Wolf Services

About Myself

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Currently I live and work in St.-Petersburg, Russia. I am running small software development company. We are specialized in Agile RoR development at this moment.

My background was in Java web development for one of the top global IT operators. After that I worked as a sales manager for global IT consulting firm.

Then I and my partner established a new company, where i work now. At the first time we were MS guys and worked with .NET and SharePoint. Later we hired some guys for Java projects. And finally about year ago we started Rails department, where most employers work now. Most of our clients are small and medium companies from US and Europe.
During last 5 years I worked with many clients (mostly from US and EU) and a found a lot of well and excellent
IT services providers from Eastern Europe, Russia and India. In the same time i also realized that thousands of individuals and small companies from that region has extremely low quality of services, which may confuse clients and make them keep out of outsourcing at all, considering it as useless wasting money.

I strongly believe that we are moving to the era of global economy and IT area is on top of these trends. Internet and communication technologies born a new economic phenomena - distributed teams. Software outsourcing to other countries is just a one case of it.
Imagine that you own CA-based company and need to hire 10 new coders for your project:
Few years ago: you go to dice.com and look for CA coders with needed skills or contact recruiting agency
Now: There are global pools of services so you can find NY based team of ten developers exactly as you need.
So my idea is that currently focus is shifting from geographical location to actual skills that every person or company has. Only new technologies in communication and project management make this possible.
The global aim of Wolf Services organization that i established is to give all skilled people and good companies around the world equals opportunities and to help companies to archive most.

Cases

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Below is the list of cases where Wolf Services can really help:

Case 1
CA-based startup is seeking for RoR Developement company to develop new promising web 2.0 project.
What we do:

Suggest budget idea(time/price estimation)
Help to find correct company with good rate
Interview developers
Project management help - progress review, code review, QA

Case 2
Experienced group of RoR developers organized a company in India and looking for projects
What we do:

Company employers interview and testing
Recent projects code reviews
Showcasing company on our web site
Suggesting this company to clients looking for quality RoR development services.

More cases to be added soon

Services

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First of all: we are non-profit organization. This means than you don't have to pay for anything.

I have my own software development company (i don't trying to promote it here in any way) -this is where i get money from. You can know more about our goals here

We offer services both for software development companies and their clients.

For Small and Middle size Software Development Company
We are can audit your company, your developers skills and experience
Our Methods:

Code reviews
Phone interviews
On site meetings

Why is it helpful for you:

This gives your potential clients trustful presentation of your company as a reliable partner
This helps you to understand strong and weak sides of yourself
This helps your potential clients to find you on our blog [hope it will become popular one day]

For clients
There is no more question "Outsourcing : to be or not to be?" The question is in finding reliable service providers at reasonable prices. With rapid development of communications technologies and Internet geographical factor moves down while skills are still important.
Questions we answer:

How can I leverage my risks in finding good service provider for my IT project.
How can I save $€ on my IT project
How can I establish good and trustable relations with my service provider during all project

How do we do this:

Professional interviewing and helping to find correct partner.
Your provider audit
Project Management help
Providing you lists of proven companies.

Our current focus
At this moment we are focused on Web and Agile projects for small and mid companies. At platforms I stand for RoR, .NET, Java. This is where I have most experience. Not your point? Join us an be our expert in other areas!
Geographically we are focused on IT services providers from Eastern Europe, Russia, India. I have worked within and with number of companies in this region and know it rather well. You can extend our geographical coverage by joining us as well!

Contact Us

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At this moment I am in charge for all contacts. You can contact me by e#ail vlad [use @ here] obsgroup.biz +79013042263 is my cell phone
I prefer open discussion and would be ready to help in any cases i can.

I created blog instead of static site for this project. You can comment any post here. I read all comments.

Goals

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Wolf Services is a Non-Profit IT Consulting Organization aimed to help Small and Middle IT companies and their clients in the era of Global Economy. It was founded by Vlad Gurgov, IT Consultant, CEO from Russia.

On the one hand we help experienced software development companies and even individuals (freelancers) showcase themselves through independent evaluations of their experience skills.

On other we help customers to find best software services providers based on their skills, experience not geographical location and marketing stuff. Also help them to establish trustable relations through Project monitoring, trainings and mentoring.

We are specialized in: Agile development, Web 2.0 projects, RoR ... [Join us and extend our specialization!]

We believe in: strong communication, experience, individual skills

We don't believe in: any kind of certificates(CMM, ISO), brainbenches, portfolios, references.