Gonna be a Possie (Pom that became an Aussie)

Who'd a thunk it,
Busy job, busy life.
Not sure I remember signing up for the first one.

Anyway - I am going to be an Aussie citizen as of Australia day, Mosman cricket oval for those who want to come and throw Lamingtons or try to get me to eat vegemite (not going to happen)
On the job fromt.......
Been fixing IIS, intra/extra nets, Oracle, Car Park software (a lot more complicated than it sounds) and dealing with SQL security across freakin Cisco firewalls and harsh VLAN rules annnnnd playing with System Centre 2012 with Macs
A consultants skillset has to be wide and varied, thats for sure.
Anyway mostly been dealing with a bunch of CarParking apps, basically a project with 5 different vendors, lots of physical and unusual devices, ticket machines, 1000+ cameras, intercom systems and parking guidance lights all running MAC only access to the network. They all interact with each other and a data Warehouse. Did I mention that a lot of these devices constantly stream and record to a SAN?
Any volunteers to take over?
I thought not.
It never ceases to amaze me how different vendors can be in their approach to their work, from one mob who weren't even going to hand over software, install instructions, build docs or just about anything to another lot who have detailed instructions, requirements docs for service accounts etc, and then they have to interact with each other, ahhh what fun, did I mention they are Australian, American and German.