Wednesday, July 10, 2002

It all began back in February 2002, when I left Accenture, LLP, the world's largest consulting company. I had been with them a little under a year and suddenly found myself thrust into the realm of being a Free Agent. I began to look for a permanent job but there were none to be found. So I packed up my resume and started pounding the pavement looking for contract work. I did some work for UserLand Software, which eventually landed me my first contract with Bank Street College. During the course of that work, I continued to marketing myself. I found a firm called "Darwin Partners" that markets themselves as a consulting firm, but they keep a virtual workbench of consultants rather than carrying the overhead of people like Accenture. They offered me a position on a contract in London for Sun Microsystems, but I had just signed the contract with Bank Street College. So I turned it down. That was four months ago. My first contract with Bank Street College came to an end on June 30, but I am still doing work for them. I am currently pushing for them to keep me on retainer to do odd jobs through the remainder of the year. As this contract came to an end, I contacted Darwin Partners again. This time they had a position on a contract in Seattle for AT&T Wireless for me. I accepted and we are preparing to start the project on July 22nd. Getting ready to the project has been interesting to say the least, but that is a topic for another post. The work at Bank Street College is worthy of a few posts itself. More later. 4:57:29 PM    comments ()

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