So, in business terms "a recent budget shortfall has resulted in a reduction of human capital" at my workplace. My role with the school was a cross between a project manager and server administration. We all work the helpdesk, but my focus was finding new systems (Phone systems, wireless technologies, virtualization platforms, etc.), or stabilizing existing ones, for the long term.
I have 30 days remaining with the school, but after that they want to hire me as a consultant to continue to support the projects that I have implemented, as well as continue to work on new projects. I have never really done any consulting work for an organization before (I have been mostly involved in residential work), so I figured i'd ask here to see what you guys think is a fair price, based on the fees that you charge or have been charged in the past.
They are looking for a yearly support contract for the following:
I have also been acting as a purchasing agent for them, picking up surplus equipment from sources that don't fit well with their accounting system. While I worked there, I did not charge them any fee for this. What is a typical markup for a purchasing agent?
Keep in mind that this is for a public school in a rural area (average yearly income for a person is ~$30k, average income for IT is ~$50k). I am also not terribly experienced. I have about 3 years of relevant work experience, a B.S in Computer Information Systems (covered the business aspects and A+/Network+/Server Administration) and a few years of experience in both hardware and software development. I do not have any certifications.
Also, i'm not asking anyone to spend the time to write up a quote or anything, just trying to provide as much information as possible.
I have 30 days remaining with the school, but after that they want to hire me as a consultant to continue to support the projects that I have implemented, as well as continue to work on new projects. I have never really done any consulting work for an organization before (I have been mostly involved in residential work), so I figured i'd ask here to see what you guys think is a fair price, based on the fees that you charge or have been charged in the past.
They are looking for a yearly support contract for the following:
- A CPanel host (~50 accounts, 8 critical), with two CPanel DNS servers
- 4 websites running the Joomla CMS
- An Asterisk based phone system (5 buildings, 150 phones total, plus intercom/paging)
- VMWare VSphere cluster, 2 nodes (16 cores each), and one iSCSI storage array
- Citrix XenServer cluster, 2 nodes (16 cores each), and one iSCSI storage array
- Ubiquiti UniFi wireless deployment, 15 devices, 1 controller
- Spam Email filtering device (currently looking at open source solutions) for ~1000 email accounts
- IP Camera controller and DVR, 36 cameras.
I have also been acting as a purchasing agent for them, picking up surplus equipment from sources that don't fit well with their accounting system. While I worked there, I did not charge them any fee for this. What is a typical markup for a purchasing agent?
Keep in mind that this is for a public school in a rural area (average yearly income for a person is ~$30k, average income for IT is ~$50k). I am also not terribly experienced. I have about 3 years of relevant work experience, a B.S in Computer Information Systems (covered the business aspects and A+/Network+/Server Administration) and a few years of experience in both hardware and software development. I do not have any certifications.
Also, i'm not asking anyone to spend the time to write up a quote or anything, just trying to provide as much information as possible.