Council on International Educational Exchange

.NET Application Developer

Reports to: Director, Application Development

Location: Portland, ME

Summary of Position

This position is responsible for developing system(s) to support business needs as defined by the current and future business requirements. The incumbent will also be required to integrate existing systems with new system as the business or technical demands evolve. Additionally, the position should constantly be challenged to define areas that will benefit from automation and/or electronic commerce.

Primary Responsibilities

• Designs and Develops proposed software solutions:
• Maps business requirements to a physical model
• Adopts and maintains programming standards to continually improve quality of applications software.
• Ensures that established development methodology is followed.
• Ensures that system, program, and job documentation is complete and current.
• Performs thorough unit and integration testing and acts as QA for other team members when required
• Monitors user acceptance testing as required.
• Evaluates/audits operational applications as requested, and recommend any performance improvements that could be made.
• Performs program design and development activities as required.
• Maintains production applications as required.

Knowledge and Skills

• 5+ years experience with object oriented languages
• Programming experience with relational databases (specifically, Microsoft SQL-Server)
• Experience with object oriented development tools (C#.NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, XML)
• Experience with Agile Development methodologies
• Must be able to work well in a team environment

Due to federal regulations, a background check will be conducted as a condition of employment.

Benefits
CIEE is committed to providing a competitive benefits package for our employees. The benefits package is reviewed and updated annually. The following is a sampling of the benefits you receive at CIEE. Most benefits apply to "regular" employees who work 35 hours or more each week.

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holidays and Vacation
• 403b Retirement Plan with a generous company match
• Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Full service in-house workout facility and locker rooms
• Employee Computer Purchase Program
• Group discount on auto and home insurance

Since 1947, the Council on International Educational Exchange, known as CIEE, has been in pursuit of its mission, "to help people gain understanding, acquire knowledge, and develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world."
CIEE is the leading U.S. non-governmental international education organization. CIEE creates and administers programs that allow high school and university students and educators to study and teach abroad.

Today, CIEE is composed of two interrelated but operationally independent entities based in the Old Port of beautiful Portland, Maine across the street from the a working sea port.

Interested candidates please email a cover letter and resume to cieeresume@ciee.org.  Please put “Application Developer” in the subject line.  We will contact those candidates we would like to meet with to further discuss this exciting opportunity. No phone calls please. Relocation assistance is available.

Director, IT Business Systems Team - Information Technology
Reports to:            Vice President for Information Technology
Location:               Brattleboro, VT 
 
 
General Description: 
The senior member of the IT Business Systems Team, the Director, IT Business
Systems Team is responsible for working with the CIO to set the vision for the
Application Development for the organizations Information Technology. This individual
has demonstrated the ability to analyze and implement business solution using various
application development technologies.
 
Primary Responsibilities:
•         Working with CIO and IT Senior Management team to lead short term and long
term planning for the IT organization
•         Interview, gather, analyze, and produce business requirements based upon
business need within the organization
•         Leads efforts with IT and Business Management to determine best solution
•         Leads IT team members to design, analyze, code, test, implement and
document solutions for business problems
•         Ability to transition IT organization to new application development technologies
•        Maintains and enhances IT solutions for business areas
•         Work with outside vendors to provide support for the organizations Application environment
•         Recruit, lead, coach, and mentor members of the Business System team
•         Perform Project Management functions for the Application Development projects
•         Stay current with major trends and information technology approaches and tools
•         Make recommendation to business area to improve business processes
 
Required Qualifications:
•         BA in related field or equivalent experience.
•         At least 8 – 9 years experience in a similar position.
•         Proven success designing and/or selecting, and implementing application
solutions in a global environment
•         Ability to collaborate with heads of program units to understand their challenges
and implement technology solutions 
•         Knowledge and experience with Microsoft SQL, Business Objects (Crystal
Reports), Coldfusion, and Microsoft  Access.
•         Microsoft .Net experience or demonstrated proficiency in object oriented
languages
•         Understanding and proficiency in building web based applications
•         Ability to demonstrate strong skills in information needs analysis, requirements
creation, development and testing in a Windows environment.
•         Experience working with central corporate MIS systems.
•         Strong organizational skills and excellent attention to detail.
•         Strong interpersonal skills with excellent patience, clarity of communications
and commitment to team approaches, strong leadership and negotiation skills.
 
