About The Halcyon   Top Coder Competition Ranking # 284 of 50,771   Raw Score Total: 10,393.04 Name:  The Halcyon (see 8 ratings)   in Mississauga, Ontario Canada Seller / Coder Rating:  9.38 (Superb) Sign up date:  Jan 21, 2003 5:49:04 PM EDT Last Logged In:  Aug 24, 2003 9:49:48 AM EDT Jobs Started:  13 Jobs Completed:  12 Missed Status Report Warnings Issued:  0 Arbitrations Lost:  0 (out of 1 Arbitrations) What is arbitration?       Post a new project exclusively for The Halcyon   Invite The Halcyon to bid on one of my existing projects    Send The Halcyon a bonus   Add The Halcyon to my custom list of favorite coders     Areas Of Expertise:  I am an expert in many languages and pride myself on my fast learning skills. Languages I pride myself in: Visual Basic, Flash, MS Office, HTML, PERL/CGI, Java Script, JAVA and PHP. Languages for which I wouldn't bid, unless it was something easy I could do: C++, ASP and XML. I have all the compilers to make projects in these languages. Basically if I bid I know I can do the job.   Resume:   Top Coder Competition Raw Score   Average Job Size Average Coder Rating Number of Completed Jobs Penalty for Missed Status Reports Warnings * $92.33 x 9.38 x 12 - (0 warnings x 1000 penalty) = 0   Raw Score Total: 10,393 * Penalty rule enacted on 10/8/2001 and applies only to warnings sent after that date. Note: all top coder competition stats are only updated once a day between midnight and 1:00 EDT.     Rent A Coder Work History All ratings and comments are the opinion of the poster and do not reflect the official view of Rent A Coder. Rated For Rated By Rating Bid Amount Rated On   Fix shipping calculation in Perl script DaveNET None Given $50.00 August 22, 2003 6:08:12 PM EDT       Private auction for The Halcyon on 8/13/2003 11:24:45 PM DaveNET 10 (Excellent) $75.00 August 19, 2003 11:53:53 PM EDT   Another excellent piece of work by The Halcyon.     Bonus for The Halcyon on 8/13/2003 11:39:13 PM DaveNET None Given $25.00 August 13, 2003 11:43:00 PM EDT       Modify existing shopping cart, add feature DaveNET 10 (Excellent) $100.00 August 13, 2003 11:24:04 PM EDT   Halcyon is great! Excellent coder. Got my feature exactly as I wanted and more, plus he writes nice, clean code. I will be hiring him again! Thank you!     Flash WYWIWYG Editor TDot 10 (Excellent) $250.00 June 4, 2003 4:33:39 PM EDT   Another project done well by the Halcyon     Mathml bonus TDot None Given $150.00 May 14, 2003 9:36:16 AM EDT       WYSIWYG Math add-on TDot 10 (Excellent) $150.00 April 14, 2003 10:15:03 AM EDT   Excellent work done in a timely manner. I wish I had this guy on staff.     Flash Math Editor with XML output. TDot 10 (Excellent) $150.00 April 7, 2003 3:10:17 PM EDT   This was a very difficult project and The Halcyon did a great job with it. I am very glad to have the final product and will use it extensively in my site. He showed initiative, a desire to impress/please in his work, and dedication. I would recommend his freely to anyone.     Bonus for The Halcyon on 3/19/2003 7:18:28 PM sosolala None Given $10.00 March 19, 2003 7:20:46 PM EDT       Array to mysql sosolala 8 (Very Good) $13.00 March 19, 2003 7:17:31 PM EDT   This man get's the job done!     Link Manager Program markrose 10 (Excellent) $100.00 February 19, 2003 9:51:53 AM EDT       Form Processing with PERL markrose 7 (Good) $35.00 February 1, 2003 6:22:13 AM EDT   Does what is asked, completes work on time, asks questions, responds to emails -- I would definitely contract services again. When a rating system is just numbers without any associated criteria, a rating system is pretty arbitrary. For those who are interested here's what I look for... 10 => does what is asked, completes work on time, responds to emails, thoroughly tests and debugs, asks questions, clarifies scope of work, anticipates questions problems, suggestions for improving performance, suggestions for improving useability, creates a user-friendly GUI, in daily contact, checks in after the project to assess successful outcome and if there are any problems/improvements tweeks to do. 09 => does what is asked, completes work on time, responds to emails, thoroughly tests and debugs, asks questions, clarifies scope of work, anticipates questions problems, suggestions for improving performance, in daily contact, is available after the project for questions and debugging. 08 => does what is asked, completes work on time, responds to emails, thoroughly tests and debugs, asks questions, clarifies scope of work, suggestions for improving useability, daily email updates 07 => does what is asked, completes work on time, asks questions, responds to emails     ------ Average:   9.37