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Registration is now open for the 12th Pattern
Languages of Programming (PLoP) Conference.

September 7th through 10th
Allerton Park in Monticello, IL.
http://hillside.net/plop/2005/registration.html


The focus at PLoP is on learning, discussion and
reflection about patterns. The conference offers a
variety of workshops that allow you to learn about
patterns, to receive feedback on your own patterns,
and to discuss patterns with fellow pattern
enthusiasts.

Aspects of PLoP 2005 highlighted below:
Invited talks by Doug Schmidt and Ralph Johnson,
Focus Groups, including one on Leading Workshops with
Richard Gabriel,
Pre-PLoP Bootcamp,
Where to go for more info:
http://hillside.net/plop/2005

This year PLoP will host three specially invited
talks:

Doug Schmidt will offer a talk entitled
"Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: Patterns for
Concurrency and Distributed Systems", as we near the
10th year of the first POSA book.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the "Gang of Four"
book, Ralph Johnson and Brian Foote will muse about
refactoring the GOF patterns, especially the
Creational patterns space.  And additionally, Johnson
will preview the GoF's plans for their long awaited /
anticipated sequel to the legendary Design Patterns
book.

A 3rd special talk also by Doug will look at "Reifying
Patterns for Distributed Systems in Modeling Tools",
which will look at Model Driven design and its use to
reify patterns for product-line architectures.

PLoP 2005 continues the tradition of Focus Groups
where people with common interests come together to
discuss patterns and pattern-related topics.  To
highlight just one of these Focus Groups:  Richard
Gabriel and Linda Rising are planning a Focus Group to
look at more in-depth, more active pattern Writers'
Workshop leadership for the future. Information on
this and the other Focus Groups is on the web

And for the second year in a row there will be a
pre-PLoP Bootcamp led by Linda Rising and Bob Hanmer
to guide patterns newcomers into patterns, pattern
writing and preparation for PLoP.  Only a few seats
remain.

For more information about anything at PLoP, please
visit http://hillside.net/plop/2005

Paul Adamczyk
PLoP 2005 Conference Chair,
[padamczy (at) uiuc.edu]

Bob Hanmer
PLoP 2005 Program Chair
[hanmer (at) acm.org]

P.S. If you think that this conference may be of
interest to colleagues, friends or communities to
which you belong, please forward on this email. Thank
you.


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There should be tons of discussions on www.TheServerSide.com.

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> If anyone knows of any online discussion boards or communities that
> discuss design patterns, I'd appreciate if you'd share it.  At the
> moment I can't get in contact with other parties who are interested or
> experienced in design patterns.
>
> Thanks...
> Carlton

Hi folks... I am getting started with patterns and I'm interested in
doing whatever it is gets done on this group.   I will be living in
Atlanta starting in August.

If anyone knows of any online discussion boards or communities that
discuss design patterns, I'd appreciate if you'd share it.  At the
moment I can't get in contact with other parties who are interested or
experienced in design patterns.

Thanks...
Carlton

Dear All,

This is a reminder that the submission deadline for
PLoP'05 is approaching.  Please note that we have
extended the deadline to Sunday, May 15.

For more details, please visit
http://hillside.net/plop/2005/

Regards,


Paul Adamczyk
Conference Chair, PLoP 2005




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PLoP’05
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Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois

September 7-10, 2005

This year's conference will continue PLoP's rich
tradition
of combining the best technical content and solid
written
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This is going to be an exciting PloP!

May 1
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your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@..., along with
your expected rate, availability and contact details.

Job Details:

Duration:4+ months
Location: Atlanta, GA

Job Description: Experienced WebSphere System Administrator to provide technical
leadership role in web enabling of legacy applications. Acts as a subject matter
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> How do people on the list feel about getting these job opening emails?  Do
> you want to continue to get them sent to the list, or would you rather not
> see them?

I like seeing them.

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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:09:35 -0400, David Deriso <dderiso@...> wrote:
> How do people on the list feel about getting these job opening emails?  Do
> you want to continue to get them sent to the list, or would you rather not
> see them?