Desired Qualifications:
•         Relevant experience working in a not-for-profit, educational or international
organization.
•         Knowledge and experience with Windows operating systems and Windows
based programming languages
•         Experience supporting Datatel.
 
Skills:
•         Demonstrated Leadership capability (ability to motivate others to achieve
organization’s goals)
•         Strong Organizational skills and strong goal orientation
•         Strong Analytical Thinking (ability to identify and respond to complex situations)
•         Good Oral Communication (ability to convey and absorb information through
spoken words)
•         Good Written Communication (ability to write clearly and to understand written communications)
•         Strong Teamwork capability (capability to work with others in order to achieve a
common goal)

Contact:
Benjamin J. Scribner
Executive Recruiter
Gallagher Flynn & Company, LLP
(802) 651-7278
bscribner@gfc.com

RESOURCE SYSTEMS GROUP is a multi-disciplinary, employee-owned consulting firm specializing in the planning, analysis, and management of business, infrastructure and natural resources. We serve clients who share our belief that high-quality objective analysis is a prerequisite to resolving complex problems. More than just analysts, scientists, and engineers, we’re communicators – our study results are clear, concise, and directly applicable to a client’s particular questions and challenges. Our solutions are creative and grounded by 20 years of experience with clients as large as federal government agencies and Fortune 500 companies or as small as neighborhood interest groups and local municipalities.  

Senior Associate – Software Development

White River Junction, VT

This position involves working with the Technology Solutions Practice, supporting the firm’s software and analysis needs. The primary focus will be developing fully dynamic web-based solutions from interface to business logic to back end database design. Managing clients’ expectations throughout the project lifecycle is a key responsibility.  We are looking for someone who is organized, analytical, and experienced in delivering best practice solutions to join our team.

·         Minimum bachelor’s degree with emphasis in computer science or a related field

·         Minimum 3 years experience working on large client projects.

·         Demonstrated software development, programming, design and technical presentation skills.

·         Outstanding written and oral communication skills.

·         Practical experience in the following areas:

o    Web Development in HTML and CSS

o    Database programming in SQL

o    Modern object-oriented programming (e.g. C#, VB.Net, Java)

Please send resume and cover letter to Recruiting Director at employment@rsginc.com and indicate Senior Associate Software Development in the subject heading.

Recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” and recipient of the 2007 Dean C. Davis Outstanding Business Award, RSG employees enjoy excellent benefits, flexible hours and opportunities for advancement.

We are an equal-opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Please visit www.rsginc.com for more information on Resource Systems Group.

from KIDSvt.com

Are you an ASP.NET / SQL Server Developer?  Are you looking for more clients?

One or two C# developers needed for a one+ year project with our client in Montpelier.  Experience with C# and Visual Studio needed; knowledge of SQL Server 2005 helpful.  This is a contract position with hourly rate appropriate to experience.  Please send resumes and contact information to Marge Kolkin (recruiter@compass-sys.com) and reference position #719.  No resume is EVER submitted for a position without explicit permission from the candidate.  We do our best to acknowledge all responses. 

I have always said that Mike has a dream job. He gets to play with development tools, blog about them , present on them and make videos about them as his job!

No, Mike is not giving up this dream job (he's also pretty smart!) but they are adding to his team in the U.K.

Check out his blog post that includes a link to the job description.

If I didn't love living in Vermont so much......

From Technical Connection in Burlington:

Technical Connection has been retained to identify candidates for a junior to mid level  C# developer for long term employment.  A big part of this opportunity will be working with Sharepoint web portal development.  Salary and benefits are competitive and interviews are being scheduled now.  We encourage readers of your blog who are considering taking the next step in their career to contact us as soon as possible. 

