Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Plenty of interesting ideas. Another angle is helping companies set up a "center of excellence" for Solr in their organization. Whether the center is dedicated in-house staff or an outside vendor contract, the concept is still the same - giving people a clear and direct place to go to get immediate, high-value support and guidance. A rich guy's version of this mailing list! -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 9:17 PM To: solr-user Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available?? On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it? Well, I would target two groups: *) Startups that just realized they need search *) People who want to become consultants and want speed track to that ("already in the process" can take quite a while). For Startups, I would do a weeklong version of what I did with my one-day Solr Masterclass. *) Bring your own data, we teach you very specific process of development-oriented setup (e.g. start from https://github.com/arafalov/simplest-solr-config/blob/master/simplest-solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml , teach rapid iterations, ways to affect data in Solr such as URP, Custom Search Components, etc). *) Then teach debugging. *) Then SolrCloud. *) Then maybe touch on BigData as many SAAS startups will hit that problem *) Then going into production. *) Then, send them out with a (paid-for and/or subscription) dedicated discussion group where the mentor would continue answering questions as they bubble up. etc. *) And more For consultants: *) you teach them to understand which problems Solr is good for *) you teach them how to explain Solr to others. *) Teach them (or build for them) great Solr demos. *) Give them unsolved-but-tractable project and assist them in making those happen (e.g. build a Solr-backed real solr-consultants website, testing Solr clients with latest Solr, testing upstream integration, creating Solr feature demos for 3rd party products that have Solr inside, etc) *) Build them environments to quickly test their ideas, skills, etc. *) Give them tools and tricks to quickly build online identity around Solr (blogging tips, link to their articles to build SEO, GitHub repos, etc) *) Build a network where consultants can pass work to each other based on geography *) Get preferential deals with commercial Solr components suppliers, so the consultants get things like UI components at reduced price or extended trials or whatever *) Dedicated discussion group *) If they are in the solr-consultants directory, charge them subscription fees but give them a dedicated discussion group where they can talk but also ask for particular features (e.g. better examples, demo repos, language support, deals, commonly useful components like the split/join filters, etc). Use those as projects to drive next batch of developers. *) Reach out to startup community and offer discounted/apprenticeship model to access those newly graduated consultants. *) Possibly provide things like USA corporation umbrella to bring - say - a Philipino consultant to USA/UK for 3 months to train and then let them go back home to establish the business. *) And, again, a lot more And, of course, gamify the whole lot wherever possible to drive the speed of adoption :-) Time is money. Many of the things above exist for Solr, but they are all over the web, often rotting after initial release due to lack of visibility, etc. Other things are missing documentation, etc. Many of the other things exist (e.g. consultant directories) but they are not Solr specific. Frankly, many of the things that do exist have terrible search, fixing that alone would be competitive beyond Solr. There is value in building a happy singing YCombinator-style path. Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr > consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the > process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it? Well, I would target two groups: *) Startups that just realized they need search *) People who want to become consultants and want speed track to that ("already in the process" can take quite a while). For Startups, I would do a weeklong version of what I did with my one-day Solr Masterclass. *) Bring your own data, we teach you very specific process of development-oriented setup (e.g. start from https://github.com/arafalov/simplest-solr-config/blob/master/simplest-solr/collection1/conf/schema.xml , teach rapid iterations, ways to affect data in Solr such as URP, Custom Search Components, etc). *) Then teach debugging. *) Then SolrCloud. *) Then maybe touch on BigData as many SAAS startups will hit that problem *) Then going into production. *) Then, send them out with a (paid-for and/or subscription) dedicated discussion group where the mentor would continue answering questions as they bubble up. etc. *) And more For consultants: *) you teach them to understand which problems Solr is good for *) you teach them how to explain Solr to others. *) Teach them (or build for them) great Solr demos. *) Give them unsolved-but-tractable project and assist them in making those happen (e.g. build a Solr-backed real solr-consultants website, testing Solr clients with latest Solr, testing upstream integration, creating Solr feature demos for 3rd party products that have Solr inside, etc) *) Build them environments to quickly test their ideas, skills, etc. *) Give them tools and tricks to quickly build online identity around Solr (blogging tips, link to their articles to build SEO, GitHub repos, etc) *) Build a network where consultants can