[LRUG] [JOBS] Teach at Makers Academy (+ our graduation ceremony)

[Mark Weston]

Hi Evgeny,

I saw this email and I've been following the story of Makers Academy.  The
TA role sounds like an interesting challenge and I'd like to find out more
about it, and about what you're looking for.

I've been working (commercially) with Ruby-on-Rails for a couple of years,
currently working for a web startup in the Travel business.  I spend a lot
of my time advocating for TDD and readable code, and trying to improve my
skills in those areas.  I think I'm a clear and articulate communicator,
and I've had plenty of previous experience (previous to my life as a Ruby
dev) of communicating/teaching in the technical support and internal user
training roles.

Could we chat first (phone/skype/IM/whatever) or would you like to see a CV
first?  Please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Mark Weston


On 19 December 2013 19:05, Evgeny Shadchnev <evgeny.shadchnev at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Makers Academy <http://www.makersacademy.com/> is an intensive, 12 week,
> full-time course in web development.
>
> I'm looking for* two teaching assistants* to help the teachers:
> - 1-2 years of Ruby and RoR experience, including TDD
> - Passion for clean, eloquent code
> - Great interpersonal skills
>
> We teach complete beginners how to code and place them into junior web
> developmer jobs. Our grads have been hired as full-time developers by New
> Bamboo, Funding Circle, BSkyB, Enternships, Global Personals, and other
> companies. They built Seederboard <https://www.seederboard.com/> and
> Bean&Ground <https://www.beanandground.co.uk/>.
>
> Here's what our grads say:
> - "One month after graduating I accepted a great offer from an awesome
> London Tech Company<http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-west-end-theatre-to-coding-everyday/>
> "
> - "It is scary but do it sooner rather then later!<http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-travel-agent-to-developer-at-bskyb/>
> "
> - "If you work hard and take the plunge and show dedication it will work!<http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-sales-marketing-to-web-development/>
> "
>
> Our hiring partners say that they are "consistently blown away by the
> calibre [we]’re producing<http://blog.makersacademy.com/what-a-hiring-partner-think-about-makers-academy/>
> ".
>
> We change people's lives for the better. We have more students applying to
> MA than we can teach, so we need more teachers to help our team of eight.
>
> You'll be either pairing with our students on our curriculum<http://www.makersacademy.com/info/curriculum>,
> helping them to become developers or writing code for our online learning
> platform Atlas <http://blog.makersacademy.com/atlas-is-live/>. We pay a
> market salary + stock options, don't track days off and welcome internal
> transparency (email me if you want details). We're backed by top investors,
> profitable and growing.
>
> If you would like to see how far a beginner can get in only 12 weeks,
> please come to the *graduation ceremony* of the September cohort tomorrow
> at 1530 <http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487>.
> The students will be presenting their final projects that they've built in
> the last 2 weeks of the course. One of them involves controlling fireworks
> using Raspberry Pi and websockets – the demo will be awesome :) The link
> is: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487
>
> Thank you, lrug :)
>
> Evgeny
> Co-founder, Makers Academy
>
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