Originally Posted by harvey

I don't know why are you that worried with Thesis. The designer you're looking for shouldn't be a master at Thesis, but a master at WordPress. Thesis is just a well done wireframe, but I assume you will want to push the boundaries, so you need a designer who knows his/her php and his/her JQuery and his/her WP, not his/her "Thesis". If the designer/coder knows PHP, WP and JQuery, then he/she won't need to ever have seen Thesis, you're scaring people away with the "did you used Thesis?" song as if any designer/coder ever used the all the hundreds of thousands of WP themes around.

The above being said, if you plan to have more or less the Thesis theme "as is", you'll need just a good designer able to skin the theme. If you need to go further, then you'll need a designer AND a coder, I can count with one hand the amount of people on GFY able to do both

And no, I'm not offering my services, just commenting on the issue and wishing you good luck, I feel like you will need it