How do people on the list feel about getting these job opening emails?  Do
you want to continue to get them sent to the list, or would you rather not
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rajesh [mailto:rajesh@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:55 PM
To: atlanta-dpsg@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [atlanta-dpsg] DB2 DBA needed for a 9+ months project in Atlanta,
GA.
Importance: High


Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below
described position. If you are best fit for this position, please respond
ASAP by emailing your updated resume as a word document to
rajesh@..., along with rate, available date and contact
details.

Job Details:


Duration: 9 months
Location: Atlanta, GA
Rate: Max $50 on W-2

Job Description:

Consultant will work with a team of DBA's to support and provide backup in a
Development & Production environment across several clients' projects.

Required Skills: Mainframe Database Administrator requiring a minimum of
five (5) years of systems development experience which included two (2)
years of experience as a DBA on a large database application using a
teleprocessing monitor and system security.

Experience in the following applications: IBM 93XX (3 years)CICS (3
years)(Knowlegeable in concept & flow)COBOL II (3 years) (Knowledgeable in
concept & flow)DB/2 (Expert in the design of relational database, 4+
years)File Aid (2+ years)TSO (4+ years)VSAM (2+ years)DB2 Explain (4+
years)Platinum Utilities (2+ years)IDCAMS (2+ years)TMONDB2 (2
years)QMF/SPUFI (4+ years)(Knowledge in batch and online
usage/reporting)Technical Writing (3 + years) Communication/interpersonal
skills (2+ years)

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...





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We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position. If you are best fit for this position, please respond ASAP by emailing
your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@..., along with
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Job Details:

Duration: 9 months
Location: Atlanta, GA
Rate: Max $50 on W-2

Job Description:

Consultant will work with a team of DBA's to support and
provide backup in a Development & Production environment across several clients'
projects.

Required Skills: Mainframe Database Administrator requiring a minimum of
five (5) years of systems development experience which included two (2)
years of experience as a DBA on a large database application using a
teleprocessing monitor and system security.

Experience in the following applications: IBM 93XX (3 years)CICS (3
years)(Knowlegeable in concept & flow)COBOL II (3 years)
(Knowledgeable in concept & flow)DB/2 (Expert in the design of relational
database, 4+ years)File Aid (2+ years)TSO (4+ years)VSAM (2+ years)DB2 Explain
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years)QMF/SPUFI (4+ years)(Knowledge in batch and online
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Communication/interpersonal skills (2+ years)

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position. If you are best fit for this position, please respond ASAP by emailing
your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@..., along with
rate, available date and contact details.

Job Details:

Duration: 6+ months
Location: Atlanta, GA.

Job description:

Client would like to create and isolated database for the Ecommerce Team.  It
will be a clustered environment with failover capabilities.

Requires 6 years of Oracle experience (DBA Preferred).  This person must have
implemented a Oracle Clustering Solution or worked in a Oracle Clustering
environment(Must) for more than 2 years.

Required skills include Oracle installation , Oracle 9i or later  (eventually
moving towards 10g),   Relational database design , ER diagrams , Tuning SQL ,
Explain plan , Performance tuning , Import/Export , Backup and Recovery , Oracle
Clustering Solutions Implementation (VERY IMPORTANT ,  Replication/Advanced
Replication (VERY IMPORTANT) , Conflict resolution (VERY IMPORTANT) , RAC /Data
Guard (VERY IMPORTANT) , Upgrades and patchs , JDBC/ODBC , Unix (Solaris) , 
Linux (Oracle on Linux) , Shell (csh, bash, ksh) , UNICODE .

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position. If you are best fit for this position, please respond ASAP by emailing
your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@..., along with
rate, available date and contact details.

Job Details:

Duration:3-6 months
Location: Atlanta, GA.

