Re: Any Solr consultants available??

2014-07-26 Thread Jack Krupansky

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??

2014-07-25 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
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??

2014-07-25 Thread Jack Krupansky

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??

2014-07-25 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
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??

2014-07-25 Thread Charlie Hull

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

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mobile:  +44 (0)7767 825828
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RE: Any Solr consultants available??

2014-07-24 Thread Markus Jelsma
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??

2014-07-23 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
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??

2014-07-23 Thread Walter Underwood
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??

2014-07-23 Thread Steve McKay
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??

2014-07-23 Thread Jack Krupansky
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??

2014-07-23 Thread Tri Cao

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