Ask HN: Please help with my experiment (Toronto)
I'm a long-time fan of HN, so before I try the normal job boards and LinkedIN route I thought I'd experiment with something different here...
I've recently left my corporate job at a big 4 consulting company and was due to move over to a sovereign wealth firm when they had a bureaucratic seizure as is so often the case here in the Middle East. I was earning well over $100,000 tax-free and was offered well over $200,000 tax free at the opportunity that fell through. I'm good at pretty much anything I put my mind to, and I'm a nice guy to boot, with lots of big company experience. I've worked for in all different industries, my former client list includes Shell, AstraZeneca, Lloyds TSB, Royal Bank of Scotland and many others. My focus has mainly been "operational effectiveness" (i.e. helping clients to increase revenue of decrease costs), and I have deep knowledge in IT strategy, organisation transformation, portfolio management and other happy sounding business jargon terms (which I can't stand - I guess that's why I never really loved consulting)...
To complicate matters I would like to move to Toronto to get married.
I can offer you 6 years of big 4 experience (Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers) without ever having drunk the corporate Kool Aid (I understand big corporations, but I've kept a startup mindset), I'm great with people, I've managed large teams, I love solving problems, I'm technically minded (though I don't program much these days), and I'm most at home in an interesting role where I have lots of freedom to fix a business and make it grow rapidly.
Give me something interesting to sink my teeth into and I'll move mountains for you.
I'm completely open to the type and size of business that I work for - if you have something interesting and challenging to offer, or know someone who might, get in touch and let's talk...
If not please help out by upvoting :-)
Thanks,
Tom