Not actually an IT person, but a number of my coworkers seem to think I am. I’m in marketing and responsible for monitoring the content of a college web site. We’re in the process of switching to a new content management system, and I’ve been helping out the webmasters by doing lots of very low level “tech” support for folks who have even worse computer skills than mine. 
Been working as a sort of software consultant the last 5 years. I understand that the complete title would be something like “Functional SAP Consultant (CS/PM/PP/QM)”. That means I “was a whore before becoming a nun”; I don’t know a lot of the technical stuff so well but I can do stuff with the “standard system” that more technical consultants were swearing would need custom programming (nyah nyah!) and I do understand the customers - sometimes, better than they understand themselves (hey, my current key-customer said that to my boss last week).
It also means I get to:
- occasionally try and explain to programmers what I want them to write for me. Either I’m good at explaining or they’re good at understanding, the stuff usually works.
- explain to customers that computers don’t read minds.
- teach customers who are supposed to be learning how to use this mega-advanced, ultra-nifty, giga-pochillion-dollar piece of software some basic computer skills first.
- write “how-to” oriented manuals, procedures, courses, etc for the same customers.
- explain to customers that “when you decide to change things, things go and change” without using a Sesame Street tone, although I sure would love being able to.
I wanted to be a programmer but Dad wouldn’t pay for that (in Spain, putting yourself through college in any reasonable amount of time is pretty much impossible, specially for technical majors). He had this idea that this computer stuff was so easy and handy that in a few years it would become as necessary and common as writing, and nobody would need a computer degree same as there aren’t “letter writers” any more… Guy was right about the “user” part, he just missed his short on the need for programmers. At home we joke that I was destined to be a computer geek no matter what.
I admonish databases, mostly Oracle but have branched out to Firebird, MySQL, and Access. Been doing so for over 10 years now. Also have some background in Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms.
I admonish Oracle often, but for their development tools. Their database is fine.
Except for 9i which is sucky (according to our DBA). Especially on Linux.
I’ve got 20+ years in the IT industry.
Started out ground level as a programmer on the IBM mainframe platform (os/370) doing Cobol, JCL, DB2 and various related technologies.
As time went on I graduated to analysis and relational database design as well as application integration and design.
Currently I’m an independant consultant doing project management for various client IT initiatives.
Unemployed now due to health reasons and geography; I’m A+ certified and have my own small network (used mostly for gaming.) I never got my degree, but I had twenty credits of IT before leaving.
I spend most of my time freelancing for trojan and virus removal, learning it as I go along.
is anyone hiring? 
I am a Project Manager…a certified project manager…from the Project Management Institute[sup]tm[/sup]
I’m a PMP[sup]tm[/sup] 
My title is Statistical Programmer. The meat & potatoes of my job is programming statistical routines in C++ – routines that aren’t implemented in pre-packaged statistical software like “SAS”, “SPSS” or “S-Plus” either because they’re too specific, or too new.
I also do some S-Plus and SAS programming, but that’s only when some odd request comes down the pike.
We’re a contractor to a big government institute.
I’m very much a one-trick pony act: FileMaker Pro databases.
Well, OK, I’m also adequate for 1st-tier (maybe even 2nd-tier) tech support on Macintosh computers in general. But FileMaker is what I do for al iiving.
Well, my offical title is “Sr S/W Eng - QA” (senior software engineer in the quality assurance dept). Although that’s a little outdated, I’ve shifted around a bit.
Nowadays I’m in the build team, I admin our Clearcase source control system, plus work on build automation and install packaging. I mostly handle source control user issues (answering questions, fixing problems, setting up new projects, etc) and on-going maintenance.
Within this company (I usually describe it as “you’ve heard of Oracle? We’re in the same business, but less well known”), I’ve moved from customer support to QA (software testing), to my current job. Here and there, I’ve picked up some java, a lot of perl, shell scripting, some system admin skills (Unix and Windows), some networking knowlege (mainly to send people to IT when source control is “down” due to network problems), make, ant, InstallShield, and a lot of other random stuff.
It usually seems like if some need crops up and it’s just a little bit outside of the area of expertise of everyone, it gets sent over to me.
Interesting - my first job was SysAdmin for the clients of a company that did FileMaker database development. That is - we would design a database, and if they wanted to roll all their tech into one company, I’d be their IT.
Judging by your location - you may work for the company that I previously worked for. Or we were competitors
I’m a database administrator. I started out working with Oracle, but they’re dragging me, kicking and screaming, into SQL Server. Now they want me to get certification. Bah!
Mostly I’ve worked as an in-house developer for companies that either
a) Resold a vertical solution over and over again to many different customers, did tech support for same, and developed it further; or
b) Relied on some quantity of FileMaker solutions for their own internal operations.
wow, all you software folks make me nervous with your fancy abbreviations and all.
I’m a hardware guy. Specifically an IT Capital Projects Manager. Need fiber optic cabling? Yeah, I take care of that. In building and outside plant. Need a small data center? I do that. Need a power upgrade because all your fancy servers are taxing the facility’s electrical systems? Me. Need a big tower constructed for your DMR or other wireless data backbone? Me again. Been at it for about 5 years.
Generic Sysadminny person here. If it’s windows, I can make it howl. If it’s unix, I can poke at books till it works. My most recent success was getting the Ubuntu LiveCD for Dapper to run off a USB stick. Not as easy as it sounds… the inaccurate instructions I found were for 5.05, I had 5.10 and 6.06.
Done Solaris in the past. I can debug anything, but not a programmer.
Well, my title is Senior Business Systems Analyst. Basically, I’m a hybrid business/tech person. I do some requirements definition and stuff of that sort for larger projects, but my main schtick is using SQL Server with various desktop apps (mostly MS Office and Acrobat) to create custom reporting tools. The business side involves some quantitative analysis work, too – profitability, customer satisfaction, etc.
I just added your sig line to my corporate email sig.
I’m a Coder.
(Although, when I’m being billed out the spec says Senior Programmer Analyst or Senior Business Analyst.)
I have spent most of my career using COBOL (supported by Eastyrieve Plus or DYL280) in MVS|os390|zOS environments, although I’ve worked in VSE environments and recently (after being turned down because I did not have MF COBOL or Unix experience) spent several months using MF COBOL in a Unix environment for a client that had the wit to look at the whole resume and not just the software bullets. (Yeesh! is Vi a nasty bit of junk!)
I have done everything from minor report code changes the the design of a single billing system to replace seven separate systems.