When i find the right person, I will be hiring them as Manager of 
Development, ideally fulltime, working with us for the next several years, 
with an opportunity to become a key part of the management team.

Sound interesting? Send me your details and let’s see if there are some 
trial projects we can work on [on contract, full or part-time] to see if 
there is a good fit.   les.cseh@ally-business-services.com

The work:
-          develop specs with participation of developers, users and mgmt 
team
-          implement projects – plan, budget, monitor, test, communicate
-          help us transition large legacy xbase++/waa apps and environment 
to:
        o   well documented processes and data
        o   solid development and testing approach, including code review 
and automated testing. agile?
        o   Implement bug tracking and wishlist systems, and assist in 
prioritization
        o   quickly implement new business requirements
        o   lay groundwork for future development platform
            - short term: classes to use for new apps and rewrites; should 
cxp play a role? Pci compliance; mobile display considerations;
            - Medium term: use amazon aws servers for redundancy?
            - Long term: ((xbase++ or java) + sql?)
-          oversee and plan IT changes as required
-          assist with development and support as required

Environment:
-          Work from home
-          Small friendly ethical biz that is growing  (www.AsapChecks.com, 
www.Asap-Cheques.com)
-          Biz is preparing to diversify to other products and services, 
heavily utilizing online marketing, ecommerce and social media
-          Very small dev team (1 fulltime, 2 part time), and IT is 
outsourced
-          Majority of the apps were written by old school developer (me) – 
eg. very few classes, huge source files. Much to be rewritten over time.

Skills and Experience:
-          Excellent communicator (written and oral) with both tech and 
non-tech types
-          Good track record with estimating, planning and meeting deadlines 
and budgets
-          Solid xbase++, waa and html experience
-          Bonus if you have experience with ADS, Javascript and Concrete5 
CMS (and/or PHP, HTML, CSS)
-          Candidates must be ‘relaxed’, easy and fun to work with, very 
patient given our limited resources and long wishlist, understanding that 
the majority of priorities will be to assist with business and marketing 
goals of the business, and that most of the work will have to be shoehorned 
into the legacy system while we work in parallel to rewrite it

Compensation:
-          Still working on what our “champagne taste, beer budget” can 
afford, but read on ..
-          Future possibilities include:
        o   profit sharing
        o   bonuses related to performance
        o   participation in success of new products
        o   VP Systems
        o   equity

Les

Are you still looking?

On 2013/02/12 07:40 PM, Les C. Cseh wrote:
> reposting in HTML ..
> When I find the right person, I will be hiring them as Manager of
> Development, ideally fulltime, working with us for the next several
> years, with an opportunity to become a key part of the management team.
> Sound interesting? Send me your details and let’s see if there are some
> trial projects we can work on [on contract, full or part-time] to see if
> there is a good fit.   les.cseh@ally-business-services.com
> The work:
>
>   * develop specs with participation of developers, users and mgmt team
>   * implement projects – plan, budget, monitor, test, communicate
>   * help us transition large legacy xbase++/waa apps and environment
>     to:
>       o well documented processes and data
>       o solid development and testing approach, including code review
>         and automated testing. agile?
>       o Implement bug tracking and wishlist systems, and assist in
>         prioritization
>       o quickly implement new business requirements
>       o lay groundwork for future development platform
>           + short term: classes to use for new apps and rewrites; should
>             cxp play a role? Pci compliance; mobile display
>             considerations; lots more
>           + Medium term: use amazon aws servers for redundancy?
>           + Long term: ((xbase++ or java) + sql?)
>   * oversee and plan IT changes as required
>   * assist with development and support as required
>
> Environment:
>
>   * Work from home
>   * Small friendly ethical biz that is growing (www.AsapChecks.com,
>     www.Asap-Cheques.com <http://www.Asap-Cheques.com>)
>   * Biz is preparing to diversify to other products and services,
>     heavily utilizing online marketing, ecommerce and social media
>   * Very small dev team (1 fulltime, 2 part time), and IT is outsourced
>   * Majority of the apps were written by old school developer (me) – eg.
>     very few classes, huge source files. Much to be rewritten over time.
>
> Skills and Experience:
>
>   * Excellent communicator (written and oral) with both tech and
>     non-tech types
>   * Good track record with estimating, planning and meeting deadlines
>     and budgets
>   * Solid xbase++, waa and html experience
>   * Bonus if you have experience with ADS, Javascript and Concrete5 CMS
>     (and/or PHP, HTML, CSS)
>   * Candidates must be ‘relaxed’, easy and fun to work with, very
>     patient given our limited resources and long wishlist, understanding
>     that the majority of priorities will be to assist with business and
>     marketing goals of the business, and that most of the work will have
>     to be shoehorned into the legacy system while we work in parallel to
>     rewrite it
>
> Compensation:
>
>   * Still working on what our “champagne taste, beer budget” can afford,
>     but read on ..
>   * Future possibilities include:
>       o profit sharing
>       o bonuses related to performance
>       o participation in success of new products
>       o VP Systems
>       o equity
>
> Regards,
> Les