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You do not have to be the best at what you do.
It is better to be doing what others are not.
— Thomas Jefferson, American Statesman (1743 – 1846)
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What I Do Best
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My resumé is very diverse — at least that's what I have been told. When hiring managers look at my work history they see a mixture of product, program, project, solution, sales, service, interface design, production, business, software, and integration. They often say they are impressed with all I have done in the past, but they are not sure what it is that I can do for them. The complexity of my history masks the underlying simplicity of my approach: "While I have held many roles, there is a consistency in my practice ...
 ... I specialize in being the bridge between disciplines."
Everyone develops specialization — mine is integration. The integration of ideas, people, organizations, processes. Bringing separate elements together opens up new possibilities and new challenges. I am the person that gets the complex integration challenges because I appear to have a vision on how to solve a problem. I keep the role because I am able to make progress where others have not. I get the next challenge because I was able to successfully deal with the last one. It becomes a theme in my career and employers tend to forget that there are other things that I also do well. |
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