James Maguire

IT Salary: IT Security Manager (Salary data and job descriptions courtesy of Foote Partners.) Q1 2007 Data: Job Description: Manages the implementation of corporate policies, programs, and procedures to cost-effectively protect information systems assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction. Develops, maintains, publishes, and enforces corporate information security standards and guidelines encompassing data […]

IT Salary: Network Engineering Manager (Salary data and job descriptions courtesy of Foote Partners.) Q1 2007 Data: Job Description: Manages the planning, configuration, installation, systems management, and coordination of enterprise LANs/MANs/WANs, ensuring a cost-effective and efficient infrastructure that will provide the processing power essential to business unit and departmental operations. Is responsible for the technical […]

IT Salary: Senior Java Developer (Salary data and job descriptions courtesy of Foote Partners.) Q1 2007 Data: Job Description: Responsible for Java/J2EE/J2SE application development supporting business objectives while providing expertise in software development lifecycle phases from concept and design to testing. Analyzes, designs and builds component-based applications in a Web/internet delivery environment, including introduction of […]

IT Salary: Information Architect (Salary data and job descriptions courtesy of Foote Partners.) Q1 2007 Data: Job Description: The Information Architect facilitates the development, implementation and maintenance of standards, guidelines and statements of direction for company IT system architectures, establishing a framework that constrains the design of systems for the purpose of integration of systems […]

Just between you and me, let’s be honest: you want one. Oh baby, you need one. Bad. Even saying the name – iPhone – makes you kind of anxious. You get nervous and sweaty and your palms start trembling. Your left leg is shaking and it just won’t stop. Here’s the hard part: you gotta […]

IT certification ain’t what it used to be. So says Foote Partners, a research firm that tracks IT compensation. First, the good news. According to Foote, pay for 149 leading non-certified tech skills grew 4.1 percent in the last six months, and a whopping 9.1 percent over the last year. But the bad news – […]

Blunders. We all make them. With the exception of technology journalists – who are wise, mistake-free individuals – all people and companies commit serious snafus. They simply mess up, big time. Fortunes are lost, wrong paths are taken. Minor concerns are treated as major problems, while looming disasters are disregarded. Visionary CEOs turn out to […]

It’s a move that has the potential to radically reshape the software business. Or, it may be merely corporate saber rattling that has little real effect. Whatever the case in the long run, when Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told Fortune that open source software violates 235 Microsoft patents, it sent tremors through the tech […]

You can hear the grumbling from a far distance. It’s the sound of tech workers complaining that IT certification gets you nowhere. Perhaps tech certs worked magic in the past, but now they’re just a waste of time (and worse, money). In contrast is the sound of companies that sell certification tests to IT staffers. […]

An IT manager gets an unwelcome bit of news as senior execs enjoy pulling the rug out from beneath his feet. “Greg the Architect – ROI of the Beholder” This video was posted by SOA Now Journal, a publication of TIBCO Software. RELATED NEWS AND ANALYSIS Huawei’s AI Update: Things Are Moving Faster Than We […]