Java (J2EE) Developer

mid-to-senior level Java (J2EE) developer to participate in the architecture
and actual development of a new J2EE  mission critical business application.
Primary responsibilities include working with other team members to
understanding the unique requirements of the application, review the
existing design and architecture to ensure they meet requirements in terms
of stability, scalability, security and best practices in web application
development, develop detailed design for assigned areas of the application, and
actual development with development-level testing of assigned areas of the
application. This role will require strong object-oriented design and
development skills, relational database application development skills, web
application architecture and presentation framework skills.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years experience in Java object-oriented design & development.
Minimum 3 years experience in J2EE application architecture, design, &
development, with primary emphasis on backend & infrastructure.
Experience with EJB, JSP, XML, Struts.
Experience with Linux, JBOSS, MS SQL Server, Eclipse IDE, XDoclet, and JUnit a
strong plus.
Full lifecycle development experience.

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position. If you are best fit for this position, please respond ASAP by emailing
your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@..., along with
rate, available date and contact details.

Job Details:

Duration:4-6 months
Location: Columbus, GA.

Looking for a programmer to assist with support of the current Life 70/New
Business system for an ongoing assignment. Potential candidates, at a minimum,
has expertise including the ability to provide the Project Manager with
corresponding findings, alternatives, recommendations, assumptions and cost
drivers related to these areas:

1)  Excellent troubleshooting skills and working knowledge of the debugging
utilities such as Xpeditor for Online and Batch.
2)  Primary review of IR's , identifying IR's of higher priority/impact and
distribution of IR's identified to various team members.
3)  The candidate must have strong analytical skills and must be able to work
well in a team environment.
4)  The candidate should have excellent communication skills  - both written and
oral.

·  Application Knowledge:
     Life 70 experience a must Insurance Industry experience is a must.
·  Programming Skill Set:
     Cobol, Assembler, JCL, Command level CICS

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position.If you are best fit for the below position, please respond ASAP by
emailing your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@...,
along with rate, available date and contact details.

Job Details:

Location: Atlanta, GA.

Duration:  8+ months

Job Description:

  • Provides analysis, definition, and direction to computer applications related
development and maintenance activities.
• Ensures correct business functionality, requirements, and industry standards
are addressed within the computer application.
• Develops detailed business user requirements, system documentation, workflow
procedures.
• This position will perform the following:
o Review Technical Documents.
o Collect, develop, analyze, and edit Business Process Diagrams.
o Interview Business Users & Subject Matter Experts.
o Document and organize findings into appropriate format.

Required Skills:

Must have demonstrated skills in the following:
• High level of computer literacy with spreadsheets, word processing, and
database software and/or business systems (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project,
VISIO).
• Ability to understand concepts governing relational database structures, and
user reporting/query tools.
• Ability to understand concepts governing software development processes.
• Well developed communication skills – oral, written, listening. Good
analytical and negotiation skills, and close attention to detail.
• Must have excellent leadership, interpersonal, and motivation skills.
• Must be a team player and be able to adjust to change and cope with
bureaucratic processes inherent to governmental agencies.

Minimum Years of experience needed for required skills: 3 – 5 Years
Preferred Skills: •Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Technology, or
Analytical Techniques. Familiar with Business Processes Reengineering concepts
and methods.

What role will the consultant have: IT Business Analyst
What phase of the project will the consultant be involved in: Initiation,
Planning, Design, Development and Implementation
Team Size: 0-5

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position.If you are best fit for the below position, please respond ASAP by
emailing your updated resume as a word document to rajesh@...,
along with rate, available date and contact details.

Job Details:

Location: Atlanta, GA.

