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Rahul Mehta

2103829550

Required Skills:
Installation, troubleshooting, and configuration of
Symmetrix,dmx,ns600, ns704 , celerra file server, clariion storage
array
Strong systems administration background; SAN/NAS
background;
EMC Product expertise; Veritas Foundation Suite/Volume
Manager; Sun and NT O/S exp.

Desired Skills: Mastery of Unix operation systems (HP-UX, Solaris,
AIX); Very Strong understanding of Windows NT environment; High degree
of working knowledge of Netware; High level of knowledge of networking
structures and protocols; Expert knowledge working with Hubs, Bridges
and Routers; High degree of knowledge of LANS and WANS; Demonstrated
proficiency of Arbitrated loop and fibre channels; High degree of
knowledge of network sniffers

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I've always been curious about job postings like these.   Any larger
company with a large staff specializes their staff in specific areas:
1. for work load management (a full time storage person is needed with
several dozen SANs and NAS devices); 2. for specialty expertise (UNIX,
SAN, WINTEL all require constant training as new technology comes out,
and no one would have time to do high level training in all of them)
and 3. for security (CISCO people shouldn't be able to login to a SAN
device and manage it and vice versa).

So for every large organization I've every seen in which they have an
IT department larger than 50 people, they have a UNIX team, a Windows
team, a cisco team, a Messaging team, a helpdesk team, and a Storage
and Backup team.

But the job postings are like this one.   Be from a large organization
and understand everything.

You're going to either get
A) someone from a smaller shop who does have broad experience in a lot
of different things because they don't have the budget for a larger
staff and have a smaller infrastructure in which a couple people have
time to manage all of the devices, but has no large enterprise
experience and no experience in true high end devices for large
enterprises and no in depth knowledge of any of these areas.  In other
words, it's a second level position.

B) someone from a larger organization with specialized knowledge in a
narrower area (CISCO, SAN, WINTEL, UNIX)

OR

C) a contractor who kept bluffing his way into several positions that
he now has some experience but wasn't good enough to have his company
want to specialize him and make more money.

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On 25 May 2005 07:35:45 -0700, "boatgeek" <dougvibbert@yahoo.com> wrote:

>You're going to either get
>A) someone from a smaller shop who does have broad experience in a lot
>of different things because they don't have the budget for a larger
>staff and have a smaller infrastructure in which a couple people have
>time to manage all of the devices, but has no large enterprise
>experience and no experience in true high end devices for large
>enterprises and no in depth knowledge of any of these areas.  In other
>words, it's a second level position.
>
>B) someone from a larger organization with specialized knowledge in a
>narrower area (CISCO, SAN, WINTEL, UNIX)
>
>OR
>
>C) a contractor who kept bluffing his way into several positions that
>he now has some experience but wasn't good enough to have his company
>want to specialize him and make more money.


I agree with you.  I think he is fishing for someone who has as such on his
wanted list as possible.  One thing is that a small shops usually don't have
Syms and DMXs.  So what comes to my mind is that this guy is a vendor who ha
s
several customers who has a various types of technologies in their
infrastructure to constitute the lengthy list his posted.  Another thing is 
that
if this is for a small company, they typically don't want to pay more than 6
0K a
year like most of their other employees.  60K for all that on his
list............. unfortunately I've seen too many of these job postings.  W
hen
will they wake up.  I don't know about you guys but I know about half of wha
t
he's listed and I make a few peanuts and a bagel over 60K!

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There is a Rahul Mehta which is the CEO of NuView (StorageX).   Kind of
doubt that he would post this though.

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"boatgeek" <dougvibbert@yahoo.com> writes:

>I've always been curious about job postings like these.   Any larger
>company with a large staff specializes their staff in specific areas:
>1. for work load management (a full time storage person is needed with
>several dozen SANs and NAS devices); 2. for specialty expertise (UNIX,
>SAN, WINTEL all require constant training as new technology comes out,
>and no one would have time to do high level training in all of them)
>and 3. for security (CISCO people shouldn't be able to login to a SAN
>device and manage it and vice versa).

>So for every large organization I've every seen in which they have an
>IT department larger than 50 people, they have a UNIX team, a Windows
>team, a cisco team, a Messaging team, a helpdesk team, and a Storage
>and Backup team.

>But the job postings are like this one.   Be from a large organization
>and understand everything.


Well its true that their full time staff is almost always organized like
that, but if you consult in the high end world, by necessity you become
an expert on almost everything.  I've been an independant consultant for
years, and while I started knowing only Unix, it wasn't long before I
knew more about EMC products and software like Timefinder and SRDF than
most of their professional services guys.  Face it, the "high level
training" you are talking about is usually wasted, because you can't
take someone who isn't smart and make them capable by sending them off
to Hopkinton for a few week long sessions at $5000/week, while someone
who is really smart and experienced can pick it all up just reading the
manuals and connecting all the pieces with everything else he knows.

It is a bit funny to see job postings like these, but not even so much
because the list of skills makes it obvious they are looking for someone
they can have call on their list of clients who each have their own needs
(Netware?  Is anyone still using that?)  They make me laugh because the
few people who really are qualified on that list, or even come close,
would never respond to some moron who posts a job ad on Usenet.  He'll get
some unqualified guys who have been deservedly unemployed since the dotcom
bust who doctor their resumes just right but will be quickly exposed once
they get interviewed by someone who actually knows their stuff.  Then the
guy who posted that job spam will join the chorus of hiring managers who
say we need to raise the H1-B visa cap because there just aren't enough
qualified people available in the US :-)

--
Douglas Siebert                          dsiebert@excisethis.khamsin.net

"Pure democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what to eat for
dinner." -- Benjamin Franklin, on why the US is a Republic and not a Democra
cy

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On Sat, 28 May 2005 02:49:31 +0000 (UTC), Douglas Siebert
<dsiebert@excisethis.khamsin.net> wrote:

>"boatgeek" <dougvibbert@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>...........................................................................
....  Then the
>guy who posted that job spam will join the chorus of hiring managers who
>say we need to raise the H1-B visa cap because there just aren't enough
>qualified people available in the US :-)

Are we venting??

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