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Happy New Year. Do you want to be " s " or " S " or even "slav "??
If you go to the top of this page and click on "Forums" and then look on the right side of the screen,
half way down, you will come to " Top Contributors "
That should explain many of the WHO IS WHO.
Feels like I know you too, LUCKIEST (not LUCK)

Happy New Year !

I was in the graphic arts field for a long time in France, then came to the US to be with the woman I love. 3 years ago we decided to create Natural Elements after discovering the island of Kauai in Hawaii. We found wonderful Hawaiian people, and terrific Hawaiian skin care products.

Jean-Luc

I am the president of a global SME and Corporate Consulting Firm.
We specialize in business planning, financial management (financing), restructuring
and rebranding, management consulting, and more.
We just acquired an Information Technology consulting firm in NY at the end of 2007.
Plans are underway to launch those consulting services in the first quarter of 2008.

CC08

We are still working on deciding which services and departments we are planning on keeping and operating.
Why, what did you have in mind? CC08

As a new member of the community, I joined yesterday, I am interested in knowing who is who and what everyone does or offers. To answer, I design communications cable plants for buildings and businesses in the tri-state area and have been doing it for 37 years. I have been an employee of major corporations, large consulting firms and have run a large cable installation contracting division in the past. I just completed my first full year as an independent contractor, having started in September 06.

When solving problems and deciding WHERE the problems are, Domain Experts are adept at seeing system links or non links and are able to tell where IT problems are quicker.

An example: I could not for the life of me get this credit card company to change the mailing address on my account from my home to my business. After the second call, and asking the service rep what she saw on the screen I was able to tell her to go to the processing service domain portion and change the info there. She had to get a supervisor on the line who had to get an IT guy, but I was not giving up...especially since UPS DUMPED three UPS packages on the front doorstep that contained credit cards and new account info. I now get all of my mail and bills on this account at the correct address. And the credit card company has changed the way credit cards are shipped. UPS now has to get a signature.

Most of your IT consulting will be for mergers and acquisitions and how to integrate two systems and IT cultures. Two sets of managers, two sets of coders..complete chaos. A domain expert like me can come in and identify the problems and get the two sides working together instead of against each other. We see problems (literally) and can see a solution (literally). We are whats called meta-cognitive, we identify problems, solutions and facilitate cooperation. This saves the client lots of money.

Email me at gmftech@aol.com, my everyday address. I am happy to consult and my rates are very very competitive for this type of work. Have laptop, passport and Platinum AMEX...will travel. Since I manage my group online its really no problem.

ajohnsen, Welcome, Great way to start the New Year.
Tell us more about yourself and business. Where are you located??
Do you have an accountant?? I ask everybody if they have a Business and Marketing Plan??
I am a Quickbooks Consultant.
Good luck, LUCKIEST