Program/Release Manager (TFS/Visual Studio, HTML, Release Tools)

Title: Program/Release Manager Location: Redmond, WA Duration: 4+ months contract on W2(potential for extension) Job Description: The team is looking for a Program Manager to help with the release of the next version of Visual Studio products. This role will support the Release Manager in managing daily release deployment deliverables, tracking project status and maintaining the release and licensing databases. The person in this role will also coordinate and release customer ready product content which includes managing, formatting and releasing the product readmes and public download web pages. Successful candidates for this position must exhibit excellent written and verbal communication skills, organizational skills and have the ability to appropriately prioritize workloads. They must be a self-starter with strong follow-through and have solid attention to detail. We are looking for a motivated team player who is also able to work independently. Technical Knowledge: Office 2010, Team Foundation Server, MS Project, HTML.

Project Manager

Job Description: - Work with all network groups to assure on time completion of projects for the cell site new build program for Southwest Region. - Report to the Program Manager and Director the current project status anticipated progress of projects, issue and obstacles. - Coordinate a new market integration dealing with a wide variety of milestones. - Track the team deliverables to bring new sites up to standard and ready for launch. - Must be ready, willing and comfortable to immediately escalate to supervisors. Requirements: MUST HAVE: o Wireless carrier new build cell program experience. o Proven track record and experience with wireless carrier new build projects from start to end including new market purchases and transitions. o Big picture experience with the entire build out program (in addition to leasing/construction skills); ability to track deliverables; escalate missed deadlines. o Strong team work skills and goal driven work ethic for fast-paced environment Benefits: - 120 hours of vacation and sick leave - 8 Paid Holidays - 401(k) Investment Plan - Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance - Prescription Drug Plan - Direct Payroll Deposit - Social Security and Worker’s Compensation - Unemployment Compensation Insurance - Reimbursement for Job Related Education and Training If you have wireless new build experience and are looking for a challenging but rewarding position this opportunity may be for you. Apply today! EMAIL RESUME TO tricia@resourceconcepts.net.

Business System Analyst

Location: New Carrollton, MD •BS Degree or equivalent years of experience •6 years overall •3 years in HealthCare Claims/Bill Processing •Healthcare Claims/Bill processing environment •Experience with Rational RequisitePro, ClearCase, and ClearQuest •Solid experience with MS Word, Excel, Visio and Powerpoint Oversees, plans, and designs highly complex business processes and makes recommendations in order to improve and support business activities. Analyzes and documents client's complex business requirements and processes; constructs conceptual data and process models, including data dictionaries and volume estimates to communicate requirements.

Software Test Engineer / Lead / Programmer

Title: Software Test Engineer - Lead Location: Palo Alto, CA 94306 Job Type: Full Time Salary: Open and flexible depending on experience Benefits: World-Class benefits package Contact: greg (at) hirefighters.com Our Client is a rapidly-growing Silicon Valley start-up that is redefining the way people save and share their most valued possession. Our team is driven by a passion for product, people and the perfect customer experience. Over 5 million people have used their products, and 90% of our customers are actively recommending us to family and friends. The Company is not just another start-up: we are profitable, our revenues are growing 700% per year, and we’re just getting started. Qualifications: • 3-10 years managing test automation development teams • Excellent at dealing with ambiguity and managing risk • Demonstrated ability to develop test automation development teams • Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow junior team members • Ability to program in ruby is a plus • Expertise in the linux/unix environment is a plus • Expertise with continuous integration systems such as Jenkins is a plus • Experience testing Web Applications, Flash/Flex, and Ruby on Rails • Excellent programmer • Passionate. Driven. High achiever - You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence. • Extremely hard working. You should be ready to make the company a priority in your life. • Enjoy diversity and individualism; from flip-flops to foosball, suits to shorts to work. It is about being who you are in our team-oriented, work hard – play hard environment. Role: • Design and develop QA test plans and test cases • Perform all aspects of verification and validation • Help manage and contribute to shared engineering excellence principles to constantly raise the bar of quality of engineering practices and engineering infrastructure. • Analyze, investigate and narrow down the issues uncovered by testing and reported by customers and partners to raise the quality bar on Hotmail releases. • Track bug trends and other metrics and keeping team and test deliverables in sync with development process and deliverables, and maintain a highly productive team over multiple release cycles. • Assess testing areas, determine proper testing needs for ongoing releases, create and manage test plans releases allocating appropriate amount of resources for testing user interface and service features and help with scheduling of the releases. • Drive test planning for releases that would include User Experience testing, end to end functional, error and security testing, stress and performance testing etc, getting any new test cases/plans written as required. • Work with Operations to ensure quality deployment of the service on production environment and help assure a very high level of quality of service. • As necessary, manage vendor and contractor resource engaged locally or remotely on test efforts integrating them as part of the test team.

