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Consulting as a Career
Miami University1st Annual CSA Alumni Conference
October 11, 2002
Neal S. Gray, Sr. Principal Consultant, Keane, Inc.
Bruce Eicher,VP of Customers, Manhattan Associates
Panel Discussion
MIAMIUNIVERSITY
D E P A R T M E N T O FCOMPUTER SCIENCEAND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE
Career Introductions
Bruce Eicher :
1999
Co-founded Intrepa and served as Chief Operating Officer. Intrepa was a leading provider of integrated supply chain management
1984
Served in Management Consulting for Crowe Chizek, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms.
1989
Co-founder and Vice President of Consulting for The Summit Group, now DigiTerra, a division of Ciber, Inc., a leading international systems integrator providing IT services for internet strategy & development
2000
October 2000, Manhattan Associates acquired Intrepa. Serve as Vice President of Customers, oversee Account Management, Client Relations, Customer Support and Knowledge Transfer (training) departments.
Career Introductions
Neal Gray :
1977
Programmer, NCR US Data Processing Group, Dayton, Ohio maintaining and enhancing existing business applications.
1979
Programmer and Project Leader, Mead corporate head quarters, Dayton, Ohio developing new business applications.
1984
Computer Operations Manager for F-H-F, CPA’s, responsible for computer operations, technology consulting and financial model design.
1986
Consultant, technical developer, quality assurance analyst, project manager, seminar leader.Currently travel internationaly teaching project mangement concepts to clients.
Boundaries of IT consulting ….
Keeping old technology just above disaster
Cobol, PL/1, Batch Processing
Finding new waysto get to old places
Java, HTML, Interactive Websites
Sometimes a Consultant ….
Stands alone wonderinghow to get there
In a team climbing to new heights of success
Ideas brought to light by consultants ….
May be old ideas injected into new situations
May be a totallynew creation
Some Consultants live ….
By staying close to house and home
Take their home with them from place to place
Consulting as a Career
Questions ?(And Answers)
Neal S. Gray, Sr. Principal Consultant, Keane, Inc.
Bruce Eicher,VP of Customers, Manhattan Associates
MIAMIUNIVERSITY
D E P A R T M E N T O FCOMPUTER SCIENCEAND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE
Miami University1st Annual CSA Alumni Conference
October 11, 2002