Rails developer / evangelist needed next week

[Keith Steele]

Hello everyone,

I am a partner is a small development firm downtown (http://www.sitkatech.com).  We are primarily a .NET shop and have a sidebar opportunity that has come up that I'm hoping one of you can help us with.  We have been approached by a firm that wants us to develop small interactive web prototype sites for their customers.  Each prototype may have 15-20 interactive pages and will need to be turned around in 2-3 weeks time.  We are an agile shop and will be interacting frequently the the end customer to gather feedback, probe requirements, and offering suggestions.  These clients will sometimes be spanish and french speakers, so if you happen to know either of these languages, that would be a plus (but not strictly necessary).  This may not be solid, full-time work but there should be a steady stream of these sorts of mini-projects coming for quite some time.

With this effort, I want our company to try out Rails and this is why I've come to you.  From everything I've read, Rails would be a perfect fit for this sort of thing and be more flexible than our large .NET stack would.  Not being experienced in Rails ourselves, we are looking for an experienced, talented, energetic person to help us do two things:

1.  Lead the development efforts with our client and be the primary person responsible for delivering these prototypes.

2.  Assist developers and management in our company get up to speed on Ruby and Rails and get us plugged into "best practice" patterns and libraries.

Near-rock star CSS, HTML, and javascript skills are required.  Having a keen eye for visual design and knowing your way around photoshop is also helpful.

This would be a 1099 sort of engagement.  Splitting time between your home and our offices downtown would be an option.  The hourly rate is $60 (this is the best that I could get from our client).  If you are interested, sharp, and easy to work with then I would very much like to speak with you.  This gig will be kicking off this coming week (12/7) and I really don't want to do it in ASP.NET.  Someone please help! 

Thanks for your time,

Keith