An organization is more than its bottom line. Facts and figures, although a convenient way to depict a company's success, do not show culture or character. One must look further-to a company's people, to its place in the community, and to its reputation-to see the entire picture.

Many benefits can be derived from deploying technology in human resources department, chief among them being improved efficiency and increased productivity. But it's still people who make the office hum. Technology will never eliminate the need for an HR department. dotCOMpeople is always looking for top talent and hire top professionals as needed.

Like people, organizations have unique natures and distinctive traits. Some might even say that they have both minds and hearts, dotCOMpeople is one of them. dotCOMpeople takes the pride to have a team of committed and dedicated professionals, who love what they do. dotCOMpeople has the total strength of twenty three professional programmers, minimum of 5 years of experience under every one's belt.
Our resources are comprised of:

1- Information Design Team
2- Information Technology Team
3- Back Office Team
4- Project Management
5- Management

1- Information Design Team:-

The Information Design is further categorized as follows.

• 1.1- Art Director:-
  
  The art director is responsible for creating the graphical concept. This is a very creative and demanding task since each customer expects something, which has never been done before.
  
  The art director must be able to create visuals from limited information about the customer expectations (it's usually very difficult for customers to define their likes, needs and dislikes). They need to do this taking into account the technical possibilities offered by the technologies that will be used in the project and production efficiency.
  
  During this process, the art director needs to take into account the usability for the end-user, generic ergonomic rules and the structure of the information that is to be presented, taking into account the requirements of the various audiences.
  

  1.2- The Tester:-
  
  The tester's main responsibility is to test the end product - within the system as a whole, be perceptive and investigate/report any discrepancy noticed, not only with respect to the project file, but also with respect to common sense.
  The tester not only needs to be diligent, but also be a good communicator, in order to be able to report consistently and comprehensively his/her findings to the development team. He/she needs to be able to combine functional thinking with usability evaluation and technical comprehension.

2- Information Technology Team:-

The Information Technology team consists of the

• 2.1- Lead Developer:-
  
  The lead developer is the main technical contact on a project.
  He/she defines the architecture, the data model, the technological principles used and such like.
  
  He/she needs to be a technical expert in this domain and be able to capture requirements and envisage them in a system with its components. During development the lead developer will commonly be responsible for the peer reviews of the technical analysis documents produced by the Web developers, making sure the different module designs are consistent and will integrate.
  
  2.2- Project Developers:-
  
  Web developers are responsible for one or more modules in a system. Based on the architecture defined by the lead developer and the requirements formulated in the project file their responsibility is to analyze this on a technical level, validate their design (both through peer reviews, prototyping and thorough module tests) and produce the source code. It is their responsibility to deliver modules on time and meet quality targets, ready for integration and QA testing

3- Back Office Team:-

Following Personals are working in the background to perform the Back Office tasks :

• 3.1- Planning Manager:-

  The central planning manager is responsible for a first level follow-up of the planning across Business Units. From our central planning system the planning manager can observe the workload of the production pool.
  
  If there are unplanned resources he tries to optimize this by triggering the project managers and executive managers for either forward shifts of project tasks, cross-BU-planning or internal jobs. If none are available the executive manager defines future training needs and the resource is allocated to self-study.
  
  If there are over-bookings the planning manager is the first mediator to resolve this, either by finding other, equivalent available resources, or by shifting tasks for the resource or others, or by re-setting priorities. This is always done through communication with relevant project managers and executive managers.
  The planning manager does also the follow up of the registrations in our Timesheet system. This entails 3 major parts:
  
  1. Follow-up of not filled in timesheets from employees (bi-weekly)
  2. Follow-up of matching between planning and recorded activities in the timesheets
  3. Generation of monthly overview of time spend per project
  
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  In general his task can described as: facilitating a smooth project flow through the organization and optimization of our efficiency.
  
  3.2- Human Resources:-

  The HR manager is responsible for recruitment, management of ressources and training.
  The HR manager has as the main objectives
  
  a. Find the required skilled resources (recruitment )
  b. Retain the existing employees ( management)
  c. Maintain and develop the skill set of the present employees (training )
  
  This includes administrative handling, follow-up, search, initial screening, training organization and tracking.

4- Project Management.:-

The Project Management Team consists of the following personals

· Project Manager
· Analyst\Consultant

4.1- Project Manager:-
The project manager is the client's main contact for the full duration of the project, his/her main responsibilities are budgetary management, time and project management, and all the necessary coordination and quality control required to ensure the project is successful. Together with the customer representative he/she manages the project from start to finish.

4.2- Analyst / Consultant:-
The analyst/consultant has as his/her main role the capturing of requirements, both on a functional, structural and technical level in order to translate the customer's implicit and explicit expectations into a working system.
They are the direct interface for and with the customer and will meet a number of people in the customer's organization in order to capture and validate the requirements. Therefore he/she does not only need to have excellent analytical and technical skills and abstract thinking, but he also needs to have very good inter-personal and client handling skills.

5- Management:-

· Executive Manager
· Account Manager

5.1- Executive Manager:-

The executive manager is the responsible for a business unit (BU). It is his task to manage the proper functioning of the BU.
This entails tasks such as:

a. Search & selection of employees (assisted by our HR manager)
b. Attribution of resources to projects (employees, infrastructure, training, )
c. Maintenance and development of the competences of the team (assisted by our HRM responsible)
d. Follow-up and evaluation of employees
e. Follow-up of the customers and projects running in the BU, and if needed guidance during corrective and preventive actions
f. Build and maintain relations with partner companies

In general, dotCOMpeople executive managers, directors in the company, ensure a long-term commitment and down to earth approach.
To ensure a clear focus of the executive manager towards customer satisfaction and profitability for the BU (and thus the complete company) they are evaluated and rewarded based on these criteria on a yearly basis.

5.2- Account Manager:-
The account manager is the driver of the commercial process. It is his/her responsibility to make sure that leads are qualified, that qualified leads are responded to and do whatever possible to turn the potential customer into a customer.

During the other project phases the account manager is responsible for maintaining a birds-eye view on the project in order to make sure that commitments are kept, the relation with the customer stays optimal and scope new opportunities with this customer.
Considering the huge scope of this project we will be hiring eight new professionals to collect data from the district. They will conduct consultation with the provincial and district government line departments. They have already been interviewed and selected and will be joining us as soon we start on the project.