Duration:  4+ months

Job Description:

The mission of the Application Management group is to manage the PeopleSoft
Financials and HRMS applications. We are looking for an Oracle Database
Administrator that will augment our team of Database Administrators.
Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining several
databases; establishing policies and procedures pertaining to the management,
security, maintenance, and use of the PeopleSoft application databases; and
training employees in database management and use. Will perform software
installations, database performance tuning, capacity planning, and database
monitoring. Assist in the development of logical and physical database models.
Provide technical support to development team members. Manage and support the
Oracle Production databases and related structures. Handle the technical aspects
of one or more databases including 24X7 availability/reliability. Will support
multiple servers and multiple databases.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Reviews, develops, and designs data models using standard diagramming
techniques, in conjunction with application development teams; creates logical
data models and translates into physical database structures that integrate with
existing or proposed database structures.
2. Monitors relational databases to optimize database performance, resource use,
and physical implementations of databases; addresses a variety of database
integration issues including migration between disparate databases, integration,
maintenance/conversion, capacity planning issues, and new applications.
3. Maintains development, test, and production RDBMS environments.
4. Monitors and maintains database security and database software, in
cooperation with data security administrators.
5. Provides advice to applications programmers in the effective use of database
languages; advises on troubleshooting, exception processing needs, and other
data management issues.
6. Maintains availability and integrity of databases through multiple access
schemes; facilitates sharing of common data by overseeing proper key and index
management and data dictionary maintenance.
7. May evaluate and recommend testing and evaluation of new procedures,
software, and hardware.
8. Monitors and manages database backups, logs, and journals; installs,
maintains, and upgrades database software; restores and/or recovers data as
required.
9. Creates, procures and maintains various database related documents such as
manuals and programmers handbooks.
10. May provide 24 hour on-call support.
11. Maintains a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment,
and/or systems.
12. Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
• Knowledge of current technological developments/trends in area of expertise.
• Ability to interpret data models and to develop database structures.
• Ability to use standard diagramming techniques to design and develop computer
data models.
• Ability to implement and troubleshoot programming changes and modifications.
• Ability to program, configure, manage, and maintain the operation of complex
relational databases.
• Ability to develop and manipulate large, complex data sets.
• Knowledge of computer and/or network security systems, applications,
procedures, and techniques.
• Knowledge of data integrity methods and techniques.
• Technical writing skills.
• Ability to perform acceptance testing on computer systems, applications, and
hardware.
• Ability to install, maintain, modify, and upgrade database software.
• Ability to operate on a scheduled 24-hour on-call basis.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to professional personnel
in area of expertise.

Required Skills:

Minimum 4+ years of Oracle DBA experience, of which 2 years as PeopleSoft DBA.
6+ years of IT experience preferably in a Sun Solaris environment
Oracle 8/9i Experience
Experience administering PeopleSoft 7 and 8.x Oracle databases
Knowledge of Unix Shell Scripting
Must have experience on both PeopleSoft Financial and HR databases.
Must be familiar with PeopleSoft Schemas/objects.
Experienced with PeopleSoft SQL code tuning.
Experience with large databases ( Atleast 200 Gigabytes )
Experience with RMAN software
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Strong problem solving skills.

Minimum Years of experience needed for required skills: 8
Preferred Skills: Experience in OLAP and Data Warehousing database architectures
is a plus
Experience with prior PeopleSoft Application Upgrades is a Plus
Experience with EMC SNAP, time finder and SRDF software is a plus
Experience with Control M scheduling Software is a Plus.

What role will the consultant have: Database Administrator
What phase of the project will the consultant be involved in: In all phases (
Design, Development, Test )
Team Size: 11-15

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below described
position. If you are best fit for the below mentioned position, please respond
ASAP by emailing your updated resume as a word document to
rajesh@..., along with rate, work status, available date and
contact details.

Job Details:

Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration:  6+ months (expecting go beyond 6 months )

Job Description:

The Software Developer will serve as a project resource with the client's Portal
Office and have the responsibility of working with a 3rd party Vignette
Professional Services implementation team. This includes working with the
defined project team to design, develop, test and implement enhancements to the
client Vignette Content Management version 7.3.0.3+ application and the Vignette
Application Portal version 7.0+.
The selected candidate must have expert knowledge of web-based technologies, be
able to work with a diverse project team, and work in a highly visible and
changing project environment with aggressive timelines.

