Team Role Descriptions

Organizational

Founding Director

Core Duty: Strategic development, standards definition, and practical testing on an ongoing basis towards the distributive economy. Core Skills: Visionary leadership and hands-on involvement on organizational, technical, and practical fronts.

• Lead strategist and strategic partnership developer
• Lead Extreme Manufacturing platform developer
• Approves human resource allocations and budgets for development
• Maintains close rapport with Production, Farm, and Construction Directors towards a scalable OSE Campus development model
• Produces Instructional Videos on Organizational Innovation towards disruptive change

Executive Assistant

Core Duty: support of the day-to-day activities of the Founding Director. Core Skills: Well-organized individual who is a lifestyle investor in the project.

• Lives on-site at Factor e Farm
• Maintains close rapport with Founding Director (FD) regarding the progress of the organization
• Weekly meeting, 11:30 AM every Monday.
• Manages FD's emails: responds to emails, initial contacts, collaboration inquiries
• Umakes phone calls for information requests, parts sourcing, etc.
• Organizes the FD's calendar, sets up travel, appointments, interviews, conference calls, and other engagements
• Negotiates speaking engagements
• Undergoes cross-training Crash Programs presented by Factor e Farm every Saturday
  • Undergoes basic training in open suorce video editing, CAD, custom fabrication, agriculture, and construction
• Produces one instructional video per (every 1-2 months or as needed) months regarding the Executive Assistant position and its duties
• Participates in Daily Scrum in the workshop for 4-6 hours every day.
• Schedules Flash Mob development sessions, and helps to recruit Flash Mob members
• Responds to initial contacts and does follow-ups (community relations)
• Organizes facility tours, work days for outsiders, team work sessions for FeF participants
• Organizes dinners prepared by an outside cook
• Organizes work days for outside participants
• Provides tours to new team members and helps them set up their living and working environment - until a site manager is recruited
• Orders materials and supplies for the project
• Must have their own transportation to run errands.

Technology Assistant

Core Duties: Internet platform support for the project including collaborative CAD, Flash Mob organization, web platform, and web presence. Core Skills: Good working knowledge of a wide array of programming languages, computer platforms, and internet infrastructures.

• Basic coding skills (Python, Arduino Environment, Processing, html, CSS, wiki markup)
• Android augmented reality apps development experience - to make fabrication training instructionals for CEB, tractor, Power Cube, and soil pulverizer.
• Basic knowledge of CAM
• Basic knowledge of CAD functionality

Recruiter

Core Duty: Recruiting and On-Boarding leadership to invite one new on-site candidate per week and 5 additional subject matter experts to Flash Mob teams.

• Assists in recruits a cook/site community manager/tour organizer
• Recruits talent for Flash Mobs according to XM Flash Mob Recruiting Strategy
• Recruits Farm Director, Production Director, and Construction Director from search to on-boarding

Development Director

Core Duty - Faising funds, fellowships, and in-kind organizational assistance support for the organization.

• Writes grants and Fellowships
• Manages a Resource Development Team
• Interviews candidates until a full time recruiter is identified
• Sets up legal and financial infrastructure of the organization

Production

Production Director

• Manages production runs with apprentices
• Develops $20k/month bootstrap revenue generation plan for Factor e Farm (definition of facility, space, tooling, ergonomics
• Executes the plan
• Works with entrepreneurs in Entrepreneurship Incubation program
• Develops and documents Distributive Enterprise Business Model under CC Share Alike license
• Works with FeF Documenter to develop Video Instructionals
• Documents progress openly with a daily log and vlog on the wiki using an automatic upload platform such as an Android smart phone.

