HuberBlog ::Jason Huber

I started at Business Integration Group on sept 20th 1999 as a consultant. I was just a programmer doing some ASP 2.0 . My first task was to create the on demand scheduler used for the work management system.

Pretty interesting stuff at the time. Ron Savage and Dean Farrell were the only two names I needed to know and I met with them regularly. At one point BIG grew to over 150 employees with a London office. Quality became my gig as I persued my MBA and generally headed away from programming and into Project management and continuous improvement areas.

It was a great time, but tough always wondering when the small company that BIG was would be no longer. July of 2005 Cushman and Wakefield took over BIG as a controlling shareholder and replaced the board and the executive staff. I was promoted and again it was a good time. C&W didnt have much confidence in BIG a year ago and I think that has changed a lot.

Even so they have decided to take the programming elsewhere and I just cant stick around to see that happen. At times it seems like we are doing an outstanding job in the company and at others you get the distinct feeling that there are to many chiefs and not enough indians.

Dean Farrell and Lee Lasky gave me a few big breaks when I first started at BIG and continued to show me the way. The C&W guys also recognized my abilities and utilized them to a great extent as well. It was great over the past year moving into a lot of the areas I wanted to improve and the past 6 months I think I have done a lot for the company in process improvements and overall efficiency.

Not being part of the next version of the product is going to be tough for several people at Business Integration Group as they move to version 5. I will be on new roads as a consultant at SRP as well as in my career.

Common questions are:

1. Did you take any time off? No. I didnt. I just returned from Yellowstone and didnt see the need.
2. Are you still in IT? Not really. It is an IT project, but I report to the customer service side of SRP.
3. Do I get a discount on my electric bill? No. I am not an employee of SRP (6 month contract to hire) and some SRP employees dont have SRP service, so that benefit might be a bit unfair. Plus I think SRP still tries to instill a conservationist attitude, so giving a discount might encourage usage.
4. Why did I leave. I wasnt comfortable with the changes happenning at Business Integration Group and didnt see a real reason to stick around from a career standpoint.
5. Any regrets? None.