My name is Brian Thoman.  My title is “Technical Product Manager – WO Central”.  I  manage the technical resources and code base for our WO Central product.

The task at hand is finding developers.  Currently, WO Central consists of a team of 4 developers (+ some offshore talent) – WO Central demands more.  Pulling requested data out of 175 client databases in near real time, obeying security rules and surfacing the data through a Silverlight front-end is not a simple task.  We will talk more about the project as we go along.

What does it take to be a WO Central Developer?

You must have intimate knowledge of our toolset…

…(VS2008/C#/WCF/Silverlight 2.0/SQL2008)

We are not a component dropping team.  Are you a developer that understands why the answer to “Does boxing occur when ToString is called on a struct?” is “well… that depends – show me the struct definition”?

You must have the ability to see through complex problems…

…and solve them as simply as possible

Most users request features based on how they do their jobs now.  How good will WO Central be if we simply imitate?  We need problem solvers who can see through the request and solve the problem in a way that addresses their need and presents a better way of accomplishing the same task.

How do we find developers that can do this? 

We’re still working on it.

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