate environment don't do much (Reading email, typing in word, and crunching in excel aren't likely to tax a current day processor, much less what the workstation is doing at night.), why not use them for your applications? Throw a layer of encryption over a distributed.net type client using the techniques from Clic banging against a SAN . . . This just seems to scream cost savings as you move those non-critical applications off dedicated servers.

Skills/Hardware (for the search engines and some of these are very rusty)

Project Management, TANDEM [COBOL, TACL, ENFORM, SQLCI, DBBatch, NetBatch, EasyPath, Most Utilities], Visual Basic 4.0, FoxPro DOS 2.0 / 2.6 / LAN, FoxPro for Windows 2.5 / 2.6, FoxPro Distribution Kit, Visual Source Safe, PVCS, SQL, Novel Netware utilities 3.12 / 4.0, LAN Workplace 4.12 / 4.2, IBM DOS 4.0, DOS Batch 4.0 / 5.0 / 6.2, MS DOS 5.0 / 6.0 / 6.22, cc:Mail for Windows 2.2, ABC Flowcharter 1.13, Visio 2.0 / 4.0, Microsoft Project 3.0, Windows 3.0 / 3.1 / WFW 3.11, Win 95 / 98, MS Office Pro, Windows NT 3.51 / 4.0, Access 2.0, Tandem NonStop C30 - D31, IBM PC 8088 - Pentium, Novell Servers, VMS VAX 11/780, IBM VM, Sun UNIX, TANDEM TAL, MS Visual C++ 1.5 / 2.0, Oracle 7, UNIX C, Visual Basic 3.0, Linux and Linux Routers, Clipper 5.0 / 5.2, Lotus 123, dBase III+ / IV, Apple IIe / Macintosh, MIL3