From Developer to Consultant
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IT Consultancy Abroad Todor Gigilev Dreamix ltd www.dreamix.eu
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About Todor
Senior Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant
Passionate about:
Entrepreneurship
Rock climbing
Snowboard
Volleyball
Proficient at:
✓Oracle Technologies
✓Database
✓Java EE
✓Standard web technologies
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What Consultants Do?
• Work with clients to determine requirements and define the scope of a project;
• Travel to customer sites;
• Analyse IT requirements within companies and giving independent and objective
advice on the use of IT;
• Present solutions and implement new systems;
• Prepare documentation and presenting progress reports to customers;
• Organize training for users and other consultants;
• Identify potential clients and building and maintaining contacts.
Who has done it?
● Acho
● Ico
● Stefan
● Cvetelin
● Yanev
● Tosheto
● Valery
● Bobi #dreamixabroad
Who can be a consultant?
Everybody that is:
● Expert in one technology and has good understanding of the basics of (web)programming
● Has great problem-solving thinking
• High EQ
• Has good communication skills
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How it works
● Immediate start (1 week to pack the luggage)
● 1st encounter in the office
- No 2nd time for first impression
- Be confident & Connect with everybody
- Sometimes you are representing other company
● It is always team work
- Diplomacy vs Respect others
- Be friends, not colleagues
● Always ready to show results
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Useful Tips – Earn Respect
● Know your story and present it
● Give advice based on REAL PROJECTS
- "in my last project for .... we did this, because.."
- throw some company names
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Useful Tips: Make your life easier
● Do your homework–research before going there
- Have some project/code references with you
● Know you have a whole #Dreamixteam behind your back
- Know who to ask and be specific
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Useful Tips: Become an expert
● Enjoy and communicate openly
● Take the chance to improve yourself
● Don't take yourself too seriously
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Useful Tips: Working with others
● Do not over-commit
- Promise only what you can deliver
● Ask for details and use it to socialize with others
● Ask high-level "smart" questions
- “Do you use TDD“, “”What is your development cycle?”
● Validate your output
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