How can you benefit from cooperation with me? I will be very brief, here are 2 simple reasons:

1. To save your time. I already know answers to question that you should dig long to answer.
2. To save your money. There are different ways to get the same result. Some of them cost more, some less. I can help you select the best.

Another good presentation I got via Digital Sport Summit participation: Anthonty Harrison about use of Mobile web and native iPhone and Blackberry applications in marketing for sport organization.

Presentation from Nick Marvin, CEO of basketball team Perth Wildcats about marketing and social media for sport clubs.

There is a good article about economical impact of outsourcing and what potential buyer should expect on Outsourcing.com web site.

I’ll quote that work conclusion:

Full text is available at www.outsourcing.com

Vague requirement documentation is most often reason of fail in software development projects. One cause of such requirement problems is the language we use when write our documents. Issues and background that are very evident for one person, can be completely new and different for another, so it is creatical to use Elaborative, not Restrictive language in requirement documentation.

An article of Mark Monteleone is a great illustration of how that problem appears and what can be done to avoid it. Must read to all business analyst and other people working with requirements

Obviously for Australian companies, Russia is not a traditional outsourcing destination. Why it make a sense to think about sending your IT project to Russia?

In the begin I’ll try to downgrade couple myths about Russia and then present some reasons, why Russia should be considered for software projects outsourcing.

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Today results appears in the University online system, I have successfully passed all my subjects. As I presumed, best results was on Managerial Economics and Data&Decision, others are also not so bad.
So right now I can relax (at least with study related issues) until the begin of February.

So, I have moved to Melbourne Australia. The process was not easy, but now it is done and I’ll live here at least 2 years, while study in Melbourne Business School. My study will start next week and so far I am enjoyed my life in Australia.

In couple weeks I will move to Melbourne, Australia. I will study in Melbourne Business School for 2 years, obtain MBA degree.

I invested significant efforts and money to that venture and hope that it worth my endeavours. My family will movve with me, 2 years is to long time to live apart.

So I am very exited about my life in Australia, it should be fun

Description of vacancy:

European IT company looking for reliable, self-motivated and energetic person to hold position of company country representative

Requirements:
Educational and work experience:
Completed university degree (Bachelor and higher), from 2 years of working experience in sales, project management and administrative duties. Experience to work in IT company will be big plus
Required skills: computer literacy (MS Office, E-mail, Internet), some IT background is a plus, commercial documents preparation, negotiations with clients and suppliers, management of small team of people
Language requirements: native Russian/Ukrainian, fluent English, working knowledge of Italian is highly desirable
Others:
Registration as private entrepreneur is desirable
Обязанности:
Sales of company service to Ukrainian clients, work with suppliers and contractors, represent the company in Ukraine, collaborate with headquarter

Full time, maybe not in regular work hrs sometimes.

Compensation level will be based on interview results, approximate level is 800-1200 USD

Email to send your CV – job@levashov.biz

The cost is not always #1 factor in IT business, but of cause it is important. Below I will provide the short summary of salary expenses in such area as software development using Microsoft .Net technology.
So what salary expenses you should expect if you open office in Ukraine and employ the developers to work full time (do not forget that we are talking now only about the salary, that in reality just a part of expenses when you employ people – taxes, social security, vacations, sickness, etc)?

There are several factors that will affect the compensations and main 3 are:

- location. Kiev has the highest salaries; compensation in Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov and other big cities are lower, and what you pay in smaller cities is the lowest. That is the rule, but of cause it has some exclusions;

- qualification level and experience. Quite clear, the bigger the experience – the higher the salary

- position you need to fill. Related with previous but not directly. Team leader, senior developer get more than junior programmer

The very rough digits show the next picture:

- for the whole Ukraine salary for .Net developers starts from as low as $200 and finishes at $4000 as top margin. The median salary is $900

- if we take just Kiev we get a bit other digits: $250-$1200-$4000

Figures are monthly wages, after tax in US dollars.

I would say that it is hardly possible to find any decent candidate orienting on the bottom margin, I suspect that reporting bottom level salary may be possible in some internships for people without any experience only and for very reputable companies. If you want to find experienced candidate and do it fast you should offer salary higher than median.

Sources of information: different job and IT sites and own experience