From TEKsystems 

These jobs are getting listed on thingamajob.com, but not all of them seem to be there yet. Here's a direct link to TEKsystem's listings.

Title                 Software Developer

Location:         Stowe

Number of openings:  3

Responsibilities: 

Software Developers provide the technical expertise to create enhancements, code corrections, and new functionality.   Software Developers fulfill both the support and development programming roles and work in teams with other developers, support, QA and management when appropriate.

Requirements

·      Minimum of 3 years experience developing and supporting software applications in a Windows environment.

·      Four year college degree or equivalent experience – Bachelor’s degree desired.

·      Able to learn and master new technology quickly and improve personal performance through continual self-study.

·      Desire to provide outstanding products and customer service.

·      Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to cope with diversity and complexity in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment.

·      Strong interpersonal and team relationship skills and able to work well individually or as part of a team.

·      Demonstrated understanding of the following: Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server in conjunction with software development.

·      Experience utilizing one or more of the following:  SQL Server 2000/2005, .NET.

·      Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality concerning development products.

·      Detailed knowledge of one or more SMS software products helpful (i.e., two or more years of installation, product management, or systems support experience) or able to thoroughly learn SMS software products.

·      Demonstrated technical writing ability and basic email skills.

·      Extremely detail oriented and dedicated to follow-through in all work with a focus on project quality, completeness, and thoroughness.

Title                 Senior Software Developer

Location:         Stowe

Number of openings:   2

Responsibilities: 

Senior Software Developers provide the technical expertise and leadership to create technical architectures and designs, enhancements, code corrections, and new functionality.   Senior Software Developers fulfill both the support and development programming roles and work in teams with other developers, support, QA and management when appropriate.

Requirements

·      Minimum of 5-7 years experience developing and supporting web based applications in a Windows environment.

·      Four year college degree or equivalent experience – Bachelor’s degree desired.

·      Able to learn and master new technology quickly and improve personal performance through continual self-study.

·      Desire to provide outstanding products and customer service.

·      Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to cope with diversity and complexity in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment.

·      Strong interpersonal and team relationship skills and able to work well individually or as part of a team.

·      Demonstrated understanding of the following: Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server in conjunction with software development.

·      Experience utilizing one or more of the following: SQL Server 2000/2005, .NET.

·      Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality concerning development products.

·      Detailed knowledge of one or more SMS software products helpful (i.e., two or more years of installation, product management, or systems support experience) or able to thoroughly learn SMS software products.

·      Demonstrated technical writing ability and basic email skills.

·      Extremely detail oriented and dedicated to follow-through in all work with a focus on project quality, completeness, and thoroughness.

Contact

      Alicia Ferraro

And they all seemed pretty surprised that there were so many cool creative and tech companies in Vermont who were looking for employees!

I saw on Cairn Cross' blog  (he works for a local VC) that the folks at the entrance of Satruday's Vermont 3.0 event "stopped counting after 1,000"!

Eva Sollberger made an incredible video of the day. Check it out!

QVAULT in Burlington has an opening for an .Net Developer. "We are looking for more of an Entry Level to Associate Level person, but are willing to see and consider a more experienced person if they are a good match."

Skills Required

ASP.NET, C#, Web Services

Job Description

If you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, or a soon to be or recent graduate of a programming oriented curriculum, who wants to work for a great Vermont Owned company, read on!

Qvault is looking for a talented software developer who prefers a fast paced and diverse environment, an individual who is a creative self-starter and desires to be an integral part of a team building a young company.

Required skills:

- Understanding of ASP.NET
- C#
- Web Services

Desirable skills:

- AJAX
- XML
- JavaScript
- SQL Fundamentals (MS SQL platform, management tools, jobs)
- SQL Stored Procedures
- HTML/XHTML
- Web standards and cross-browser/platform delivery
- ColdFusion
- IIS6

About Qvault:

Qvault, Inc., a privately held corporation; develops, hosts and supports web based business intelligence, collaboration and document/content management solutions for professional organizations throughout North America.  Please visit our website at www.Qvault.com.  Qvault's main offices are located in downtown Burlington, Vermont.

