About Donald
I am software programmer but generally refer to my work as a trade or craft. I have been practicing my craft for 15 years. I typically listen to problems that a non technical person is trying
to solve and then build a solution from the ground-up to solve the problem, typically in the form of a web site. I sometimes do this alone but I prefer to have another person to bounce ideas off and draw beautiful pages. I might include a few more people in the team but never more then a very small handful, even for the largest and most complex projects. All members of the team typically think of themselves as a craftsman in their respective fields.
My Tools
C#, ASP.NET, jQuery, css, and Oracle or SQL Server.
Question - How can I hire a team of software developers for $25 each?
“Programming managers have long recognized wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. But the actual measured magnitudes have astounded all of us. In one of their studies, Sackman, Erickson, and Grant were measuring performance of a group of experienced programmers. Within just this group the ratios between the best and worst performances averaged about 10:1 on productivity measurements and an amazing 5:1 on program speed and space measurements! ”
Answer - by hiring one productive and experienced developer that can produce the same output as the less productive team.
Will you work for the equivalent of $25 / hour?
Absolutely, I charge a fraction of what a team of typical programmers charge. Research by IBM, Microsoft, and Apple concluded that the best developers are generally five times as productive as the average coder. Also due to my varied experience in many companies like The Gap, Kodak, Microsoft Consulting, Continental Airlines, and SunPower, solving a variety of problems, I many already have a large codebase that I can refactor into your solution.
Skydive - retrain jump after 3 year hiatus.
What's New with Donald
ASP.NET MVC using jQuery - nice article
here by Scott Hanselman.
View my sample work
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