Job Responsibilities
-identify financial network service opportunities and outages
-strategically define and package services
-provide market research and customer needs analysis
-Define technology and business recommendations, service
solutions and business strategies.
-Lead Project and systems analysis and management
-Network Management consulting and customer network design
engineering.
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Job Requirements
My academic background. I graduated with a Bachelors of Science
in Communication & Information Systems Management from Ohio
University. My core classes range from programming and lab/theory
for Voice & Data Networks, to intensive Business Mgt/Admin and
Interpersonal Communications. From a business management aspect,
I am extremely over qualified for this position. The environment
at this company, from an IT department standpoint, is rudimentary
Network Operation Center and assembly line project/request work.
I've evolved my role. I was originally hired as a Network
Engineer. The job description was a hoaks and led me to believe
that it was similar to my Systems Analyst role @ P&G, but it
wasn't. So, I've evolved my role into what the company was
lacking and has needed.
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Uppers
More visibility than before.
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Downers
Micromanaged, No sense of leadership or direction,
reactive/reactionary environment - no proactive or anticipatory
efforts, subjective unmeasureable enviroment, no clear ratings
system, strickly subjective based on impressions, more personal
than professional, no clear career path within company, no
opportunities for raise or promotion, upper management wants too
much control, too many levels of management and redundant
resources. All functions limited within roles to tangible "Check
sheet" type tasks.
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Lifestyle
Work hours are strictly 8am-5pm. Management expects you to be here at 8am, but
also expects you to stay later than 5pm, no flexibility. Business dress is formal
- ties for men and dress suits for women. There is no business travel for
non-Sales roles. There is little to no diversity. Very caucasian, middle age men
with women in more sales and admin roles. Vacation days are strictly banking
holidays.
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Compensation
It was made clear to me when I was hired that they rarely
allocate budgetary money for raises. I have been at this company
for 2 years (since I was downsized with 9-11) and have not had a
raise or bonus or any rewards or recognitions. I am an
exceptional employee and my story however is the norm.
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Advice to Jobseekers
If you are interested in IT, do not work at this company. This
company is very silo-ed and hierarchical. From a sophistication
and enlightenment standpoint, this company is behind the times.
It is really decentralized (many different isolated business
units/companies) and is reminiscent of a bank from the early 80s.
There was a management change recently which give me hope for the
future; however, management still does not want to invest true
consulting efforts or resources or money into exploring outages
and repairing them. Although I have evolved to my role into
putting some work behind this, I still have no tools, or mgt
support to help me.
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