What exactly does that mean? It means I can talk to the CEO, the Developers, the Users, and make sense out of things, and help you move your business/idea/website further along than where you are. Quite often, a good idea, or a website gets bogged down due to lack of knowledge, or an abundance of misunderstanding and mis-expectations (I also invent words in my free time). Usually, you know what you want the system to do, I help you figure out why it’s not doing it, and what you need to do, to get it there.
The following are the reasons why my phone rings:
- By the CEO/Founder of the Company: Their awesome developer, does not have the skills to fine tune the OS, Apache, or MySQL, so even though the application works perfectly in a staging/development environment, it crashes under the load of actual users.
- By the Lead Developer/Technical Founder: The CEO doesn’t understand why he can’t have all 20 features by next week, I mean he can think of them, so they can’t be that hard to implement, all he wants is a button on the left hand side of that text, that’ll do x,y,z. Sometimes, developers need help expressing themselves in more than just binary. I’m fluent in binary, Trinary, and Bottom line. As a developer, I can usually relate, and help them prioritize the task list, and then show the CEO what we can do, and over what period of time. CEO’s don’t like to hear “It can’t be done”, “It’s too complicated”, “It’ll get done when it’s done” from their own teams, if it is too complicated, I can explain why it is, and what a good compromise would be.
- By the Systems Administrator: Not All Systems Administrators are Database Admins, they may know what to change in the my.cnf file, but they don’t know when to change it, or they don’t know what to tell the developer. Here’s where I come in. Since, I can tell what the system is doing, and what the programmer intended it to do, I can figure out if you need more RAM, CPU, or what changes the developer needs to make in the application.
I understand budgets, I understand the mythical man month, I understand ramp up times. I get the need for security, documentation, and most importantly, I get people. I’ll help you figure out what the best solution is, and how to start implementing it without losing your shirt, or mind.
Want to know more? Contact me.