Ruby on Rails Developers at 6 hot Bay Area start-ups

Title: Ruby on Rails Developers at 6 hot Bay Area start-ups Location: Palo Alto 94306 San Francisco 94109, San Mateo, Los Gatos, San Jose, Redwood City 94121 Salary: Open and flexible depending on experience Benefits: Full Travel: Never Open positions: 13 I am working with six of the fastest growing start-ups in the Bay Area. It is not unusual for these companies to be growing at an annual pace over 700%. All of these positions are due to their growth. These companies are all very well financed, have legendary management teams and are among the fastest growing companies in the USA. They all have a fast paced but casual culture and understand that employees are their most important asset so they treat them that way. They are looking for Junior and Senior developers so salaries will depend on experience but range from $70,000 and $140,000 and all have full benefit packages. This is not a telecommuting position. Qualifications: * 1+ Years Ruby on Rails programming experience (ideally doing interesting things) * Understanding of unit testing * Good production capabilities for HTML / CSS * Some knowledge of Photoshop * Experience with MySQL / SQL programming * Knowledge of Facebook API a plus * Knowledge of Flash programming a plus * Knowledge of NoSQL systems a plus * Detail oriented and analytically minded. * BS computer science / mathematics or equivalent required. Please send your resume to greg (at) hirefighters.com and I will call qualified candidates immediately to tell them more about these opportunities.

Design Engineer

Title: Design Engineer Location: Decatur, IL Duration: 12 Months Summary: • Research and investigate the design, functionality and maintenance of mechanical products, equipment, systems and processes. Education/Experience: • Bachelor's degree in engineering required. • Previous engineering experience required. Skills and Competencies: • Creativity, verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem solving ability. • Team player and detail oriented. • Ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations. • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawing, schematics and computer-generated reports. • Previous experience with computer applications and software related to engineering field. Major Job Duties and Responsibilities: • Research, design, develop, manufacture, and test tools, engines, machines and other mechanical devices. • Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, and manuals to determine time and cost feasibility to complete projects. • Assist drafters in developing the structural design of products using tools, equipment or software. • Responsible for the design of off highway and large mining truck bodies. • Employee will be responsible for taking design from concept to developing detailed Pro/E models, releasing drawings using TeamCenter Workflow, interfacing with process partners, making improvements for cost, quality and manufacturability. • Employee will be responsible for basic engineering design and analysis calculations to determine design feasibility. Required Skills / Qualifications: • Requires bachelor’s degree in an accredited Engineering, Computer Science, or Materials Science curriculum plus 1 to 2 years experience or a masters or doctorate degree. • Requires excellent analytical skills. Desired Skills / Qualifications: • Must have strong problem solving skills, a good mechanical aptitude, and good communications skills. • Experience in large structures design is a plus. • Light fabrications or sheet metal design is also applicable.

HR Analyst

Position: HR Analyst Duration: 5 Month Contract Position Location: Northfield, IL Job Description: • Supports Talent Acquisition metrics by report generation via Excel, compilation of data into usable reports. Skills required – • Advanced Excel skills to create pivot tables and formulas; • solid written/verbal communication skills; strong organizational skills. • Prefer someone familiar with applicant tracking systems (Taleo, Brassring, Peoplesoft, iHire) but not required. • Will be responsible for Chargebacks, reporting etc • 2-5 yrs of analytics / HR metrics background • SAP reporting is a plus

