Abby Team - We are Stubborn

    SelectQuote has managed to take what in some circumstances is a weakness, and make it strength.  When it comes to saying no to threatening children, stubbornness is called taking the principled stand.  Maki and I havee had our differences, but sometimes we call each other 'Abby Team' as we both want the best for our daughter.
    As soon as I explained SelectQuote's similarities to Omu Shinrikyo to her, Maki was behind this one hundred percent.  A pathetic preference to peace at all costs, unwillingness to take a stand, a desire to let others do the fighting, these traits led to the deadly Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway.
    It is not lost on me that the fake accounts were created in a futile attempt to drive a wedge between Maki and I even as this site hits new records.  I have now seen nearly 500 views in a single day.  This comes even as life insurance is in the slow season, and searches should be down.  Like the boa constrictor, we are tightening our coils as the prey exhales.
    Also, when Director Ian Kirwan asked why I thought Michelle Tan was the culprit behind the threats, he suggested that I really meant Maki!  Both the timing and the tactics are mighty suspicious, and we can see who clearly stands to gain by dishonesty as the noose tightens.

They Wish They Were Tom Dunham

    In a stunning admission of the inferiority of their position, my detractors have resorted to creating fake social media accounts in my name.  This occurred over the weekend, I noticed when looking at who searched my LinkedIn account.  They then post inane drivel and understate my work experience.  They also greatly understate work experience.  This Klout comparison between me (SelectQuote Review, in orange) and the fake accounts says it all:

Average Klout is 20 and the scale is non-linear.  Each additional point is harder to achieve.

    Is SelectQuote afraid?  Can't they make their stupid accusations in their own name?  Who else would it be?  It seems like my posts are hitting a little to close to home.  Someone got scared, too scared to think.  This is just plain dumb, anyone can quickly see who has the real profile.  Below are more screenshots of this amateurish attempt to discredit me.  For comparison my Klout profile links to most of my social media accounts. 

It Takes a Team to Replace Tom Dunham

Tom Dunham

    In the follow-up to my last post, I'd like to explore how many people exactly it is necessary for SelectQuote to use, in order to do some of the work I did.   Keep in mind that maintainability metrics such as Cyclomatic Complexity were generated on all my Java builds, I specifically targeted ease of code maintenance when programming.  Any programmer should be able to maintain my code, it's just the volume of work I did overwhelms them.
    First there are the obvious two the phone system administrator, Ken Lee, and Serguei Zakhartchenko architect/programmer that took over my work on the telephony side of the agent desktop. This does not cover all the Java side of what I did.  As we see, however, the spouses of IT Director Kirwan and dim-witted programmer Michelle Tan can be used in this capacity.

    Jong Lee has been brought in to help his lazy wife with the conversion of qvconvert.  This task would've fallen to me. However, this still isn't taking a chunk out of my server-side web and telephony Java work, or any of the business-to-business work that I did.  Well Director Ian Kirwan's wife May Yun Chu can handle this.  Maybe.  Some of it at least.  I guess this would be why web development looks to no longer be done in Java.  I think they probably outsourced this, after all there was only one other senior developer, Andrei Kolesnik. 
    Well, that is quite a cast of characters, and I note that SelectQuote did not meet their expansion targets for Jacksonville back in 2011.  Technology likely had a lot to do with that.  I was offered a pretty good hourly rate to fix my build machine back then, I had made major scalability improvements for the agent desktop.  SelectQuote couldn't build from that base without my build machine, as everyone else's build was stuck back on Visual Studio 6 (which came out in the 90s), and my code would not build on their machine.  Well, Serguei probably has it under control by now, but I think I've sufficiently demonstrated that I'm an army of one.
   

Tom Dunham Gets It Done

Tom Dunham

     Prospective employers and clients, take note.  This blog stands as a testament of what I can do for you, in addition to my strong technical skill set.  Let's face it, if you build a technical masterpiece, but can't get an audience, no one cares.  In five months I took this blog from nothing to 1000 views a week. No mean feat, considering the chicken or the egg problem posed by search engines.
    How can people link to good content, if it can't be found?  I will go into detail below as to how I solved this problem.  First, I know that you wish to know how a highly successful career of eight years at SelectQuote came to an end.
    They threatened my little girl.  Sounds crazy?  Heck, I thought so, too.  Further digging, however, and I've got them cold.  Should this really surprise us?  Child predators often find work where they have access to kids.  Of course they don't appear to be predators with a cursory look, or else we would have never let them get that close to kids!
    As you can see, I've had many varied employers.  A school district, a city, an Assembly of God, a steel mill, a chemical plant, two IT powerhouses, a dot com start-up, and the creators of the best enterprise internal logistics application.  No one threatened my daughter at any of those places.  The problem clearly is SelectQuote.
   Consider as well that a Director two levels above me wanted me gone to get his spouse contracts, he had an accomplice at my level for the same reason, they still had to resort to a dirty cop's fabricated testimony to cause me to use all my vacation, yet this wasn't enough.  In fact, I got a $24,000 raise after that nightmare year, my value was still that clear.  They had to bait me with the threats to my daughter to finally get me out.
    If there was ever a question as to my value once I learn an employer's business, my enemies at SelectQuote removed it.  I so clearly bring great value to my employer, you must construct a far reaching Machiavellian conspiracy if you want me gone.  If I were not head and shoulders above the rest, I could have just been fired.  But don't take my word for it:

Performance 2007 2009 by Tom Dunham

Michelle Tan's Husband Rakes in Dirty Money

Click to zoom - Jong's work

   From her property records, the Jong Lee who is getting SelectQuote money now that I'm gone is none other than Michelle Tan's husband.  Not the same last name, so I did not catch this right away. Property records show them both on the house in Pleasanton.  Similarly, we find that they are both on the property in Richmond/San Pablo, and they purchased property in San Bruno before then.  They added yet another home in Pleasanton not long after my termination.
    She lied about the events surrounding my termination, and we have every reason to believe that it was her who made the threats on Abby's life.  She got her husband a job through threats, dishonesty, and skillfully playing the victim.  GitHub showed Jong and Michelle working on xconvert at https://github.com/mtan/xconvert.
    This project has now (first noticed 12/31/2012) been taken down or made private.  They tried to hide the evidence, but I have them cold, just click on the screenshot.  Shortly after this blog began, Jong Lee was no longer committing on this project.

Term Life Insurance Guest Blogging

    Competitors of SelectQuote, I have explained the problem, you are the solution.  I am now accepting guest blog entries from any competitor of SelectQuote Insurance Services.  Entries will be published at my discretion, at the time of my choosing.  This offer is absolutely free.  You may link back to your web properties, these links will be do follow.  Thus gaining you precious Google link juice.  The following disclaimer will accompany your post:

Your company does not necessarily agree with SelectQuote Review's recounting of events. 

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