What do you do… now?
I was looking about and I realized that I needed to update with another “What do you do?” meme entry since now I do something fundamentally and completely different.
I work at JMT Systems Consulting as a System Analyst. I never really understood that title. What system am I analyzing? Why am I analyzing it? Do I write analysis reports for a living? Turns out I do not.
First, what JMT Systems, does. Our primary product right now is a software/hardware package that allows municipalities (read: cities and county governments) to perform warehouse management tasks with handheld wireless scanners (think the Wal-Mart price guns the managers have). Our product is well liked by the customers, and I feel really happy about the health of the business in general.
I ended up bringing a lot of new stuff with me to JMT Systems, and I was a little scared about that. A lot of software shops are set in their ways and view change suspiciously and actively resist it. Our team is so willing to listen and consider alternate possibilities, I really do love it. I think part of that however is the fact that I wasn’t bringing new things for the sake of change, but simply because I was aware of some newer practices and tools which I knew developers love once exposed. When confronted with new technologies and techniques, they were … (Dare I say it?) Agile.
One of our core products, Falcon Mobile Server, sits on top of this huge piece of ERM software that city and county governments run to basically manage… everything: warehousing, work orders, permitting, etc. We provide mobile interfaces on little hand-held Windows machines with barcoding and all kinds of fancy stuff. The core interface from our product to the application was showing its age, so that’s my current project: refactoring that into a lean mean extensible beast of a gateway. This paves the way for further upgrades and revisions to the Falcon product to support the latest versions of the ERM software. More supported versions = More supported customers.
We have several other projects going on, some of which are less public. I’m really enjoying working here, it’s proving to be quite challening, which is something I’m all about.
