[freeside-users] Admin/Programmer Needed

[Dana Hudes]

Kyle,
I have extensive experience with RADIUS and an am an expert Linux/Unix 
admin. I have done some work with Freeside.
I have also setup news service (USENET) many times.
Overall I am an  experienced senior network engineer with a decade of 
experience in the ISP sector.

I am amazed that in 2005 someone in the contintental US can make money on 
dialup. 100 users/month is not bad but you will need more to really get 
ahead.

In terms of compensation I'm aware of your budget constraint and the 
market but I have overhead to cover too (my electric bill just jumped by 
1/3; I'm looking for an 'alternate energy provider' but unlike the CLEC 
biz where everyone touts a price this 'ESCO' just make vague promises ).
I can do $80/hr corp-corp. I'm not anticipating very many hours each week.

In terms of reaching me, I give clients my cell phone and advise of hours 
that I can be reached. I do have a day job but have time before work if 
need be and of course evenings and weekends.

you can find my cv at http://www.hudes.org/resume.html

In short: BS,MS Comp. Sci.; coursework completed for PhD in Computer 
Engineering (specializing in Information Security) , working on a thesis 
topic; 22 years IT industry experience, 10 years in the ISP sector now 
doing enterprise Solaris administration. Former Computer Science 
Professor. I do C, Perl and a bunch of other stuff. Lots and lots of 
apache....the list goes on. What I am not is I am not a 20 y.o. undergrad 
who has poked around and thinks he's a consultant and expert. 
You'll get plenty of those and sometimes they have their uses (heh, a 
couple of my former students were pretty sharp). 
They lack the overall depth and understanding of business.
Hence, though I may be considerably more expensive, I'm worth it.

Sincerely,
Dana Hudes



On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Kyle Leissner wrote:

> Hello,
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> I own a small dialup ISP (around 500 users at the current time) but we are expanding rapidly (at least 100 users per month signup) with no advertising since we started 4 months ago. We use Freeside as our main billing system.
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> Currently we only have one programmer/admin that runs our whole operation. He does good work, but lives in New Zealand, and is very hard to get a hold of. We are looking for a freelance admin/programmer that has experience with Freeside and radius features. We are looking to do the following:
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> -setup accelerated dialup service with Freeside and radius groups
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> -install the address book for our webmail program
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> -upload and update the knowledge base
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> -create an automated user signup/setup program 
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> -setup echecking features
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> -make the signup page load faster and make it not so buggy
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> -make/implement the customer login interface for them to cancel their account, update their password, update their information, and setup additional email accounts
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> -setup newsgroups
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> -setup user hosting service
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> We are on a very tight budget as we have just broke even with our operation. Please respond off list if you are interested in doing freelance work on our system.
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> Thank you,
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> Kyle Leissner 
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