Someone has to be responsible for the whole network, current and future.  Not 
sure you can really contract that out.

Jeff Broadwick
ConVergence Technologies, Inc.
312-205-2519 Office
574-220-7826 Cell
[email protected]

> On May 11, 2017, at 2:15 AM, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm very curious, primarily from owners with admin staff about staff 
> valuation. I'm a pretty critical guy here, I think a lot of that is due to 
> the fact I don't spread my role freely. I'm the admin, , that's pretty 
> straight forward. I'm the tier 3, or two, whichever you assign to tech 
> support that actually solves problems or initiates disconnects that cant be 
> resoled vi a call one.
> 
> We also do network support, I only really generate 5-20 billable hours on 
> that. Not to be cocky, but a lot of those limited 5-20 is my efficiency... 
> I'm really good at my job.
> 
> 
> Last year I recommended dropping one of our techs, which freed up a ton of 
> dough, gave us the option to go to serverplus. the frees uo a substantial 
> amount of my tier 2/3 time (their tier1 is much more inclusive than ours,
> 
> We brought in a contractor on our ISP side to handle the BGP followed by IP6 
> adoption.
> 
> Their continued support for the transit component of our network is not a 
> terrible cost
> 
> What I have found is my cost to the company is substantially higher than a 
> recurring contract with them.
> 
> Essentially, we offset the whole of the transit on our network and more with 
> the ditching 0f the tech
> 
> That leaves me with pretty much posting to afmug for advice on new stuff.
> 
> We have "reliable" outsource site/tower guys
> 
> As an administrator, I genuinely think I found a route to replace myself with 
> a substantial savings, with the exception of new product/technology 
> exploration. a pretty good discount. Installers are just s cost, if we need 
> more, we get more, like fish.
> 
> Assuming you guys have a guy for everything other than going to Afmug to get 
> advice, how much is the afmug guy worth. ( I use the list just for example) 
> 
> I know I'm not the first guy who found what on its face to be a highly cost 
> effective solution to replace their "network guy" and found a flaw
> 
> whats the flaw?
> 

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