Rory Cullen, Kaizen Software Developer

Ok, so hopefully I got you in here once and peaked your interest in my idea. Well, you may be wondering why I would be willing to work for free, and what type of work I would like to do.

So why would I do this??? Because I am a career shifter. I want to be a Java Developer. I’ve been interested in it for a long time, and have been building my skills on my own time (Sun Certified Java Associate, June 2008). Although I have eight years of development experience and was a Consultant Software Engineer in my last development role, I have not had any professional Java experience. The Java work I most enjoy is writing web applications, primarily using MVC with Struts, JSP and Servlets. I have worked with Eclipse, Apache Tomcat and MySQL, along with other technologies. I would like an opportunity to work with some of these technologies on a day-to-day basis, aside from my own projects. Needless to say, I want to keep learning other technologies as well, but assume you might want to start me off in technologies I am familiar with! My preference is to work on a team as I ramp up my knowledge on the job.

I am interested in Saas (software as a service) and cloud computing, and my preference would be working in a software company, but I’m open.

I am located in Central Massachusetts, and since I would be working for free, would prefer to stick to the Worcester/495/Metro West regions. However, I would be willing to speak to anyone who was interested.

Needless to say, I can’t work for free forever, so grab this bargain while available. Take a chance and we’ll see what happens!

Do you know someone who might know someone who might want to try this out? If so, please link us up!