Re: Feedback On Jobs (ex Re: eBook Accessibility)

  • From: "peter op 't Hof" <opthofp@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:25:38 +0100

Will,

Thanks for the positive mail.
It is such a good adea that i have considered to help you with the Ms Press 
books and others i have.
I can send you the list i have.

Quote:

> There's two prospects here, firstly, due to the improved support offered 
> by
> JAWS for remote clients, this may make the standard network administration
> jobs more accessible than they previously have been.

The last three firms i have worked with had the problem that they offer 
Remote Support.
I have to get rid of the console in an remote session where only bitmaps are 
sent as a screen.
(I guess you know the problem)

Administration i am able to do with Telnet, SSH, Remote CMD (Dameware) 
Browserinterface or Javaconsole.
Sveral customer had agreed this year to place Windoweyes on their Terminal- 
or Citrixserver but my firm gets harder to people and time is monney.
In 1998 i have donne MCSE-traject and in 2000 Novell's CNE but then the time 
of downgrading marckets was going on.
I have some experience with Unix/Linx over the years and donne some 
routerconfiguration.

It is funny i can fill in your 2 other adeas too.

Quote:
The second option,
> would be to consider becoming a consultant on I.T. infrastructure.  This
> would be a consultancy position, maybe even a full time position depending
> on the size of the company, and would involve designing I.T. architectures
> for specific projects.  It's more on the design side of hardware than the
> physical implementation side, but can involve issues such as legacy 
> hardware
> and software and application interoperability, as well as hardware design
> and deployment strategies.  This is one area where big corperations and
> governments need specialists.  So, there's plenty of opportunity there.

Yes i already working in that field but my problem is that for the last 
serveral years i have worked for smaller firms with less qualified 
management.
I am familiair with Prince2 and PBOK and ITIL.

Your last adea is also worthit.
As a vollunteer i have worked on maby accessibility projects.

Perhaps you have Skype and we can talk things over.
I am wondering how you have reached your MVP.
It is wonderfull!

My Skype is found under the name hofcomware.

Send me your privat mail so i can send you the list.

Peter.

>
> The next idea is based on your knowledge of I.T. projects.  There's a 
> couple
> of key standards relating to process improvement, namely ISO-9000 and the
> SEI-CMM.  ISO-9000 is a must for any supplier of I.T. solutions wishing to
> tender for I.T. contracts with most governments and large corperations. 
> By
> achieving level 5 of ISO-9000 a supplier of I.T. solutions can demonstrate
> it has high quality processes in creating it's solutions.  SEI-CMM 
> performs
> a similar function, although industry has not taken the interest in this 
> as
> they have ISO-9000.  So, you could consider becoming a consultant on 
> process
> improvement and or, project management, for the I.T. suppliers wishing to
> gain ISO-9000 or SEI-CMM certification.  You could also consult on project
> management for those suppliers who do not wish to gain certification, but
> who wish to change or implement their processes.
>
> The third is an area in which I'm a researcher.  As you have knowledge of
> psychology, you may consider usability and human computer interaction. 
> The
> aim of HCI, is to try to determine how people will use computer 
> interfaces,
> find problems with designs, suggest fixes for the designs, and sometimes,
> design the initial interfaces based on knowledge of user characteristics 
> and
> how users work.  This is an area that is getting increasing attention
> certainly from the big vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc.  It has 
> not
> really penetrated down to the smaller I.T. companies yet, but there's 
> quite
> a few HCI consultancy companies offering services to web designers.  As 
> each
> web page is just another interface with which the user has to interact it
> offers the potential for usability and HCI assessment and improvement. 
> So,
> there's a pretty big potential market for human computer consultants,
> providing you can persuade web designers and software developers that
> building their interfaces based on how users work is the right design
> decision.  Also, it's worth noting that human computer interaction also
> encompasses accessibility.
>
> Those are just three areas where I would consider looking.  By no means is
> it an exhaustive list, and they offer the opportunity to either be a
> consultant or an employee.
>
> BTW.  You guessed right, I am an MVP for development, although as well as
> doing development I do HCI research and consultancy as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "peter op 't Hof" <opthofp@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:19 AM
> Subject: Re: eBook Accessibility
>
>
>> Will,
>>
>> Your observations are right.
>> Same goes for McGraw.Hill (books in CHM), Premier Press and Prentice 
>> Hall.
>> With books i have no problem and for secure files i use now Acrobat 
>> Reader
>> 7, which is highly improved.
>>
>> But an other thing caches my ear.
>> In your disclaimer i saw you are a MVP.
>> In the past i have donne the MCSE and CNE-traject and for the last years 
>> i
>> have donne work like designing concepts for infrastructure and such.
>> Because my contract with my current firm is ended on  may 2005 i have to
>> orientate myself on the marcket again.
>> Motivation enough.
>> I am a father of a happy family.
>>
>> I guess you are a MVP for developement.
>> I have started as a programmer in the Dosenviroment but changed my way up
> in
>> applicationmanagement,  Networkspeciallist and now cunsultant.
>>
>> With Jaws i can do many things but some remote tasks (like take over of a
>> console) i can not handle with it.
>>
>> I would like to have some feed-back of you which path with Jaws in mind i
>> have to choose.
>> Knowledge for Windows 2003 is no problem.
>> I can do a certivicationtraject but over several years i have to do the
> same
>> again.
>> I am 38 years old so it is now the time to do something strategic.
>> My experience with projects, ITIL and PRINCE2 are enough so perhaps SAP-
> or
>> Business-Consultant is a good suggestion.
>> (what about the accessibility?)
>>
>> I also have donne some psychology and can manage relationships with
>> customers very well.
>> I have noticed that when i continnue the Microsoft MCSE-traject i bounce
> on
>> the fact that i cannot do everything the same or not at all as a seeing
>> person.
>> With the exams i think there are now possibilities to get questions
> without
>> pictures.
>> When i did the traject in 1998 i had a problem with pictures on the
>> Networking Technologies Module.
>>
>> Could you give me some thoghts?
>>
>> (sorry for the bad English)
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>> <Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:42 PM
>> Subject: eBook Accessibility
>>
>>
>> > Hi;
>> > I've just downloaded a few e-books from Amazon, and thought I would
> notify
>> > you of the current state of affairs, as books are useful in a range of
>> > situations.
>> >
>> > Whilst Adobe still allow content publishers to disallow content
> extraction
>> > by access technology, meaning screen readers won't be able to read 
>> > books
>> > that have had this option disallowed, more publishers are allowing it.
> I
>> > downloaded about three books published by John Wiley and son.  All 
>> > these
>> > had content extraction by access technology allowed, which was 
>> > something
>> > Wiley turned off in their e-books only six or so months ago.  So, it
> looks
>> > like Wiley books are now accessible, as well as those from some smaller
>> > publishers.
>> >
>> > Whilst persuading publishers to allow access is a difficult task, and
> one
>> > Adobe should have taken the lead on by not allowing them to disable
>> > content extraction by access technology, it does seem as some of the 
>> > big
>> > publishers are now gaining social consciences.
>> >
>> > Will Pearson
>> > Microsoft MVP
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