pass work to each other based on geography *) Get preferential deals with commercial Solr components suppliers, so the consultants get things like UI components at reduced price or extended trials or whatever *) Dedicated discussion group *) If they are in the solr-consultants directory, charge them subscription fees but give them a dedicated discussion group where they can talk but also ask for particular features (e.g. better examples, demo repos, language support, deals, commonly useful components like the split/join filters, etc). Use those as projects to drive next batch of developers. *) Reach out to startup community and offer discounted/apprenticeship model to access those newly graduated consultants. *) Possibly provide things like USA corporation umbrella to bring - say - a Philipino consultant to USA/UK for 3 months to train and then let them go back home to establish the business. *) And, again, a lot more And, of course, gamify the whole lot wherever possible to drive the speed of adoption :-) Time is money. Many of the things above exist for Solr, but they are all over the web, often rotting after initial release due to lack of visibility, etc. Other things are missing documentation, etc. Many of the other things exist (e.g. consultant directories) but they are not Solr specific. Frankly, many of the things that do exist have terrible search, fixing that alone would be competitive beyond Solr. There is value in building a happy singing YCombinator-style path. Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Any or all of the above, and more. OTOH, how many people are there out there who want to become Solr consultants, but aren't already either doing it or at least already in the process of coming up to speed or maybe just not cut out for it? But then there are the kids in school. Maybe we need to get more professors interested in Solr (or do they prefer Elasticsearch?!) and assigning projects? And maybe the problem is that a lot of the need is in departments outside of CS, but Solr (the people with actual data needs) is just too... "difficult"... for a lot of non-CS students to "casually pick up". I sense the difficulty is that Solr is too much of a complex "toolkit" rather than a packaged product. For example, the recent inquiry related to queries for compound and split terms - it's not automatic and OOB for Solr, and without an obvious and simple solution. Lots of things are like that in Solr. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 4:52 AM To: solr-user Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available?? Well, if we do it in England, we could hire out a castle, I bet. :-) I am flexible on my "holiday" locations. And probably easier to do the first one in English. We can continue this on direct email, on the LinkedIn group (perfect place probably) and/or on the margins of the Solr Revolution. Target next spring/summer for the week-long event, work backwards from there. Talk to http://www.techstars.com/program/locations/london/ to specifically target the startups, etc Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Charlie Hull wrote: On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value. We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr consultants, and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good too :) I think the skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source search world. Charlie
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Well, if we do it in England, we could hire out a castle, I bet. :-) I am flexible on my "holiday" locations. And probably easier to do the first one in English. We can continue this on direct email, on the LinkedIn group (perfect place probably) and/or on the margins of the Solr Revolution. Target next spring/summer for the week-long event, work backwards from there. Talk to http://www.techstars.com/program/locations/london/ to specifically target the startups, etc Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Charlie Hull wrote: > On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky >> wrote: >>> All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. >> >> Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training >> hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train >> consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value. > > We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr consultants, > and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good too :) I think the > skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source search world. > > Charlie
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
On 24/07/2014 01:54, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value. Do it somewhere on the beach or in the mountains, etc. If somebody organizes it, I would probably even be interested to teaching the first (newbie) part. And the graduation project would a be a solr-consutants.com website to make it easier to find those same consultants later. :-) Regards, Alex. P.s. Last issue of my newsletter had "Solr big ideas". The one above was not in it, but it is - I believe - also viable. Contact me if it catches your fancy for more detailed brainstorming and notes sharing. We're definitely interested in the idea of 'growing' more Solr consultants, and eventually committers. Beaches and mountains are good too :) I think the skill shortage is a huge problem for the open source search world. Charlie Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 -- Charlie Hull Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 web: www.flax.co.uk
RE: Any Solr consultants available??
