The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) improves educational results for children, youth, and adults by providing research and development assistance in delivering equitable, high-quality educational programs. NWREL is a private, nonprofit corporation which has served the Northwest region since 1966 as its Regional Educational Laboratory under contract with the U. S. Department of Education, as well as other federal, state, and local agencies and organizations.

This position contributes to NWREL by developing web-based applications that advance the goals, purposes, and objectives of NWREL's work.

DUTIES

• Design, code, program, and build advanced Web-based applications to support online learning and distance support efforts.
• Troubleshoot, update, and maintain Web-based applications.
• Develop, in collaboration with staff, effective and interactive web applications and technologies that support internal and external communication as well as online learning opportunities.
• Provide technical support in the use of Web-based applications such as Flash to both internal and external clients.
• Train and assist other NWREL staff in the use of Web-based applications such as Flash.
• Support and contribute to visual design work for both Web-based and print-based products
• Perform other related duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education/Training: Bachelor of Science degree or two years directly related experience
• Experience: The successful applicant should have the following skills, knowledge, and abilities
  • One year of programming experience with Web-based applications as well as experience with the design of Web-based and print-based products.
  • Knowledge of computer programming theory and techniques including MySQL, ActionScript, JavaScript, and C++.
  • Proficient with multimedia software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash
  • Ability to work with others professionally to produce materials of high quality content and aesthetic design
  • Ability to communicate technical information to laypersons and interactive with highly diverse team consisting of internal and external members
  • Ability to complete work in a timely manner, under tight timelines with projects that may have conflicting deadlines

Desired/Preferred:
Demonstrated experience developing Web-based materials for education environments preferred

Problem Solving:

• Seeks problem solutions from multiple options caused by changing plan assumptions
• Determines how things are to be done
• Balances competing projects and work schedules

Accountability:

• Acts on issues based on set practices and procedures or well defined policies
• Works within established protocols
• Self-directed with minimal oversight by supervisor
• Overall work is reviewed during annual performance evaluation and regular discussions with supervisor
• Provides value added guidance to other staff
• Influences operational decisions

Physical Demands/Conditions:

• Office
  • Sit for prolonged periods of time, requires manual dexterity for operation of personal computer and ten-key, must be able to lift boxes weighing 30-40 pounds, operate a telephone, frequent interruptions to concentration, interact with a wide range of clients and co-workers
• Travel
  • Moderate travel requirements (up to 25% of work schedule) including extended overnight stays out of state
  • Ability to travel by car or common carrier for out of state and rural travel
  • Ability to transport and/or handle moderate sized packages and materials (up to 35 pounds) at on-site locations.

COMPENSATION
Salary range: $43,100 - $73,800 per year based on experience, plus a benefits package that includes vacation, generous employer paid retirement, medical, dental, life insurance, transportation benefit, and opportunities for ongoing professional development.

APPLICATIONS
Please submit your resume and letter of application to nwrelstaffing@nwrel.org. Interviews will be conducted after internal screening. In your cover letter, please reference Position #09-04 and how your skills match the specific qualifications listed above.

NWREL is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer

Relay Technology is an Information Technology staffing firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. We work with small to mid size companies helping them identify top notch IT talent for contract, contract to hire and full time placements.

We are searching for several PHP web developers with MySQL skills. Additionally, we are seeking a team lead with the same skill set. The client is a growing web development firm that is working to add to their already strong team of developers and designers. This opportunity would enable the candidate to further their technical skills by working with a group of accomplished and driven individuals.

Responsibilities:

• Building high volume web sites
• Research and develop intuitive user interfaces for clients.
• Transform Web Design PSD's into full fledged dynamic websites
• Work with business dev team to quickly deploy multivariate tested landing pages
• Work with other developers to develop scalable LAMP applications

Requirements:

• College study in Computer Science is desired, but not mandatory
• Experience with the LAMP tools is required. Strong PHP needed.
• Knowledgeable in software such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and other web development tools.
• Any experience building shopping cart comparison engines is a plus

Application:
Please send to resume@relaytechnology.com:

• Resume listing your employment history
• Samples of your web work

Relay Technology is an equal opportunity employer.

This group is responsible for providing customer facing applications that expose the catalog of media assets. In a rapidly evolving digital music space, the group is responsible for exploring new opportunities and defining the direction for the future of music discovery and consumption. These applications span mobile distribution, artist websites, social networking, media streaming, and more. The Web Technology developer is responsible for developing and maintaining several web based applications within the direct to consumer services group. These systems are core to global delivery of digital content including our mobile content application and our direct to consumer mobile store.

Successful candidates come from a Computer Science / Engineering Background with either a Masters or Bachelors Degree

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
The Web Technology Developer responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to:

• Server side web development
• Participate in all phases of the SDLC
• Participate in media technology discussions and rapidly prototype new concepts
• Communicate with mobile providers and media services concerning developing new technologies
• Design & develop new enhancements to cutting edge audio and video transcoding engine
• Extend and manage a highly dynamic distributed computing environment used to power direct-to-consumer applications as well as internally focused tools
• Focus on delivery of content to mobile devices
• Focus on content production applications using XSL and Object Oriented PHP

Environment:
Open and dynamic work environment in which the environment consists of small teams (1-3 developers) and rapid development cycles with limited and changing specs. Developers are free to choose OS and tool sets. Current code base is largely LAMP (very OO PHP) based, but includes Java and a limited amount of Ruby on Rails. Future apps may be more Java focused.

Job requirements:

REQUIRED

• 4+ years of server side web development experience
• Degree is CS/EE or related field
• Knowledge of OO PHP (Open to working across technologies)
• Expertise with data models and SQL
• Excellent problem solving, design, and communication skills

PLUSES (Must have at least 2)

• Love of technology for music entertainment (and able to prove it!)
• Experience with XSL
• Knowledge of mobile content delivery technologies. (BREW, J2ME, WAP Browsers, '¦)
• Rudimentary digital signal processing
• Experience with MySQL database and tools
• Knowledge of Linux servers
• BREW development experience

Those interested should contact Dana Bergeron - CTI Teksource, 212-453-9004 or dbergeron [at] ctiteksource [dot] com