VikingAsia Consulting

helping you recover more value from your network investment

Who we are:

       Bill Schell and associates are (mostly) ex-Motorolans who spent most of their professional lives designing, specifying, purchasing, installing, configuring and operating high-performance, high-availability TCP/IP based networks for engineering computing environments (like IC design and Software Development), in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

We specialize in both designing and building new implementations, as well as 'tuning-up' your existing LAN/WAN environment to get more from less (more productivity from existing equipment & network architectures).

What we do:  There are typically three areas where we find we can help you and or your business:

Training:
on-site and/or web-based (CBT) on a variety of subjects - professionally presented in person or purchased 'package' training ensembles

Audit:
information security and intellectual property protection audits, training, preparedness and self-audit processes, procedures, tools, techniques, philosophies & logic.


Network Design:
develop design and implementation plans for Local, Metropolitan and Wide Area Networks.

All networks should be designed, implemented and supported to achieve:



Our 'Signature Activity' - something we call the "ANAR" - which means "Annual Network Architecture Review" - a regular, rigourous review of your computer(s) and the  network-architecture that connects them together, to answer the one single-basic-question:

IS my computer network architecture valid for my business-model today, and will it be so in the future (weeks  / months / years)?

click here to learn more about an ANAR


What we Do Not Do:

We do not sell hardware, (either computers or networking equipment) nor software.  Basically we don' t have an 'axe to grind' in our recommendations to you or your organization.

What we do, more than anything, is to give you the benefit of our background, experience, training and wisdom, and then let you make a more informed decision about your computer(s) and networking environment.


How we work and how we charge:

Our 'normal' work-day is from 09:00 until 16:00, which we bill as an 8 hour day - some of that 8th hour is travel-time and some of it is documentation preparation time.  We normally eat lunch on-the-fly.


We normally drive to the work-site if it is within the south-Florida area (south of a line between Jacksonville to Cedar Key).  If we drive to your site (if it is within the south-Florida area) then our travel-costs are covered within the 'first' rates items listed below.  If we are required to stay over-night, then hotels and meals, air-travel and other such incidentals are charged at cost plus 12%, in addition to our labor rates, quoted below.

Less than one day's work (10 hours work plus travel or less) we charge by the hour, and only a phone-call is required to initiate a job. Additionally; for casual / less than a day's work - payment is required at the time the work is complete via either cash and/or US$ check, unless prior arrangements have been made.

rates: 1st hour: $165 - each additional hour - $125

More than a one-day-job; we require a signed / verified 'work request agreement', which is a one-page contract, that we can send to you, via e-mail, upon request.

rates:        1st day  $1,200;     each additional day - $1,000

work accomplished includes, at no additional cost (but prepared & transmitted on billable time):
For further information: e-mail to: Bill Schell - bill@vikingasia.org and/or telephone us at: +1 772 485 9768.

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