(AJ-3168) - (Job) - Sr. .NET Developer - Dallas, TX

Our Client is looking for a Sr. .NET Developer located in Dallas, TX. This is the Full-Time position and the salary range is DOE. Local candidates are preferred but our client will accept candidates all over the United States, and will pay for the expenses for a face to face interview, which is required. Technology Skills: Mastery level experience with Microsoft .NET framework Mastery level experience with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista and Windows 7 Mastery level experience in working with Windows Registry, Drivers, Libraries, Processes and Services. Advanced knowledge of Windows application installers Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services Application Servers, Web Servers, Security and Encryption Techniques Object-Oriented Modeling, Analysis, Design and Programming Visual Basic, .Net, ASP.Net, C#.Net, Windows SDK, XML, HTML Strong knowledge in COM, ActiveX Controls, GUI Development and Multi-Threading. Experience working with Microsoft SQL Server Databases Database Modeling and Design, Relational Databases, Database Optimization Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio Strong experience in design, development, testing and deployment of Windows based applications using Microsoft Technologies such as .Net Framework Good Communication Skills Ability to plan well and execute in time and within the budget Desire to work in a highly charged environment with high accountability and an all-star team Experience: 6+ years of overall experience with Bachelors in Computer Science Sound knowledge of Software Development Methodologies and Processes Proven and Successful deployment history

Oracle PL/SQL, 10g Developer

We are looking for a highly-skilled programmer who will be responsible for analysis, design, coding, component and assembly testing, documentation, and placing into production all application code supported by the Benefits team. The Office of Information Technology (OIT), supporting the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL), is looking for a Programmer 5 with Skill Category 3 to work on the team supporting the Benefits system. MDOL has been awarded Supplemental Budget Requests for several projects, and we need additional development staff to help us accomplish the work. The projects will involve development in the Unemployment Compensation Benefits system at the MDOL. The Benefits system is a critical legacy system that provides MDOL with the capability to register individuals for unemployment insurance benefits and to disburse those benefits. The Benefits application is programmed in a combination of Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, Unix scripting, and COBOL languages. The Oracle database on which the resource will be working resides in a Windows environment/server; however, the associated batch environment resides on Unix. This will change to Linux during this contract term. The database interacts with other entities, including a Progress dataserver. Additionally, the client is in the process of upgrades, which require them to work in various combinations of database versions, including Oracle 9, 10, and 11. This is technical work involving the development of complex computer programs. Responsibilities will include designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting application programs. PR5 Years of Relevant Experience: 10 plus years Preferred Education: 4-year college degree or equivalent technical study with advanced study preferred. Role Description: All roles specified in PR5 plus the following: • Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems. • Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies. • Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies. • Ability to make best practice recommendations based on past work. • Proven ability to present complex technical constructs to business and non-technical users. • Proven ability to collaborate with business users, project managers, and technical architects. Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience Expertise Rating Programming in Oracle Forms and Reports 6i Required 5 Years Programming in Oracle Forms and Reports 11g Required 4 Years Programming in Oracle PL/SQL Required 6 Years Oracle 10g/Application Developer Required 2 Years Database - Mixed platform (see notes in Complete Description) Required 3 Years Unix environment Highly desired 6 Years User interactions - requirements & design Required 6 Years Experience analyzing and documenting data requirements Required 5 Years Experience mapping intersystem data requirements Required 5 Years Experience developing documentation that will be used for system Required 5 Years Questions Question 1 Position is located in Augusta, Maine. Please confirm your candidate is comfortable with working onsite for the duration of the project. Question 2 There are two positions available. Question 3 Client is open to in person or webcam interview. Which is your candidate available for?

(AJ-3167) - (Job) - .NET Developer - Dallas, TX

Our Client is looking for a .NET Developer located in Dallas, TX. This is the Full-Time position and the salary range is DOE. Local candidates are preferred but our client will accept candidates all over the United States, and will pay for the expenses for a face to face interview, which is required. The .NET Developer will work in conjunction with the Technical Lead and Director of Development in the development of new product suite as well as maintaining the existing product suite Worldwide. The Senior Developer should possess the following skills and experience: Technology Skills: Windows application development using .NET framework C#.NET, ASP.NET, Windows SDK, XML, HTML Windows application installer experience (.NET, InstallShield, etc) Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services Object-Oriented Programming 3rd party open source: WPF, COM, ActiveX Controls is a plus Experience working with Microsoft SQL Server Databases SQL Database Scripting Good Communication Skills Desire to work in a highly dynamic environment with an all-star team Experience: 2-3 years of overall experience with Bachelors in Computer Science Sound knowledge of Software Development Methodologies and Processes Proven and successful career track record