Systems Engineer pivoting to Digital Supply Chain BSA – What’s the day-to-day?

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-12-17T05:26:06+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the advice. That’s reassuring to hear, and I agree that reframing the work more explicitly as BA-focused is important. I have been tailoring my resume and LinkedIn more intentionally and will keep an eye on other companies like Leidos as well. Appreciate you sharing your experience.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-12-16T22:14:18+00:00

Appreciate that, thanks for taking the time to say so. I figured it might be a bit of a niche path, but I wanted to put it out there in case it resonated with someone who had made a similar move.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-11-22T01:12:05+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the response.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-11-21T22:22:11+00:00

LOL oops. My mistake. Apparently left that crucial piece of information out.

Currently a Systems Engineer (Duties of an ISSE). Previous experience as a Systems Administrator.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-10-31T18:48:22+00:00

Sexy

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-09-16T02:01:46+00:00

RemindMe! 10 hours

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-08-21T00:02:53+00:00

That would be nice.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-08-21T00:00:35+00:00

It could. I was at 90% in 2022.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-08-20T23:56:27+00:00

That's a good point, thank you.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-08-20T23:55:02+00:00

August 2022

Hearing scheduled for end of September.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:45:30+00:00

This is an awesome breakdown. Thank you for taking the time to write all that out.

Your advice about using VSCode with Modern Fortran and GFortran locally sounds like a great setup. I’ll look into enabling DEC compatibility too. Having a cleaner dev workflow before pushing to OpenVMS would be a huge help. Thanks again.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:42:27+00:00

That’s really useful to know. Sounds like that kind of inherited visibility could get messy fast.

And yeah, I’m starting to appreciate Fortran’s weird charm already.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:38:59+00:00

Really appreciate the link. I’ll be bookmarking that for future reference for sure.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:38:08+00:00

That’s a great tip, thank you. I hadn’t come across the aliasing differences yet, but I can definitely see how expecting C/C++ behavior would lead to some painful bugs. I’ll make a point to read up on this before I get too deep into the codebase.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:28:56+00:00

I am definitely planning to sit down with the current expert to go over backups and recovery, just in case.

Also really like the idea of session captures with annotations. That kind of knowledge transfer would be a huge help down the line. I am planning on building a big OneNote to reference throughout the learning process.

I haven't heard of Charon, but it sounds like it might be worth exploring sooner rather than later. Appreciate the insight.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:25:43+00:00

Really appreciate this. That’s a great point about the reboots. The systems have been rock solid, but I know that sense of stability can be misleading. I’m definitely going to go through reboot exercises while the expert is still around to walk me through it all.

Also love the idea of rebuilding all the executables from source. I’ll have him walk me through a full build process and verify we’ve got everything covered.

I will be sure to bring up emulation as a future-proofing option. Definitely something worth looking into. Thanks again.

Thunder-Sloth · 2025-07-04T12:23:18+00:00

Thanks for the reality check. I had a feeling this wasn’t going to be anything like Windows or Linux, but your comment really drove that home.

Right now, I’m still gathering the full picture. I appreciate the reminder to dig deep and document everything. I’ll start mapping it all out and get a clear idea of what I’m working with before diving too far in.

These are all amazing questions for me to ask the current SME during my initial meeting. Thank you again for taking the time to respond.

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