Monday, April 7, 2008

My life with Notes/Domino

There's a thing going around Notes folks on the web talking about how they got started with Notes so I guess I should add my story to the mix.
I was working at a retail bank in Scotland in a group that handled all the non-mainframe systems in the IT Division. As was the norm, we were heavy IBM users so when they pitched Notes to us we bit. My first environment consisted of 14 servers in three locations, running R3 on OS/2 1.1/2.0. The fun part was the use of TCP/IP and Anynet (precursor to IP subnets) to connect the locations together over X.25 . . . .
Since then I've worked at IBM as a contractor handling PartnerInfo servers in Europe, pre-sales engineer for a software company that sold a Domino Server management tool (got me a move to the US!), IT Manager and consultant for IBM BPs in California and Arizona, started my own consulting practice and currently in tech sales for another software company. All the while I've been working with Lotus Notes/Domino.
My claim to fame is I have only had 16 hrs of formal training for Lotus products over the years - R3 Sys Admin 1, 15 years ago . . . . .