Having been in a executive role and an engineering role for over 20 years the one thing that I always would have liked to have is someone looking over my shoulder to make sure that the direction I was taking made sense. I mademore than my fair share of mistakes that cost the companies I worked for thousands of dollars.
Virtualization has become very important in many companies architecture. The problem is that many people who evaluate your current environment don't know what they are doing. They attend a seminar and they think they understand what is needed but they never really get the whole picture.
Want I wanted to do is to take the knowledge that I have and that of my employees and give the market a low cost way to give managers and executives the opportunity to have what they are planning to deploy a review by a disinterested party.
I called many of the people who have worked for me in the past with many different skills and wanted to know if they would be interested in reviewing some documents for me for which they would be paid on a per item basis.
These engineers are some of the best in their areas and have an average of 15 years experience. So what I am selling is not straight consulting because these guys have other jobs but they like the idea of making a little extra money on the side.
I have been doing this now for three years and have been very successful in helping companies save money.
Most companies have great people to do the work but often they lack experience in architecting the new solution because there are areas outside of their expertise hat is where we come in and where most money is wasted.