The selected candidate will be responsible for:
- Ensuring technical architecture and programming standards are adhered to
throughout the project
- Working with a diverse team of client's IT personnel to define system
requirements and detailed design documentation.
- Following a project schedule and assignments as assigned by the responsible
Project Manager and  Lead Developer
- Reporting status to the responsible Project Manager and the verbally and in
writing
- Evaluating, designing, developing, integrating, testing and implementing
system enhancements to the client's portal in the Vignette Content Management
version 7.3.0.3+ application and the Vignette Application Portal version 7.0+
environments using the Vignette Dynamic Portal product.
- Evaluating, designing, developing, integrating, testing and implementing
system enhancements to the client's portal using J2EE or .NET as required.
- Fostering a strong working relationship and communication level with client's
IT staff, management,representatives, program staff and the 3rd party vendor

Required Skills: · Two years hands-on portal/content management system
development experience using Vignette V6+/V7+, MCM, Epicentric Foundation
Server/Vignette Application Portal (VAP)
· Two years developing scaleable, reusable UI portal/content management
templates using CGI/TCL/JSP/ASP, XSL/XSLT, HTML, and CSS
· Three years of programming and/or systems analysis experience of which at
least two years must have included programming techniques and software design,
building distributed systems architecture or middleware, or performing object
oriented analysis/design (OOA/D)
· Completion of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information
Systems, Software Engineering, or similar field from an accredited four-year
college or university
· Two + years full project lifecycle experience in implementing web based
systems
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Two + years specific solution experience integrating Enterprise Information
Portals and legacy systems Integration

Minimum Years of experience needed for required skills: Two years unless
otherwise noted

Preferred Skills: · Experience developing custom display templates, content
items, and VCMS 7.x customizations using CDS or Vignette Dynamic Portal.
· Experience defining project/software release scope, developing design
documentation, defining work-breakdown tasks, estimating level-of effort
· Experience deploying, configuring or tuning SunONE Application Server, Sun
Java System Application Server, or Apache HTTP Server
· Experience building web applications using Java technology including JSP, Java
Servlets, and J2EE
· Sun Java certification
· Experience with database modeling & querying using SQL with particular focus
using Oracle 9+

Experience developing in Windows & Unix environments

What role will the consultant have: Software Developer
What phase of the project will the consultant be involved in: Full SDLC
Team Size: 6-10

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below
described position. If you are best fit for the below mentioned position,
please respond ASAP by emailing your updated resume as a word document to
rajesh@..., along with rate, work status, available date and
contact details.

Job Details:

Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration:  11+ months (expecting go beyond 11 months )

Job Description:

Under direction, responsible for all application systems analysis, planning,
and programming activities including business requirements and feasibility
studies, time and cost estimates, the development and implementation of new
or revised Application systems and programs. Work also entails assisting in
projecting software and hardware requirements, assigning personnel to
various projects and directing their activities; reviewing and evaluating
their work and preparation of performance reports; conferring with and
advising subordinates on administrative policies and procedures, technical
problems, priorities and methods. Work involves consulting with personnel in
other client's departments, as well as, in user organizations and other
State agencies, to coordinate activities. Preparation of activity and
periodic progress reports regarding the activities of the Application
Development division is a requirement. Reports to the Deputy Superintendent
of Information Technology in discharging these responsibilities.

Position Responsibilities Include the following.

• Plans, assigns, supervises, and reviews the work of project leaders,
application systems analysts and programmers in the design, development,
implementation, modification, and maintenance of computer application
systems.
• Coordinates systems and programming requirements with the other divisions
of the department.
• Evaluates application system efficiency and performance and makes
recommendations to provide the best cost performance.
• Participates with upper management in policy-making decisions.
• Conducts formal and informal training programs for application systems
analysts and programming personnel.
• Identifies and evaluates the impact of proposed or requested major changes
to existing application systems.
• Reviews, evaluates, and schedules user agency's requests for systems and
programming services.
• Develops, implements, and enforces application systems analysis and
programming standards and procedures.
• Interviews and evaluates the technical qualifications of consultants and
prospective Application Development personnel.

