The core of the SIB₃ team usually consists of about twenty full-time employees.

Among them there are 4 highly competent managers with management experience of 5-15 years and overall IT experience of more than 15 years. Each of the managers can supervise 1 to 3 projects, depending on size and other requirements. However, in the hardest cases a managerial team of 2 or 3 managers can be assigned to one project.

About half of the team core members are skilled software architects and developers with experience from 3 to 10 or more years. They are all capable of mentoring junior developers and students to achieve high productivity, while still keeping the quality of our software products at a very high level.

SIB₃ also has a QA department that controls software development process through all stages from project inception to release and post-production support. The leader of the QA department (the quality engineer), has more than 20 years of IT experience and exceptionally broad knowledge of software development technologies.

SIB₃ is a complete company with its own sales and accounting services.

Based on the requirements of a project, additional specialists are typically invited to SIB₃ on a temporary contract basis as developers, testers and even field or technology experts: the perfect location of SIB₃ allows hiring of very high-quality staff if necessary. The team can easily be expanded to 100 members.

To characterize the SIB₃ core skill profile, we estimated the average skill level on the following skill level scales.

For software development:
1 - has read documentation or books, but no practice.
2 - university or training courses, training projects,
3 - novice - less than 0.5 years work experience,
4 - intermediate - 0.5 to 2 years work experience,
5 - proficient - 2 to 4 years work experience,
6 - expert - more than 4 years work experience,
7 - expert and experience in leading/training teams,

For English communication skills:
2 - utterly poor - some skills in a specific area,
3 - poor - can explain/understand all basic ideas with a dictionary,
4 - fair - can fully and clearly explain/understand all basic ideas, possibly with a few mistakes
5 - good - same, without significant mistakes,
6 - excellent - fluent within a specific area.

On this scale, the average skill estimates for some SIB₃ positions are as follows:

C/C++	5.8
Java	5.4
Windows	5.7
Unix	4.9
Internet	5.7
DB	5.3
Commercial Application Programming	5.3
English	4.65

The SIB₃ team has had considerable experience of working on the premises of foreign customers (France, Germany, USA, and other countries); almost every employee has been on visits to foreign customers: from a week or two to several months, for a total of about 30 months.

For additional illustration, see extracts from the CVs of two SIB₃ members:

Operating systems: (with programming and administrating experience)
DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/Me, BeOS, UNIX: AIX, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX, HP/UX, OSF1 and more

Programming languages/scripts:
C++, C, Modula-2, Pascal, Assembler, Basic, Fortran, Ada , SQL, PHP, shell scripts, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Perl, ASP, FoxBase/FoxPro and more

Programming environments:
C++Builder (1, 3, 4, 5, 6), Visual C++ (4.x, 5, 6) with MFC, Watcom C/C++ (10.x), GCC, Proprietary C compilers of UNIXes; Delphi (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) with VCL, Visual Basic, FoxPro, MS Access,

Programming techniques:
Object-Oriented programming, Client-Server architecture, Operating system architecture, Computing system architecture, GUIs, Databases, Networks

Administrating techniques:
LAN with UNIXes, Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/Me, WFWG, Dos

Here's another one:

Operating systems:
DOS, MS Windows 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/ME, UNIX, AIX, SunOS.

Programming systems/languages:
C/C++ (Various versions), Delphi 1-4, Java (JDK 1.1 - 1.3), script languages, HTML, XML, SQL

Libraries:
MFC, ATL, some cryptographic libraries, JMF, various XML libraries for Java, Java Servlets, JSP, EJB

Protocols:
TCP/IP, UDP, DLC, X.25, X.28, HTTP/1.1, SMTP, SNTP

Tecnologies:
COM/OLE, ActiveX, Microsoft RPC, CORBA, XML/XSL, DHTML

Databases:
MS SQL server (6.5 and 7.0), Borland Interbase, Desktop databases, ODBC, ADO, JDBC

PM and UML tools:
Rational Unified Process, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Object domain, Together, Microsoft Project

Hardware:
PC (from 8088 to P-4), SUN Sparc, RS/6000