Pragmatic Outsourcing

Tips, tricks and traps of IT offshore outsourcing

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nick-krym, office 1-25-09

krym2000-po@yahoo.com

My name is Nick Krym and I am a technology professional with over 25 years in IT industry.  I have been extremely fortunate in my professional career: working with great teams, dealing with real business challenges, solving tough issues, tackling cutting edge technologies, and generally having a lot of fun. Most of my career to date has been in start-up environments providing services and products to huge organizations, Fortune class companies, and consumers at large. That gave me a chance to wear many hats and learn almost every aspect of IT industry. While I grew up to be a jack of all trades I did not want to end up a “master of none” and over past 10+ years I have been concentrating my energy on leading organizations developing software as a head of technology.

The reason I started this blog is to share my 15+ years of experience in IT outsourcing. My first offshoring experience goes back to ’92 when I decided to build my own team based out my motherland, Russia. Those were very turbulent times and my venture did not work out. I found myself predominantly on a buyer side using offshore resources from many countries in different models for variety of roles. I worked with offshore resources in on-shore, offshore and mixed models; with engineers from India, China, Russia and many other courtiers; in ODC, BOT and classic augmentation models, on MIS, Product Development and Professional Services tasks… By no means I can say I’ve seen it all, I’ve just seen a lot.

If you think I could be of help to you as an outsourcing adviser let me know – email me krym2000-po@yahoo.com.  You do not need to have your check book ready, I do a plenty of work pro bono ;)

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6 Comments »

  1. [...] outsourcing vendors place employees on the client site as part of the offshore engagement.  As Nick Krym mentions in his blog post, there are disadvantages to having an onsite offshore coordinator, the [...]

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  2. Nick,

    I could provide you with data revealing what the Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities are, according to oDesk. Please send me an email or give me a call at 650-853-4149 so we can discuss what would be helpful to you.

    Amit

    Comment by Amit Bakshi | January 10, 2009

  3. Nick:

    You have a great bog. I am also blogging on IT outsourcing. We should cross link our blogs. What do you think?

    Remi

    Comment by Remi | January 12, 2009

  4. Remi, thanks, I in turn took a look at you blog and found it very interesting. I added a link to it on my blogroll – not sure whether it institutes crosslinking ;) I am still new to blogosphere. Best, Nick

    Comment by Nick Krym | January 13, 2009

  5. Hi Nick,

    I was looking for an contact email on the blog, but don’t see one. I have a new managerial book out on offshoring (The Services Shift, Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0137133502. Would be happy to send you an inspection copy if you’re interested and might consider reviewing.

    If you email me an address, I’ll get a copy out. rekennedy@….edu. Take care.

    Comment by Bob K | March 13, 2009

  6. Very nice blog Nick, good luck with it, I’ve subscribed via Google Reader. I worked in project management and business development with a global provided of call centre solutions and hence have some experience of the industry.

    Comment by Fergal, Business Advice Forum | September 8, 2009


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