Required Skills:

Must have detailed working knowledge of software design techniques,
including object-oriented analysis and design techniques.
Must have working knowledge and experience in the full Life Cycle
Development and documentation of a Project, to include requirements
gathering and user interface design.
Must have 2+ years working knowledge and experience using the following
software:
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.

Must have 4+ years working knowledge and experience using:
Oracle9i, SQL, VB, ASP, HTML, Java Scripting, TrueDB Grid 6.0,
ActiveReports, Access Reports, WinNT, Win2000, MTS, COM and COM+.
Must have 6 years minimum experience with information systems design,
development, and maintenance projects.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each
essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are
representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques used
in information technology design and development including, but not limited
to, .NET framework, J2EE, PLSQL, Oracle 9x, JAVA, MS_SQL, Rational Unified
Process.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC concepts, both Waterfall and Iterative.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the concepts, characteristics, and capabilities
of large-scale information technology applications.
• Considerable knowledge of current developments and techniques in
requirements and work-flow studies, application system analysis and
programming.
• Considerable knowledge of all major application systems used in the
client's place.
• Considerable knowledge of the principles and practices of administration
and effective supervision of a highly skilled staff.
• Past referenceable experience in managing P&L creation, expenditures and
budget preparation
• Ability to comprehend, analyze, and research problems of a complex nature
and make judgment decisions as to their best solution.
• Ability to organize and plan work effectively.
• Ability to respond quickly to emergency situations that involve
considerable stress.
• Ability to manage resources in which human error could result in
monumental problems in terms of loss of resources involving time and/or
money because of the vast speed of the computer.
• Ability to manage several projects at one time.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents and technical
procedures.
• Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally
and in writing.
• Ability to write reports, routine business correspondence and prepare
presentations including the ability to prepare business charts and graphs.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from
managers, clients and customers.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral,
diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete
variables in situations where limited standardization exists.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to use a
computer. Considerable knowledge of PC operations and software (Word
processing and spreadsheet) are required. Good typing skills are also
required.

Competency
To perform the job successfully, an individual must demonstrate the
following competencies.
• Leadership – Creates, maintains, and encourages a professional climate by
leading by example and providing an environment of professional growth
through coaching and mentoring. Sets the direction, leads from the front.
• Analytical – Synthesizes complex or diverse information; Collects and
researches data; Uses intuition and experience to complement data; Designs
work flows and procedures.
• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner;
Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions.
• Customer Service - Manages difficult or emotional customer situations;
Responds promptly to customer needs; Meets commitments.
• Oral Communication - Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or
negative situations; listens and gets clarification; Responds well to
questions; Participates in meetings.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; Edits work for
spelling and grammar; Varies writing style to meet needs; Presents numerical
data effectively; Able to read and interpret written information.
• Change Management - Develops workable implementation plans; Communicates
changes effectively.
• Delegation - Delegates work assignments; Matches the responsibility to the
person; Sets expectations and monitors delegated activities.
• Managing People - Includes staff in planning, decision-making,
facilitating and process improvement; Makes self available to staff;
Provides regular performance feedback; Develops subordinates' skills and
encourages growth; Improves processes, products and services.
• Quality Management - Looks for ways to improve and promote quality;
Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
• Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures; Completes
administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports organization's goals
and values.
• Strategic Thinking - Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals;
Adapts strategy to changing conditions.
• Judgment - Displays willingness to make decisions; Exhibits sound and
accurate judgment; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Includes
appropriate people in decision-making process; Makes timely decisions.
• Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time
efficiently; Organizes or schedules other people and their tasks.
• Professionalism - Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under
pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their
status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions; Follows through
on commitments.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to
improve and promote quality.
• Quantity - Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner;
Strives to increase productivity; Works quickly.
• Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Uses
equipment and materials properly.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages
competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation;
Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time.
• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction;
Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments.
• Initiative - Seeks increased responsibilities; Takes independent action.