Hahaha thanks wunder, made me laugh! -Original message- > From:Walter Underwood > Sent: Thursday 24th July 2014 2:07 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available?? > > When I see job postings like this, I have to assume they were written by > people who really don’t understand the problem and have never met people with > the various skills they are asking for. They are not going to find one person > who does all this. > > This is an opening for zebra unicorn that walks on water. At best, they’ll > get a one-horned goat with painted stripes on a life raft. They need to talk > to some people, make multiple realistic openings, and expect to grow some of > their own expertise. > > I got an email like this from Goldman Sachs this morning. > > “... a Senior Application Architect/Developer and DevOps Engineer for a major > company initiative. In addition to an effort to build a new cloud > infrastructure from the ground up, they are beginning a number of company > projects in the areas of cloud-based open source search, Machine Learning/AI, > Big Data, Predictive Analytics & Low-Latency Trading Algorithm Development.” > > Good luck, fellas. > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ > > > On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > > > Yeah, I saw that, which is why I suggested not being too picky about > > specific requirements. If you have at least two or three years of solid > > Solr experience, that would make you at least worth looking at. > > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > > > From: Tri Cao > > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:57 PM > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Cc: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available?? > > > > Well, it's kind of hard to find a person if the requirement is "10 years' > > experience with Solr" given that Solr was created in 2004. > > > > On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Jack Krupansky > > wrote: > > > > > > I occasionally get pinged by recruiters looking for Solr application > > developers... here’s the latest. If you are interested, either contact > > Jessica directly or reply to me and I’ll forward your reply. > > > > Even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements... they are having > > trouble finding... anyone. All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. > > > > Thanks. > > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > > > From: Jessica Feigin > > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:36 PM > > To: 'Jack Krupansky' > > Subject: Thank you! > > > > Hi Jack, > > > > > > > > Thanks for your assistance, below is the Solr Consultant job description: > > > > > > > > Our client, a hospitality Fortune 500 company are looking to update their > > platform to make accessing information easier for the franchisees. This is > > the first phase of the project which will take a few years. They want a > > hands on Solr consultant who has ideally worked in the search space. As you > > can imagine the company culture is great, everyone is really friendly and > > there is also an option to become permanent. They are looking for: > > > > > > > > - 10+ years’ experience with Solr (Apache Lucene), HTML, XML, Java, > > Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL > > > > - 5+ years’ experience implementing Solr builds of indexes, shards, and > > refined searches across semi-structured data sets to include architectural > > scaling > > > > - Experience in developing a re-usable framework to support web site > > search; implement rich web site search, including the incorporation of > > metadata. > > > > - Experienced in development using Java, Oracle, RedHat, Perl, shell, and > > clustering > > > > - A strong understanding of Data analytics, algorithms, and large data > > structures > > > > - Experienced in architectural design and resource planning for scaling > > Solr/Lucene capabilities. > > > > - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jessica Feigin > > Technical Recruiter > > > > Technology Resource Management > > 30 Vreeland Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932 > > Phone 973-377-0040 x 415, Fax 973-377-7064 > > Email: jess...@trmconsulting.com > > > > Web site: www.trmconsulting.com > > > > LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafeigin > > > > > >
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. Sounds like an opportunity for somebody to put together a training hacker camp, similar to https://hackerbeach.org/ . Cross-train consultants in Solr, immediately increase their value. Do it somewhere on the beach or in the mountains, etc. If somebody organizes it, I would probably even be interested to teaching the first (newbie) part. And the graduation project would a be a solr-consutants.com website to make it easier to find those same consultants later. :-) Regards, Alex. P.s. Last issue of my newsletter had "Solr big ideas". The one above was not in it, but it is - I believe - also viable. Contact me if it catches your fancy for more detailed brainstorming and notes sharing. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