Eve Sollberger is a video blogger for Seven Days. She recently visited the new 65,000 square foot office of Dealer.Com, one of vermont's fastest growing companies. DDC builds websites for car dealers around the country and is one of the top in their industry. They were recognized in September by Inc magazine as being one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. DDC is great for Vermont and Vermont has definitely been great for them. Their new facilities are clearly loved by their employees as you can see in Eva's video. There's even a gym (with tennis courts) and an organic cafe.

Check out the video.

There are lots of cool tech companies here. Yesterday's Vermont 3.0 Creative Tech career jam showed that off. I'll be blogging (and linking) more about that PHENOMENALLY SUCCESSFUL event shortly.

(note that RSG is also currently looking for a web developer with less experience required than the position below)

RESOURCE SYSTEMS GROUP is a multi-disciplinary, employee-owned consulting firm specializing in the planning, analysis, and management of business, infrastructure and natural resources. We serve clients who share our belief that high-quality, objective analysis is a prerequisite to resolving complex problems. More than just analysts, scientists, and engineers, we’re communicators – our study results are clear, concise, and directly applicable to a client’s particular questions and challenges. Our solutions are creative and grounded by 20 years of experience with clients as large as federal government agencies and Fortune 500 companies or as small as neighborhood interest groups and local municipalities.

Senior Associate – Software Development
White River Junction, VT or Chicago, IL

This position involves working with the Technology Solutions Practice, supporting the firm’s software and analysis needs. The primary focus will be developing fully dynamic web-based solutions from interface to business logic to back end database design. Managing clients’ expectations throughout the project lifecycle is a key responsibility.  We are looking for someone who is organized, analytical, and experienced in delivering best practice solutions to join our team.

• Minimum bachelor’s degree with emphasis in computer science or a related field
• Minimum 3 years experience working on large client projects.
• Demonstrated software development, programming, design and technical presentation skills.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Practical experience in the following areas:
o Web Development in HTML and CSS
o Database programming in SQL
o Modern object-oriented programming (e.g. C#, VB.Net, Java)

This position may be located either at White River Junction, Vermont or Chicago, Illinois.   Telecommuting from another location will be considered for the right candidate.
Please send resume and cover letter to Recruiting Director at employment@rsginc.com and indicate Senior Associate Software Development in the subject heading.
Recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” and recipient of the 2007 Dean C. Davis Outstanding Business Award, RSG employees enjoy excellent benefits, flexible hours and opportunities for advancement.
We are an equal-opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Please visit www.rsginc.com for more information on Resource Systems Group.

Data Systems has a full-time opening for a good problem solver with a solid programming background and a strong interest in designing, coding and supporting accounting applications.

We have an immediate need for an entry-level programmer but would consider creating a position for the right candidate with more experience in software development or  accounting.

Data Systems is a worker-owned corporation and candidates with an  interest in being a business owner are encouraged to apply.

Job Requirements
Work with senior analysts to design software for new applications, support and enhance existing products written in the fourth generation programming language PRO-IV. We will provide training in our development environment. Other useful skills for this position include experience in accounting, software sales, system administration on Linux, Unix, or Win2000,  database administration, Java, Ruby, PHP, or web design.

Email resumes to datasystems@datasystems.coop

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Pad Print Machinery in East Dorset Vermont

Software Developer’s Dream Job

Here’s your chance become an integral member of a small team now developing an entirely new set of software designs.   Conceive and design software to dynamically create or manipulate graphic image data.  Explore the fascinating real world of digital color management.   Experiment with dithering algorithms for error-reduction in our printing processes.  Conceive and design new software to handle Customer product using robots. 

Our software will control an entirely new line of industrial equipment utilizing piezoelectric, drop-on-demand, ink jet and material deposition printing technologies. 

We are a solid, industrial manufacturing company based in the beautiful Green Mountain state of Vermont, expanding into the rapidly growing frontier of industrial digital ink jet machines.

Experience

And you? You have a minimum 3 or more years experience with a .NET language, or 5 or more years experience with C++ and 1 or more years experience with a .NET language, and experience with development of software for industrial applications.