Education and/or Other Requirements
• Completion of a Bachelor’s degree from a college or university of
recognized standing with course work in Management Information Systems,
Business Administration, or related fields.
• Ten (10) years of demonstrable Application Systems Analysis and
programming experience, six of which were at the level of an Application
Development Manager, Project Manager, Project Leader, Senior Systems Analyst
or equivalent positions.

Minimum Years of experience needed for required skills: see above
What role will the consultant have: Application Development Manager
What phase of the project will the consultant be involved in: Full lifecycle
Team Size: 6-10


Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below
described position. If you are best fit for the below mentioned position,
please respond ASAP by emailing your updated resume as a word document to
rajesh@..., along with rate, work status, available date and
contact details.

Job Details:

Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration:  11+ months (expecting go beyond 11 months )

Job Description:

Job Description: The Lead Data Architect will re-engineer and maintain the
client's enterprise wide view of the data. This individual will analyze
information requirements specified by the user community and design the
required data structures to support those requirements.

Major Position Responsibilities:

• Will review all current operational data structures and recommend
optimizations and reconfigurations as warranted.
• Develop and maintain all standards pursuant to data structures and models.
• Work with clients, business analysts, technical staff, and project team
members to plan, design, develop, implement, and enhance applications,
scripts, procedures, and metadata for relational databases.
• Work with Database Administrators to migrate complex large scale
applications into system test and production environments.
• Work closely with 3rd party vendors to integrate selected packages.
• Recommend and evaluate new tools and methodologies.
• Will provide full-life cycle architectural guidance and ensure quality
technical deliverables.
• Will serve as the data technical strategy expert and will lead the
creation of all technical requirements and design deliverables.
• Develop schemas for all business applications.

Required Skills: • Eight (8) or more years of experience as a Data Architect
in an RDMS, MDDBs environment
• Four (4) or more years of experience as a Data Warehouse data architect
• Solid, quantifiable experience in:
o Metadata standards
o Data modeling
§ ERD
§ Dimensional
o Use of modeling tools
§ ERWin
§ Oracle
§ Rational Rose
o SQL/PL/SQL
o Participation in at least three (3) large Enterprise Data Warehouse
projects in the role of Lead Data Architect
o Oracle and MS SQL
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience in XML standards and Education data transfer standards
• Experience in Web based Architecture

Minimum Years of experience needed for required skills: see above
Preferred Skills: • Experience in Middleware Technologies EAI and ETL tools
• Experience in Student Information Systems
• Previous JAD experience
• Experience in OLAP tools

What role will the consultant have: Lead Data Architect
What phase of the project will the consultant be involved in: lifecycle
Team Size: 0-5

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Dear Friend,

We are in the process of identifying suitable candidates for the below
described position. If you are best fit for the below mentioned position,
please respond ASAP by emailing your updated resume as a word document to
rajesh@..., along with rate, work status, available date and
contact details.

Job Details:

Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration:  6+ months (expecting go beyond 6 months )

Job Description:

The Software Developer will serve as a project resource with the client's
Portal Office and have the responsibility of working with a 3rd party
Vignette Professional Services implementation team. This includes working
with the defined project team to design, develop, test and implement
enhancements to the client Vignette Content Management version 7.3.0.3+
application and the Vignette Application Portal version 7.0+.
The selected candidate must have expert knowledge of web-based technologies,
be able to work with a diverse project team, and work in a highly visible
and changing project environment with aggressive timelines.

The selected candidate will be responsible for:
- Ensuring technical architecture and programming standards are adhered to
throughout the project
- Working with a diverse team of client's IT personnel to define system
requirements and detailed design documentation.
- Following a project schedule and assignments as assigned by the
responsible Project Manager and  Lead Developer
- Reporting status to the responsible Project Manager and the verbally and
in writing
- Evaluating, designing, developing, integrating, testing and implementing
system enhancements to the client's portal in the Vignette Content
Management version 7.3.0.3+ application and the Vignette Application Portal
version 7.0+ environments using the Vignette Dynamic Portal product.
- Evaluating, designing, developing, integrating, testing and implementing
system enhancements to the client's portal using J2EE or .NET as required.
- Fostering a strong working relationship and communication level with
client's IT staff, management,representatives, program staff and the 3rd
party vendor

