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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
If you want the inside skinny about outsourcing/offshoring and the global project management marketplace, ask Mark Vorholt and Joseph Collard. They’ll tell you straight out that those are more than just the hot business buzz terms of the moment. The words describe a complex and difficult method of conducting business, as well as a hard-to-achieve-and-master career niche that requires major lifestyle adjustments.
In the paragraphs ahead, you’re going to get an inside look at this world. Our guides are two men who live it 24-hours a day.
Vorholt is the chief technology officer of dbaDirect, a Cincinnati, Ohio-based database management company whose clients include a cross-section of large and midsized companies in all industries. The former PM directs the company’s Bangalore offshore operations from the company’s Florence, Ken., office.
Collard is CEO of Sumpraxis, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based business process outsourcing company whose clients include insurance, health-care and financial-services companies. Collard directs small teams of PMs in Delhi, India and Shenyang, China.
Both are technically trained PMs; together they bring a couple of decades’ worth of offshoring experience to their jobs. While Vorholt’s and Collard’s companies are different, they share common challenges, all of which shape their world and also the lives of their globe-hopping managers.
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