Additionally, you have the ability to conceive and implement object oriented designs and have demonstrated experience with one or more techniques for communicating and modeling software requirements, component interfaces and software designs (UML, written user scenarios/use cases, design patterns, etc).

Specific experience with any one or more of the following a PLUS:

            -  motion control and related safety logic

            -  development using QNX real time operating system

            -  digital image processing

            -  test driven design/development

            -  design and execution of UI usability studies.

BS in an Engineering discipline or Computer Science a PLUS.  

The job

The software to be developed and maintained will provide image processing, motion control, and ink supply maintenance functions. Over the life of this product line, software will be repeatedly adapted/customized for unique printing and product handling applications.

As part of this job, you will: perform design analyses which identify at least one alternate design and rationale for the final design selection of any new major software functionality to be implemented; implement software solutions consistent with agreed requirements and software design; on occasion ‘bolt together' existing software products as needed (getting incompatible platforms to work together and creating code to link them); utilize a system of source code control (Seapine SCM); continue development of existing systems by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and attend company-sponsored training in order to keep up to date with advances in the Industry as it relates to software design and development, particularly as it relates to the data processing needs of a digital printing business.  

Does this sound like your idea of fun? Then you are the kind of person who will “fit” into the team we are building, and the company you will be a part of. We are a lively, caring group that is dedicated to customer service, quality and teamwork.

For more information contact:

Laura Kwapien, Senior Software Engineer (lkwapien@padprintmachinery.com)

RESOURCE SYSTEMS GROUP is a multi-disciplinary, employee-owned consulting firm specializing in the planning, analysis, and management of business, infrastructure and natural resources. We serve clients who share our belief that high-quality, objective analysis is a prerequisite to resolving complex problems. More than just analysts, scientists, and engineers, we’re communicators – our study results are clear, concise, and directly applicable to a client’s particular questions and challenges. Our solutions are creative and grounded by 20 years of experience with clients as large as federal government agencies and Fortune 500 companies or as small as neighborhood interest groups and local municipalities.  Recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont” for the 2^nd consecutive year and named as one of the “Best Workplaces for Commuters”, RSG employees enjoy excellent benefits, flexible hours and opportunities for advancement. We are an equal-opportunity/affirmative action employer.  Please visit www.rsginc.com for more information on Resource Systems Group. 

Associate – Software Development

White River Junction, VT

This position involves working in the Technology Group, supporting the firm’s software and analysis needs. The primary focus will be developing fully dynamic web-based solutions from interface to business logic to back end database design. We are looking for someone who is organized, resourceful, and analytical to join our team.

·         Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in computer science or a related field

·         Practical experience in the following areas:

o    Web Development in HTML and CSS

o    Database programming in SQL

o    Modern object-oriented programming (e.g. C#, VB.Net, Java)

Please send resume and cover letter to Recruiting Director at employment@rsginc.com and indicate Associate Software Development in the subject heading.

Vertek Corp in Burlington, VT has two software developer positions:

See their careers page for these two jobs and some others as well.

Union Street Media, a leading Vermont web design and development company, is seeking to add a new PHP Programmer to our team. Since 1999, we have developed database-driven web sites focusing on visual appeal, usability, and search engine prominence. The company serves over 300 clients in three primary business areas: real estate, e-commerce, and content-driven sites. Union Street Media is a young, aggressive company requiring its employees to wear many hats.

The PHP Programmer will be responsible for the maintenance and development of our content management system which includes real estate tools and e-commerce. Experience developing and supporting PHP/MySQL content management systems is key. The work will entail building new features and improving existing ones, fixing bugs, and some project management. Sysadmin skills and/or experience with real estate web site development are pluses. The role requires timeliness in project delivery, attention to detail, and a high degree of professionalism. We’re looking for a hard working team player who enjoys working on the web. Those who don’t play well with others need not apply.

The position comes with a host of benefits including health insurance contribution, great work environment in a recently renovated office and access to ski vouchers.