Required Skills: · Two years hands-on portal/content management system
development experience using Vignette V6+/V7+, MCM, Epicentric Foundation
Server/Vignette Application Portal (VAP)
· Two years developing scaleable, reusable UI portal/content management
templates using CGI/TCL/JSP/ASP, XSL/XSLT, HTML, and CSS
· Three years of programming and/or systems analysis experience of which at
least two years must have included programming techniques and software
design, building distributed systems architecture or middleware, or
performing object oriented analysis/design (OOA/D)
· Completion of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer
Information Systems, Software Engineering, or similar field from an
accredited four-year college or university
· Two + years full project lifecycle experience in implementing web based
systems
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Two + years specific solution experience integrating Enterprise
Information Portals and legacy systems Integration

Minimum Years of experience needed for required skills: Two years unless
otherwise noted

Preferred Skills: · Experience developing custom display templates, content
items, and VCMS 7.x customizations using CDS or Vignette Dynamic Portal.
· Experience defining project/software release scope, developing design
documentation, defining work-breakdown tasks, estimating level-of effort
· Experience deploying, configuring or tuning SunONE Application Server, Sun
Java System Application Server, or Apache HTTP Server
· Experience building web applications using Java technology including JSP,
Java Servlets, and J2EE
· Sun Java certification
· Experience with database modeling & querying using SQL with particular
focus using Oracle 9+

Experience developing in Windows & Unix environments

What role will the consultant have: Software Developer
What phase of the project will the consultant be involved in: Full SDLC
Team Size: 6-10

Pls send resume ASAP, for an immediate interview.

Regards,

Rajesh G.
Sr.Technical Recruiter
IT Solutions Inc.
www.itcsolutions.com
Email: rajesh@...

Yes, I am interested. My name is Linda Fan.
I work at TRX. My emailis linda.fan@...

Thanks!

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> Several authors are finishing up a manuscript for an
> upcoming book
> tentatively entitled: Enterprise SOA which discusses
> at an advanced level:
> Component Based Development, Registries, XML,
> Service Oriented Architectures
> and other topics.
>
> Interested in employees of Fortune 500 enterprises
> (not consultants) to
> provide feedback on manuscript in progress.
>
>
> If interested, drop me a note off list including
> your name, title and
> employer using NON-FREE email account (no hotmail,
> yahoo, etc) as we will
> send you an attachment that exceeds the size limits
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Several authors are finishing up a manuscript for an upcoming book tentatively entitled: Enterprise SOA which discusses at an advanced level: Component Based Development, Registries, XML, Service Oriented Architectures and other topics.

Interested in employees of Fortune 500 enterprises (not consultants) to provide feedback on manuscript in progress.


If interested, drop me a note off list including your name, title and employer using NON-FREE email account (no hotmail, yahoo, etc) as we will send you an attachment that exceeds the size limits

If there are a few of you out there lurking that would like to get this group going again and go through the patterns like has been done 2 or 3 times before here in Atlanta, speak up. Someone will have to take charge to guage interest, select a meeting location and time, and make it happen. This is a self-organizing group.

Someone who has done it before will show you how to get started. In the links section you'll see the guide we've used...
     A Learning Guide To Design Patterns
     Very informative link on how to go about studying design patterns with a study group
     http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/learning.html <http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/learning.html> 

Regards,

Andrew Fuqua, former atlanta-dpsg member

     
      -----Original Message-----
      From: Joe Bonds [mailto:joe@...]
      Sent: Thu 4/22/2004 3:33 PM
      To: atlanta-dpsg@yahoogroups.com
      Cc:
      Subject: Re: [atlanta-dpsg] Are we still active here?
     
     
      I believe the Design Patterns Study Group has completed its study.  I do not think it is still active



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me too


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To: atlanta-dpsg@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [atlanta-dpsg] Are we still active here?
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:34:39 -0700 (PDT)

I still get the emails



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