Distributive Enterprise Incubator Interns

• Manage a complete production run from part sourcing to delivery
• Collaborates with Factor e Farm on social marketing assistance.
• Performance-based revenue-sharing contract with Factor e Farm
• Work 50% time on production run and 50% on further prototyping.
• 20 hours/week of volunteer workshop prototyping/training/assistance work required

Workshop Apprentices

• Assist in fabrication and other workshop duties
• Help in other FeF-related work in site maintenance, construction, and agriculture as needed

Construction Director

• Works with Floyd Hagerman on technology transfer of CEB Contrstruction methods
  • Utilizes assistance from FeF Documentor to produce related instructionals
  • Writes scripts for construction instructionals
• Develops a process for building a 350 square foot microhouse on a week time-scale and $3000-5000 budget for shell structure including kitchen and bathroom
• Gains proficiency in Sawmill and forestry operations
• Works with GVCS equipment and provides feedback to related Product Directors on usability/development needs
• Experience in standard construction techniques is a baseline, but should be complemented with quick learning ability of nonstandard and natural building techniques
• Basic familiarity with equipment maintenance, repair, torching and welding is also desirable
• Construction management skills are required
• Required to cross train in basic fabrication/repair and other Core Cross-Training Tompetencies
• Documents progress openly with a daily log and vlog on the wiki using an automatic upload platform such as an Android smart phone.
• Interior house design using Sweet Home 3D
• Produces house design in Sketchup
• Rooftop water catchment cisterns and shallow well construction
• Digs and develops deep water wells
• Cross trains in Core Cross-Training Competencies

Farm Director

• Surveys FeF
• Keyline plows for erosion control
• Digs retention ponds and fish ponds
• Designs, plants and maintains a garden, greenhouse, nursery, edible forest garden, and field crops
• Organized and manages on-site team for group work days in plantout, harvest, and other tasks
• Maintains and propagates chicken, duck, goose, cow, and pig flocks
• Installs bat houses, worm beds, compost beds, fish ponds, mushroom culture, and other management practices

Product Director

• Works on taking a single product to Distributive Enterprise deployment
• Produces a strategic plan and timeline and submits
  • Communicates infrastructure, personnel, and other resource needs in strategic plan
• Networks and assesses progress needs of a project, and provides support for progress acceleration
• Prioritizes execution of XM steps
• Proposes resource allocation (human capital, materials, budgets) for approval by FD
• Collaboration network development - Establishes contacts with related projects that are already working on related open source tools, processes, or infrastructures
• Recruits and Development Team (Flash Mobs, Designers, Prototypers, etc.) and secures work commitments, focusing on crowd sourcing of resources
• Recruits Flash Mob members by Strategic Flash Mob Recruiting
• Organizes 5 Flash Mob sessions per week to accelerate development
• Works with the rest of the team to develop a Flash Mob platform
• Documents progress openly with a daily log and vlog on the wiki using an automatic upload platform such as an Android smart phone.
• Cross trains on any outstanding Core Cross-Training Competencies
• Works with FD on Definition of Ready and Definition of Done for a given product
• Responsible for breaking down the technology to a SEBD and having FD approve the breakdown
• Recruits a Flash Mob for Design, CAD, and Review
• Develops rapport with Flash Mob, evealuates contributor performance
• Maintains a task trackingfor in Scrumy
• Works with Factor e Farm fabricators to build prototypes
• Develops and verifies Bills of Materials, secures Sourcing, and
• Solicits bids from Flash Mob participants or from a general bidding procedure
• Evaluates bids from bidders
• Collaborates with FD on defining product specifications/design rationales for each technology. This sets the pathway for how a product is designed in essence congruent with OSE Specifications
• Assures that logging, blogging, and vlogging of progress occurs on an ongoing basis - by collecting input from all team members and by posting the documentation on Project Page Log and Work Product of Control Panel
• Leverages social networks and other platforms for Flash Mob recruitment
• Evolves the Project Page platform to accommodate any additional project tracking needs
• Recruits crowd-based subject matter expertise to each project
• Reviews budgets from bidders and submits to FD for approval
• Makes on-site visits with collaborators as needed
• Keeps a daily log on the wiki.
• Collaborates with Factor e Farm Documenter in preparing a weekly update vlog/blog.
• Communicates assessment of projects and recovery plans in a weekly meeting with F, or as often as needed.