When I see job postings like this, I have to assume they were written by people who really don’t understand the problem and have never met people with the various skills they are asking for. They are not going to find one person who does all this. This is an opening for zebra unicorn that walks on water. At best, they’ll get a one-horned goat with painted stripes on a life raft. They need to talk to some people, make multiple realistic openings, and expect to grow some of their own expertise. I got an email like this from Goldman Sachs this morning. “... a Senior Application Architect/Developer and DevOps Engineer for a major company initiative. In addition to an effort to build a new cloud infrastructure from the ground up, they are beginning a number of company projects in the areas of cloud-based open source search, Machine Learning/AI, Big Data, Predictive Analytics & Low-Latency Trading Algorithm Development.” Good luck, fellas. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > Yeah, I saw that, which is why I suggested not being too picky about specific > requirements. If you have at least two or three years of solid Solr > experience, that would make you at least worth looking at. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > From: Tri Cao > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:57 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Cc: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available?? > > Well, it's kind of hard to find a person if the requirement is "10 years' > experience with Solr" given that Solr was created in 2004. > > On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > > > I occasionally get pinged by recruiters looking for Solr application > developers... here’s the latest. If you are interested, either contact > Jessica directly or reply to me and I’ll forward your reply. > > Even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements... they are having > trouble finding... anyone. All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. > > Thanks. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > From: Jessica Feigin > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:36 PM > To: 'Jack Krupansky' > Subject: Thank you! > > Hi Jack, > > > > Thanks for your assistance, below is the Solr Consultant job description: > > > > Our client, a hospitality Fortune 500 company are looking to update their > platform to make accessing information easier for the franchisees. This is > the first phase of the project which will take a few years. They want a hands > on Solr consultant who has ideally worked in the search space. As you can > imagine the company culture is great, everyone is really friendly and there > is also an option to become permanent. They are looking for: > > > > - 10+ years’ experience with Solr (Apache Lucene), HTML, XML, Java, Tomcat, > JBoss, MySQL > > - 5+ years’ experience implementing Solr builds of indexes, shards, and > refined searches across semi-structured data sets to include architectural > scaling > > - Experience in developing a re-usable framework to support web site search; > implement rich web site search, including the incorporation of metadata. > > - Experienced in development using Java, Oracle, RedHat, Perl, shell, and > clustering > > - A strong understanding of Data analytics, algorithms, and large data > structures > > - Experienced in architectural design and resource planning for scaling > Solr/Lucene capabilities. > > - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. > > > > > > > > > > Jessica Feigin > Technical Recruiter > > Technology Resource Management > 30 Vreeland Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932 > Phone 973-377-0040 x 415, Fax 973-377-7064 > Email: jess...@trmconsulting.com > > Web site: www.trmconsulting.com > > LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafeigin > >
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Perhaps the requirement means a total of 10 years of experience spread across Solr, HTML, XML, Java, Tomcat, JBoss, and MySQL. This doesn't seem likely, but it is satisfiable, so if we proceed on the assumption that a job posting doesn't contain unsatisfiable requirements then it's more reasonable than a naive interpretation. There exists the possibility of a satisfiable interpretation which is more intuitively appealing, and IMO this warrants further investigation. > On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Tri Cao wrote: > > Well, it's kind of hard to find a person if the requirement is "10 years' > experience with Solr" given that Solr was created in 2004. > >> On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: >> > >> I occasionally get pinged by recruiters looking for Solr application >> developers... here’s the latest. If you are interested, either contact >> Jessica directly or reply to me and I’ll forward your reply. >> >> Even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements... they are having >> trouble finding... anyone. All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- Jack Krupansky >> >> From: Jessica Feigin >> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:36 PM >> To: 'Jack Krupansky' >> Subject: Thank you! >> >> Hi Jack, >> >> >> >> Thanks for your assistance, below is the Solr Consultant job description: >> >> >> >> Our client, a hospitality Fortune 500 company are looking to update their >> platform to make accessing information easier for the franchisees. This is >> the first phase of the project which will take a few years. They want a >> hands on Solr consultant who has ideally worked in the search space. As you >> can imagine the company culture is great, everyone is really friendly and >> there is also an option to become permanent. They are looking for: >> >> >> >> - 10+ years’ experience with Solr (Apache Lucene), HTML, XML, Java, Tomcat, >> JBoss, MySQL >> >> - 5+ years’ experience implementing Solr builds of indexes, shards, and >> refined searches across semi-structured data sets to include architectural >> scaling >> >> - Experience in developing a re-usable framework to support web site search; >> implement rich web site search, including the incorporation of metadata. >> >> - Experienced in development using Java, Oracle, RedHat, Perl, shell, and >> clustering >> >> - A strong understanding of Data analytics, algorithms, and large data >> structures >> >> - Experienced in architectural design and resource planning for scaling >> Solr/Lucene capabilities. >> >> - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jessica Feigin >> Technical Recruiter >> >> Technology Resource Management >> 30 Vreeland Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932 >> Phone 973-377-0040 x 415, Fax 973-377-7064 >> Email: jess...@trmconsulting.com >> >> Web site: www.trmconsulting.com >> >> LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafeigin >> >>
