Freelance Software Architect
“we help where others cannot”
(Swiss Luftwaffe’s motto)
I can help your business as your trusted IT specialist. To see my previous experience, please have a look at my resume. I offer multiple consulting packages, so you can find the one that fits your needs:
Expert Advice & Consulting
Sometimes you need a solution explored, but you don’t have the time.
Sometimes you need a fresh eye to look at something.
Sometimes you need advice on planning new systems. Exploring your options.
Sometimes you need the right answers, sometimes you need the right questions.
It this the right solution for me?
This package is recommended when you need to regularly consult on your enterprise’s technology endeavours, or when you have systems that need regular tuning or tinkering. Basically, I am your technology concierge (or, if you want, your technology consigliere :) )
What’s included?
- Expert advice, executive overview or research of any technology, in relation to your business.
- Programming work and advice on your systems and/or websites.
- Comparing solutions or suppliers. Finding the hidden costs.
- Recommendations, inputs and suggestions, specifically for your business.
- Expert opinion about any technologies I know.
- Security advice, or audit, as needed.
- “Translation” between business and techie people.
- Support for your technology team.
- Next-day-at-the-latest response time over email, or availability on IM (skype, etc).
- The safe feeling that you have a specialist on your team.
Legacy Systems & Damage Control
Sometimes you need a change in a legacy system that no one dares to touch anymore.
Sometimes you need bridges between incompatible products, maybe from different vendors.
Sometimes you need someone to finish a job someone else abandoned.
Sometimes you need a security audit, or data to be extracted.
What’s included?
It this the right solution for me?
This package is recommended when you have one specific problem (or a few problems) that needs to be addressed as soon as possible.
What’s included?
- You give me access to the systems that need to be worked on, and I’ll fix them.
How does it work?
- You give me permissions to the systems involved.
- I report back to you as soon as possible, but always within the first half day.
- I present you with the facts, the findings and the options, and you decide how to proceed.
- If no solution at all can be found to your problem, then you get a 50% refund.
Project Management
Sometimes you need an experienced team leader. Or a team.
Sometimes you need tailor-made software that fits like a bespoke suit.
Sometimes you need an IT guy who also understands your business concerns.
Sometimes you need something cheaper or faster than the existing solutions.
It this the right solution for me?
This package is recommended when you need to have the efforts of several people (programmers, designers, testers, seo experts, system administrators, etc) orchestrated towards a specific outcome; especially if you only wish to be involved with the project at the executive level, and let somebody else deal with the details.
Projects usually consist of a “planning” and a “development” phase.
During the planning phase, this package includes:
- Communications with the client over email or IM (skype, etc)
- Writing your specifications
- Creating mock-up screens, use cases or database structures
- Advising on technologies and methodologies
- Interviewing and choosing the right people for you, if needed
- Creating the project execution plan
Note: If the work during this phase regularly exceeds the calculated 10 hour / week workload, then we will find a solution that works better for both of us, for example, charging by the hour.
During the development phase, this package includes:
Each week, one full briefing with the team (in Agile methodology it’s called the “weekly scrum meeting”), where we:
- compile tasks from user cases or requirements
- examine the project status and best practices
- I give technical and/or technological advice to the team as needed
- Finally, I write a report to all stakeholders about the project status.
Every day a short status meeting with the team (one can call it the “daily scrum”, in Agile-speak).
- This keeps the project flowing nicely.
- Developer time is not wasted in meetings.
- Obstacles can be detected early, and thus, can be avoided.
Note: I take on a maximum of four projects to manage at the same time (and that is only when there are no other commitments for me). Nobody can seriously manage more than four projects, it’s physically impossible.
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NOTE: VAT is not included in the prices because according to European tax law, services of consultants and electronically supplied services are taxable at the place where the customer is established when the customer is inside the European Union, or with zero VAT if outside. (But sometimes other solutions are also available.)
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