RMFL HELP WANTED:

WEB MASTER

RMFL - As RMFL Commissioner, Jared Neumeier, begins to finalize his staff for 2008, there is but one need left to fill… a new Web Master is needed for the much familiar and recognition-winning RMFL web site.

The RMFL Web Site was created back in 1999 by a free-lance web designer named Jerry Hewitt.  Hewitt worked for a design company by the name of “Emeralds of the West” and did the RMFL site by way of a promotional job for then Commissioner, Matt Culbertson.  Very little was on the original RMFL site, however, anything that was put on was done by Hewitt, by way of a story being sent or called in by Culbertson (in 1999) or Neumeier (2000).

In October of 2000, Hewitt notified Jared Neumeier, who was the Chairman of the RMFL Managing Board (as there was no “Commissioner” in the year 2000) that he would no longer be doing his “gratis” work for the RMFL and someone from within the RMFL would have to take over the management of the Web site.

In the Managing Board meeting following the 2000 All Star game (November 4th), Neumeier resigned as Chairman of the Managing Board, but before he did so, worked with the Board to assign out various functions that would need to be done.  Initially, Boise’s Patrick Avent, was assigned to take over the web site from Hewitt.

Six weeks after the meeting (December 15th), Hewitt contacted Neumeier and let him know that Avent was not returning e-mails/calls and didn’t seem to be taking the action of taking over the web site very aggressively.  It was then, that Neumeier actively gained the web address: www.rockymountainfootball.com, and on December 19th, 2000, the RMFL web site was created and the site, as it is known today, was born.

A few weeks later, Neumeier attended the January kick-off meeting on January 13th, 2001 on behalf of his former team, the Idaho Falls Mustangs, with the intention of turning the web site over to a new board member as he was still intent upon retiring from activity in the RMFL.  At that meeting, representatives from the other teams around the RMFL made a strong pitch for Neumeier to run the RMFL as an actual “Commissioner… including the operation of the web site.

Neumeier has been operating the RMFL web site ever since.

With the new direction that he is taking the league with the assignment of Division Level Commissioners (AAA and AA), the hiring of a Marketing Director to go a long with a Head of Officials and a staff Treasure and Secretary, Neumeier is planning on also stepping down as the League’s official Web Master; turning over the web site that he has been operating for 7 years to a more “qualified” individual.

“Not that I’m ‘unqualified,” Neumeier explained, “its just that I KNOW there are even better people for the job than me.”

Neumeier says he is looking for someone that meets the following criteria:

1)                  intermediate to expert web design skills@

2)                  very organized

3)                  excellent communicator

4)                  can post articles submitted within 24 hours

5)                  can post game stories/stats as immediately as they are submitted

6)                  Must work Saturdays during the season to operate and post to the live scoreboard

7)                  Will work for $1000 per season (to start).#

8)                  Is trustworthy

@ “expert” web design skills not required. Neumeier says his skills are only “intermediate”.

#      Neumeier performed the position in 2007 on a salary of $500

 

Any one within the RMFL who is potential interested in taking over as the RMFL Web Master beginning in the 2008 season is urged to contact

 Jared Neumeier via e-mail at: rockymountainfootball@yahoo.com

The new RMFL web master would be required to come to the Kickoff meeting in January, set to begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, January 25th in Pocatello, Idaho (details to be released soon).

During the course of the weekend meeting, the site would be transitioned to the new web master, who would take over effective January 26th.

According to Neumeier, “my biggest fears about this job are that I won’t get anyone I can trust to do the job for the pay.  The more I parcel out the individual responsibilities of what I’ve been doing for so many years, the more I realize how seriously underpaid I was and how hard it would be to find anyone to do it for the same as I did it for.  Hopefully, by beefing up that kitty to $1000, it might help.  If I can’t find someone to take the job over, then I will have to keep doing it… and I really don’t want to keep doing it, besides, new blood should really improve the product and add a little more excitement to a very well-hit site.”