> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Grant Shipley <[email protected]> wrote: > How bout a skill set? ;) > > -- > gs >
I have a background in software engineering (Java & C++ with some Python & PHP thrown in for good measure) and systems administration. Lately I've been doing a lot of managerial tasks such as project management, costing, projections etc. My current job involves fixing some telecommunications issues in a rural area of Ecuador. The city reminds me very much of Mayberry from the Andy Griffith show. Telephone calls cost quite a bit, but internet is cheap (however it is also unreliable), so I'm working with the community on developing a fiber to the home project to give each resident up to gigabit speeds (generally we are seeking 100MBs with a capacity to burst to 1GBs), similar to and inspired by Utopia, but funded by residents instead of bonds. This is possible because the major backbone for central america also happens to run right through the center of town and there is a telco switch smack dab in the middle town that peers directly onto it. It's also possible because the regs here state that if 3/4 of residents want something up on a pole then you can put whatever you want there, just get enough signatures. Also labor is cheap, a good paying unskilled labor job is $20/day. My last software development job involved designing a facial recognition system used by hong kongs equivalent of the center for missing and exploited children to aide in locating missing persons. It utilized a PHP based front end to handle uploading and management of photos, then a custom engine written in Java & C++ that implements LBP histograms algorithm for facial recognition. Frankly I'm just an IT generalist. Point me at a tech problem you want solved and I do whatever I can to solve it quickly and efficiently. I'm pretty happy just solving problems all day. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
