Hello everyone,
I work with a medium small company in Central Oregon. We've been developing our own DNN modules in house for our products and services. I've done some of the work, we had a developer work for us recently, and when he left we replaced him with a firm in India. The Indian firm has been great at times, but a complete waste of time at others. There are many challenges in communicating every fine detail with those folks.
I've decided that we would like to have someone work in house, in our office, to make the communication easier. We've traditionally had developers work for us, at least for 5 years.
Our last developer did not have any DNN experience.
We invested 6 months in getting him up to speed with DNN. (Sent him to St Louis to learn from Engage.) We thought it was going to work out, except his wife lost his job so they decided to change routes and buy into another business. It's not the way either of wanted it to work out, but that's life.
I think it would be unwise for me to hire someone without DNN experience at this point.
So that brings me to this forum. Where should I start my search for an experienced developer with sharp DNN skills? I'm concerned that I'm going to get a lot of developers applying, but for contract work. I really want someone to come out to Bend, Oregon and work with us.
Any recommendations? f you're a DNN developer, where do you search for work? Do you think my strategy is doomed to fail?
I'd love to get your feedback.