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Consulting as a Career

MIAMI UNIVERSITY. D E P A R T M E N T O F COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE. Consulting as a Career. Panel Discussion. Miami University 1st Annual CSA Alumni Conference October 11, 2002. Neal S. Gray,

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Consulting as a Career

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  1. MIAMI UNIVERSITY D E P A R T M E N T O F COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE Consulting as a Career Panel Discussion Miami University 1st Annual CSA Alumni Conference October 11, 2002 Neal S. Gray, Sr. Principal Consultant, Keane, Inc. Bruce Eicher, VP of Customers, Manhattan Associates

  2. October 2000, Manhattan Associates acquired Intrepa. Serve as Vice President of Customers, oversee Account Management, Client Relations, Customer Support and Knowledge Transfer (training) departments. Co-founded Intrepa and served as Chief Operating Officer. Intrepa was a leading provider of integrated supply chain management Served in Management Consulting for Crowe Chizek, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms. Co-founder and Vice President of Consulting for The Summit Group, now DigiTerra, a division of Ciber, Inc., a leading international systems integrator providing IT services for internet strategy & development 1984 1999 1989 2000 Bruce Eicher : Career Introductions

  3. Consultant, technical developer, quality assurance analyst, project manager, seminar leader. Currently travel internationaly teaching project mangement concepts to clients. Computer Operations Manager for F-H-F, CPA’s, responsible for computer operations, technology consulting and financial model design. Programmer, NCR US Data Processing Group, Dayton, Ohio maintaining and enhancing existing business applications. Programmer and Project Leader, Mead corporate head quarters, Dayton, Ohio developing new business applications. 1977 1984 1979 1986 Neal Gray : Career Introductions

  4. Working Conditions of the consultant………. Smooth and Calm Turbulent and Churning

  5. What the customer wants from the consultant ….. Clear Confusing

  6. Sometimes you feel like …. A hired gun An invasion force

  7. Boundaries of IT consulting …. Finding new ways to get to old places Keeping old technology just above disaster Java, HTML, Interactive Websites Cobol, PL/1, Batch Processing

  8. Sometimes a Consultant …. Stands alone wondering how to get there In a team climbing to new heights of success

  9. Ideas brought to light by consultants …. May be old ideas injected into new situations May be a totally new creation

  10. And Sometimes …. Powerful ideas that change their world Old ideas that make little impact

  11. Some Consultants live …. Take their home with them from place to place By staying close to house and home

  12. Questions ? (And Answers) MIAMI UNIVERSITY D E P A R T M E N T O F COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE Consulting as a Career Miami University 1st Annual CSA Alumni Conference October 11, 2002 Neal S. Gray, Sr. Principal Consultant, Keane, Inc. Bruce Eicher, VP of Customers, Manhattan Associates

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