Disney infrastructure upgrade….

As most of you know if you’ve followed my little site for a while, I’ve been looking long term to shift to a Disney career when the time is right and the opportunity presents itself. 

I’ve come close at least once (they really wanted someone in California vice Florida though), and the guy I would have worked for almost died coming out to interview me because he suffered a post-flight pulmonary embolism upon arrival in Florida!  Thank god he’s alright AND there is a hospital in Celebration. 

I also had an unfortunate phone call with a VP in Imagineering that I wasn’t prepared for (shame on me).  Though I got a couple of nice letters and an e-mail or two from Marty Sklar before he retired.  Since then I think Imagineering has had maybe 4 job announcements and at least one of those was looking for someone who was a specialist in concrete!  They had one other opening I DID apply for last month for a project financial manager, but it has since closed and you can’t even see it on the website anymore.  Hoping it’s still in the grinding machine, cause I haven’t gotten a formal rejection yet.

I’ve also got more rejection e-mails than I can count these days (probably close to 75 at the moment).  Heh.  Thought those have slowed considerably along with the amount of hiring Disney has been doing.  Opportunities are still there; just tougher to come by, and probably harder yet if you’re not already in Central Florida someplace (like I’m not at the moment).

All that’s to say that I try to keep a pretty close eye on announcements in Florida.  Most of the announcements are hard to see anything through other than just what they state.  But every now and then you can get a whiff at bigger things a foot. 

Two recent announcements from both Corporate IT and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts leads me to believe that a major infrastructure update/upgrade is in the works to replace or at least augment the current storage environments that are used across the Disney IT enterprise. 

So if you’re looking for Disney employment and know some serious stuff about enterprise storage management, check out announcements 246400 Senior Specialist, Storage Governance Technical or 246391 Infrastructure Change Coordinator.