Project info for DougNassaurWatch

"SCO is right.
IBM is trying to steal the code under the
cloak of open source," said Douglas Nassaur,
president and CEO of True North Technology, a
Sun Microsystems partner based in Alpharetta, Ga.
"IBM supports open source and hopes SCO
gets hijacked so they can steal it. At that point,
IBM won't need the open-source
community or SCO because they'll have the code."

I must say I was VERY
surprised to find out he landed some
pretty important management/technical positions (he
was in his early 20's when I met him,
and I don't think he even took any college-level
classes), and was also intrigued by how
many piles of flaming wreckage he appears to have
left in his path. Not surprised, though. I
could tell you many 'Doug' stories that would amaze
but probably not surprise you.

I use to work for Doug at
ETRADE. I sometimes go out and search
for his name to see what kind of damage he is doing
and where.

7
October 2002 Heard from an individual who had
some dealings with Doug, who was working
for a large soft-drink firm in Atlanta, and
subsequently moved to fire Doug for breach of
contract. Terms like "false statements" (he lied
about having a degree, for instance),
"violation of NDA" and "intimidation" were involved.

Pete D. writes in with this story, which he asked be
published here:

Doug Nassaur joined Holiday Inn Corporation to manage
the distributed systems group (about 60
people) around September 1997. At the time I was
pushing 4 years there as a Developer turned
DBA and I was running the Development and 3rd level
Support Operations Dept which was the group
supporting all 3000+ hotels. Doug Nassaur was hired by
Stan Ford after Stan was promoted to
Sr. Director. Stan was a very nice man who had 7
children but did not know anything about
computer systems, for he was a people person. He hired
Doug based solely on their private
interview against by judgment and advice to not hire
him.

When Doug came in, you would have thought he was
elected president of the United States, for he
came in like some King and listened to no one who knew
the systems and operations, and within 2
weeks he had already quickly alienated both management,
other supporting groups, and all his new
direct reports felt like they were working for an
incompetent, and I mean 98% of them. He completely
destroyed all systems and operations that were working
and did nothing to improve systems and
operations that needed work. He reassigned almost
everyone to another position including me and
then brought in two additional people to be managers
from his previous job, who knew nothing
about the business, operations, or computer systems.
There was a mass exodus of very talented
employees including me and within about 5 months, it was
finally obvious to management the
problem was Doug, so they fired him in a nasty
confrontation. They then demoted Stan Ford
several levels for hiring him and causing infrastructure
damage that would take years to
correct.

I uncloaked his incompetence in less than 3 weeks and
realized he was a hollow man with no
character or managerial knowledge nor did he have any
basic common sense about computer systems
or people. He was one of those guys that learned a few
buzzwords like "stakeholders", and some
acronyms, but had no substance or formal education. He
might have been better as a stand up
comedian. He was also one of those crazy Sun Unix guys
that was more infatuated with the
hardware like some child instead of what the technology
does for the company. He had severe
platform bias, unlike intelligent people there with a
successful track record that knew
certain equipment fits the job it is supposed to do. He
attempted to convert all Windows systems
to Unix immediately which the company had implemented
and immediately went out and purchased
unnecessary Sun equipment (and we know what Sun
equipment cost back then).

I was very passionate about my work and I had worked
hard there only to see it all torn down in
a few short weeks. What surprises me the most is the
jobs at other companies Doug was able to
acquire later through his succession of lies, and more,
the naïve people that did not simply
check his background. Well, Doug, Google has your
number now, and hopefully, this will help
some Manager or Bank somewhere that is about to hire him
or give him money, and thus make the
mistake of his life and career!!

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