Vitamin Z Productions

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Hey Everyone,

Some of you know me from the Atlanta C Sharp user group. I haven't been there in a while because I have been very busy learning asp.net 2.0 and the new framework, and gathering requirements for two brand-new web applications. One is our flagship website that gets more then 10 million hits per month and generates more then enough revenue to help make our company profitable. The other project is a cross-site content management and distribution application designed to provide campaign-based content administration with an extensible user context targeting system. The data is xml heavy and xsl rich. Both of these applications are very exciting and very challenging, only senior level developers will be accepted.

The company enjoys a 25 year old brick-and-morter publication offering that makes it a very stable position. I've been here for nearly 6 years.

We've usually use staffing services to fullfill open positions but they have been sending us nothing but, forgive me for my vulgarity, crap. The resumes are embellished and sometimes blatent lies. I am a terrible interviewer and these every interview I've had has been terribly disappointing. I am extending my personal request to the many talented individuals I've met in Atlanta to step up and help us out.

I know, what does it pay? Let's just say we're ready to up the rate. In fact, we'll pay as much as the highest rate on computerjobs.com right now! Top pay for top people, what a concept?

Our goal is to find great people and convert them to full-time employment. Up until now we have offered a competitive rate because we want the salary conversion to not hurt as bad. Due to this, we've gotten, as I said above, less then qualified individuals. We're ready to bite the bullet and fork over the dough to attract ...hopefully, YOU.

I have, for along time, desired some change in the general process and atmosphere in the enterprise. Its been a slow, steady climb. That's about to change! We recently moved to a beautiful new location and are going to change corporate identity. That sort of change sparks progress. In addition, we are adoption a less rigorous, more iterative process, officially. That means less documentation and more design. More sparked communication and less beurocracy. Smaller development lifecycles and less delivery pain. I'm very excited. I wouldn't be tagging my name to this if I weren't.

Here are the core skill sets required (that's experience and expertise, not dabbling or exposure)

ASP.Net
C#
XML
XSLT
CSS
XHTML
Web Services (designing, creating, deploying and consuming)
Unit testing (NUnit or other automated test tool s and methodologies)
Iterative development process (Agile, Scrum, Xtreme, Crystal, whatever - any successful experience is extremely valuable, if you're a waterfall man, please don't apply)
Javascript
GoF Patterns for Enterprise Developement

Here are the skills that will help greatly that, if you don't have, you will

ASP.Net 2.0 including master pages, membership
the 2.0 microsoft.net framework (generics, the provider model)
WS-E
Oracle and Oracle.DataAccess
LDAP
Visual Studio 2005
Team Systems (hopefully)
cross-browser and standards compliant html/css/javascript support
AJAX
Enterprise Library

That's all I can think of for now. There's more, of course, but that is probably enough to capture the right person(s).

If you think you're good, you probably aren't, sorry, please move on. If you know you're good because you've read the stadards, you've read the articles, you've prototyped or implemented the new technologies and concepts, I'd love to hear from you. If I know you and I know you are good, that helps a lot. If not, I'll need legitimate technical references.

Feel free to email or call if you are sure you're the right person. Recruiters, I am not the hiring manager and I can't help you. Direct applicants only.

Thanks much and please let me know if you know anyone or let them know we're looking. Gracias

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1/5/2006 6:55:15 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)