Email Response: May 16, 2012


Hi, I’m in R&D and not IT so you should seek someone within linked-in (I assume how you found me) from the IT department. As is typically the case the open go for leading edge (today’s bleeding edge is tomorrows leading edge) approach that R&D wants to take is always at odds with the conservative approach that IT needs to keep costs down. So its best you continue your effort to find another door into IDEXX. 

On the other hand I do have projects with USM and have hired summer interns that have become employees.  Depending on what you are looking for it may not hurt to talk. This summer I’m specifically looking for someone to work in a unix/windows mixed environment in the configuration management field. This could entail support of developer environments typically eclipse based and continuous integration build for testing systems connected to our SCM and ALM systems. Not often the topic of interest to computer science students but if your tracking IT type systems and students in that arena it could be a match. And as R&D we typically are not afraid of the open source world to draw tools from, where IT will go there but only via a RED-HAT with enterprise support type effort.

Thanks and good luck,
-dcb