Functions/Responsibilities:
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years professional experience
• Thorough knowledge of PHP, MySQL, CVS, cron, curl, Posfix/Sendmail, shell scripting, basic Unix skills, javascript
• Develop new features for our PHP/MySQL CMS
• Support the real estate site and ecommerce modules
• Strong people skills and team mentality
• Work with all members of the USM team
• Assist tech support staff with bug fixes, diagnosing problems
• Keeping skill set up to date with current technologies

Compensation: Commensurate with experience.

Schedule: This full-time position in our Burlington, VT office is open immediately.

To Apply: Email resumé, cover letter & 3 references to jobs@unionstreetmedia.com . No phone calls please.

Union Street Media is an equal opportunity employer.

Yes, you can have it all! Live in a cool place (Stowe, Vermont) and do the work you love surrounded by smart people!

(While you are at it, check out Springer-Miller, also in Stowe who, like Inntopia, has a sizable and brainy team of programmers.)

Inntopia in Stowe

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS
REQUIRED TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
4+ years experience in a majority of the following technologies

• ASP.NET/C#
• SQL/T-SQL
• XML
• XSL/XPath
• AJAX / JavaScript
• XHTML/DHTML
• COM/DCOM
• SOAP/Web Services

SOFTWARE TOOLS
Familiarity with the at least 2 of the following development applications:

• Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005
• XMLSpy
• Visio

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Ability to design, develop and maintain software on Microsoft .NET platform.
• Ability to design and develop software in a group or independently.
• Comfort with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources.
• Self-managing, self-motivated learner with good written and oral communication skills.

ADDITIONAL BENEFICIAL SKILLS

• Travel/hospitality industry experience
• Experience with high-volume transactional accounting systems (accounts receivable and accounts payable)
• Experience with complex pricing and commission structures
• Experience with security protocols (i.e. PCI Compliance and data encryption standards)
• Experience with software development process management.
• Experience developing multi-lingual web applications.

Email resume to lisa@inntopia.com

Junior Software Engineer / Product Support

Telecommute/Virtual Team – Burlington, VT area

Excellent compensation package including 401k plan and insurance benefits.  CONIX Systems, Inc. designs, develops and maintains software that creates new workflow options and improves operational efficiency and customer service for major banks and service providers.

This virtual team (home-based) telecommute position will be responsible for supporting and maintaining solutions for Windows and Web-based environments using the Microsoft.NET Framework (C#), Visual C++ and SQL Server 2000/2005.  This individual will work with existing client support staff in handling customer support issues related to these technologies. The ideal candidate will also train the existing client support staff to increase their technical expertise. This is a prime opportunity for advancement within the com­pany.

Required skills/experience include:  Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; knowledge of .NET (2.0 preferred), SQL Server 2000/2005; clear understanding of object oriented design and programming; associate's degree in Computer Science or related field; access to a cable or DSL broadband ISP (no satellite); and resides in the Burlington, VT area (for periodic meetings).  CONIX supports its technical staff with a complete home office/development environment including furniture, computers, printers, phones and internet connectivity.  All engineers within CONIX telecommute from home-based offices with VPN access to corporate servers and mainframes.

Headquartered in Manchester, Vermont, CONIX offers an excellent compensation package and the opportunity to work in an environment where your contributions are recognized.  Please send resumes to JOBS@conix.com.

CONIX is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Two job openings at Competitive Computing:

Contact: jobs@competitive.com

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST / PROJECT LEAD

We are looking for a highly-motivated, results-oriented Senior Business Analyst/Project Lead who will be responsible for delivery of software solutions for our clients. To deliver best practice technical solutions and business value to our clients, this position requires demonstrated leadership skills in IT project management as well as a personality that thrives in a continually changing technology landscape.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with the ability to work on a variety of assignments with people at all levels of the client’s organization, leading business/system requirements analysis and application development for several large client projects. Managing clients’ expectations and internal team performance throughout the project lifecycle is a core responsibility. The successful candidate also will need to build strong partnerships across those groups while acting as a key liaison between the technical and business members of both internal and client teams.