Assignments came out today and this was the last client I thought I would be paired against, but my boss Todd, as soon as he saw the scope of work, said, "Right up your alley!" So, if you remember the list of clients I posted the other day, I will be working for "The State Agency on Science, Innovation, and Informatization of Ukraine." By the way, it's not a typo, it's spelled with a z. The project title is called, "E-governance system concept," and the objective is to design an e-governance system concept to allow interaction between diversified databases and IT resources. We have been advised that the concrete objective will be flushed out in the first few days after our arrival, so more details on that to come later.
You may be wondering what the blog title has to do with the assignment choice, but this will be the third government I have worked for. Kinda cool if you ask me. My first, was the U.S. government when I was an airman in the U.S. AirForce right out of high-school and I was working during the day and going to college at night. The second was with the Australian government when I finished my Master's degree and I was working for the Embassy in Washington, D.C., and now I'll be working for the Ukranian government with this CSC assignment. I can just hear the comments now in my head from my mentor at work, Brian, he'll have some "Bond Girl" reference, I'm sure. If only I looked like a Bond Girl....you know, bikini wearing knife wielding sun-tanned, sea kissed 5' 10" girl, sadly I'm only 5' 8".
My team (OK, not mine but the one I'll be working on) has two other members - Shiva who is from India and Paul is from Australia. When Shiva introduced himself to the team he mentioned that he's a strict vegetarian and that is his biggest concern going to Ukraine, will he be able to find enough vegetarian dishes. Ukranian food appears to mix vegetables and meat together in one dish and that is right up my alley, it just might take the place of the Tex-Mex I probably wont get. Besides having an Australian connection with Paul (for those who don't know I was born there and moved to the States when I was 13), he and I hit it off after I teased him about using all his annual vacation one year to visit not just Disney World in Florida, but Disneyland in California - yes you read that right - two Disney theme parks back to back at one time. Who does that? I don't think I know anyone who has ever gone to both parks in a lifetime let alone one right after the other. So I'm curious --- for those that have been to both - which is best, Disney World or Disneyland?
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