[wintersforge]

why maine someone asked???

-My wife of 13 years is from Maine. 5 years ago we started planning for a move to Maine. We were both bored with city living east coast rat race type shit and absolutely hate humanity in its many putred forms. IT wise maine lagged behind the rest of the nation (42nd amongst tech growth back 5 yrs) and me primarily being a voice engineer all the work was from Northern Va to NY. Once VoIP technology blossomed i figured this was a good chance to get in on the ground level of a new promising technology blah blah. So i made the transition to Converged Engineering. best fucking thing Ive ever done career wise and for me personally as I was getting bored with Voice stuff.

-The company i left was bought out by an Indian VC group out of Silicon Valley. The Indians were only concerned with getting as much as they could profit wise (they have yet to make a profit which is the irony of their scheme) without making any significant investment into the infrastructure. We had old servers/etc etc but a state of the art Cisco Enterprise VoIP system. I was able to build a global network flipping calls from Bangalore India to Phx AZ to Glasgow UK to Baltimore and back again. So after we move mountains on no budget they cut our software development group thinking they can outsource down to Bangalore India. problem is they had no one that could handle all the proprietary applications we built inhouse to satisfy customer needs etc. They are idiots. So our staff was cut down to 4 then one of the last developers left...at the same time i was looking for a tech company in New England who did VoIP work. I finally hoooked up with the new company who was starting a Cisco based VoIP group. i also get to do everything else under the sun as they do everything tech-wise (today I was trouble shooting a blackberry server...wtf m8).....

Ultimately ill be making a ton of loot and be able to live very well...provide my family with a quality of life they wouldnt get in the Mid Atlantic. Once I get bored of Maine we will move again.....


I just cant wait to get back online and play BF2....fuck I miss spamming "Enemy Boat Spotted"