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05-13-2009, 05:50 PM
** Local candidates only please

This position requires the ability to direct a variety of diverse - and sometimes co***icting - requests, priorities, and activities. Candidates will need management skills combined with the flexibility to interact with people at all levels.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Manage a team of developers and provide leadership in design, delivery, and support of all online products, sites and applications
* Appropriately identify and assign tech leads to clients and/or projects
* Develop and manage effective working relationships with other departments, with whom work must be coordinated or interfaced
* Work with project managers and tech leads to assign accurately evaluate project scope and budgets, and assign development resources to projects
* Asses the hosting needs of current and future sites/apps/widgets
* Creates and monitors the set of policies that establish standard coding practices, deployment frameworks, tools, and methodology
* Continually mentor and evaluate the development staff
* Establish and define a standard methodology for quality assurance, to ensure that all deliverables are bug-free
* Management of SVN version control system
* Work with Analytics team to define/implement tracking

CLIENT CONTACT

* Attend meetings with account heads to assess client needs at a high level from a technical perspective
* Ability to answer questions in real time regarding best practices for building sites, apps, banners, etc
* Liaise with the tech leads on the client side

QUALIFICATIONS

* 6 years of interactive development experience
* 4 years experience in managing technical professionals
* Bachelor's Degree, ideally in computer science or equivalent experience
* Experience in a large media, technology or internet company
* Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget
* Deep understanding of all web technologies, including Flash, XHTML, PHP, mySQL, XML, JSON, CSS, Actionscript 3, AMF
* Ancillary knowledge of mobile technologies: iPhone SDK, Android, FlashLite 3.1
* Knowledge of social media APIs and mechanisms: Facebook, Clearspring, Twitter, flickr, etc
* Working knowledge of video in Flash and on the web in general
* Ability to work/compile Actionscript in Eclipse, FDT. And/or Flexbuilder
* A sound understanding of content management systems
* Server command line interaction

To be considered, please submit your resume along with your salary requirements to beau at open-source-staffing.com

Thank you,

Beau J. Gould
Open Source Staffing
www.open-source-staffing.com
beau at open-source-staffing.com