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Yeah, I saw that, which is why I suggested not being too picky about specific requirements. If you have at least two or three years of solid Solr experience, that would make you at least worth looking at. -- Jack Krupansky From: Tri Cao Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:57 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Any Solr consultants available?? Well, it's kind of hard to find a person if the requirement is "10 years' experience with Solr" given that Solr was created in 2004. On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: I occasionally get pinged by recruiters looking for Solr application developers... here’s the latest. If you are interested, either contact Jessica directly or reply to me and I’ll forward your reply. Even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements... they are having trouble finding... anyone. All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. Thanks. -- Jack Krupansky From: Jessica Feigin Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:36 PM To: 'Jack Krupansky' Subject: Thank you! Hi Jack, Thanks for your assistance, below is the Solr Consultant job description: Our client, a hospitality Fortune 500 company are looking to update their platform to make accessing information easier for the franchisees. This is the first phase of the project which will take a few years. They want a hands on Solr consultant who has ideally worked in the search space. As you can imagine the company culture is great, everyone is really friendly and there is also an option to become permanent. They are looking for: - 10+ years’ experience with Solr (Apache Lucene), HTML, XML, Java, Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL - 5+ years’ experience implementing Solr builds of indexes, shards, and refined searches across semi-structured data sets to include architectural scaling - Experience in developing a re-usable framework to support web site search; implement rich web site search, including the incorporation of metadata. - Experienced in development using Java, Oracle, RedHat, Perl, shell, and clustering - A strong understanding of Data analytics, algorithms, and large data structures - Experienced in architectural design and resource planning for scaling Solr/Lucene capabilities. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Jessica Feigin Technical Recruiter Technology Resource Management 30 Vreeland Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932 Phone 973-377-0040 x 415, Fax 973-377-7064 Email: jess...@trmconsulting.com Web site: www.trmconsulting.com LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafeigin
Re: Any Solr consultants available??
Well, it's kind of hard to find a person if the requirement is "10 years' experience with Solr" given that Solr was created in 2004. On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: I occasionally get pinged by recruiters looking for Solr application developers... here’s the latest. If you are interested, either contact Jessica directly or reply to me and I’ll forward your reply. Even if you don’t strictly meet all the requirements... they are having trouble finding... anyone. All the great Solr guys I know are quite busy. Thanks. -- Jack Krupansky From: Jessica Feigin Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:36 PM To: 'Jack Krupansky' Subject: Thank you! Hi Jack, Thanks for your assistance, below is the Solr Consultant job description: Our client, a hospitality Fortune 500 company are looking to update their platform to make accessing information easier for the franchisees. This is the first phase of the project which will take a few years. They want a hands on Solr consultant who has ideally worked in the search space. As you can imagine the company culture is great, everyone is really friendly and there is also an option to become permanent. They are looking for: - 10+ years’ experience with Solr (Apache Lucene), HTML, XML, Java, Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL - 5+ years’ experience implementing Solr builds of indexes, shards, and refined searches across semi-structured data sets to include architectural scaling - Experience in developing a re-usable framework to support web site search; implement rich web site search, including the incorporation of metadata. - Experienced in development using Java, Oracle, RedHat, Perl, shell, and clustering - A strong understanding of Data analytics, algorithms, and large data structures - Experienced in architectural design and resource planning for scaling Solr/Lucene capabilities. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Jessica Feigin Technical Recruiter Technology Resource Management 30 Vreeland Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932 Phone 973-377-0040 x 415, Fax 973-377-7064 Email: jess...@trmconsulting.com Web site: www.trmconsulting.com LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafeigin