CRM Developer – CRM –Java/J2EE – Midtown NYC – Up to $115K
http://www.wrightassociates.org/crmdecrmjmin.html
Technical Development Lead – CRM – Java/J2EE – Midtown NYC – Up to $120K
Position Title – WR35635092009
Excellent Compensation Package + Very Comprehensive Benefits Package
Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship
Company
Large, successful, and growing NYC based Non-Profit Organization with a superior mission. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused environment all with a common cause focused on an important mission.
Position Responsibilities – Summary
The Technical Development Lead – CRM will play a technical leadership role for the high growth Information Technology at the organization. In this role, he/she is responsible for working with business analysts, developers and stakeholders to implement and maintain new CRM solutions. This technical lead will play a pivotal role in the selection process and deployment of this new CRM solution.
As a leader in the highly motivated Information Technology development team, he/she is responsible for enhancing and streamlining the contact management requirements, as well as coordinating CRM team efforts. He/she will guide and mentor developers and always communicate closely with the rest of the technology development teams, including keeping stakeholders informed of technical progress and risks.
The Technical Development Lead – CRM reports directly to the VP, Application Development.
Detailed Responsibilities;
· Oversee current CRM application environment while setting vision and standards for the development and integration of future solutions
· Ensuring Production CRM support team follows best practices when architecting, programming or documenting solutions. This includes creating standards and documentation and leveraging processes to ensure all development staff follow the same
· Develop resource allocation and planning through project planning, staff hiring, staff supplementation and/or outsourcing initiatives
· Working closely with the other technology teams to ensure appropriate infrastructure selection, maintenance, policies and procedures are in place to support the custom application environment.
· Ensuring development staff are communicating effective knowledge transfer to support analysts
· Providing the highest level support for production applications
· Enhancing and maintaining existing application suite
· Communicating development status on a regular basis to VP, Application Development and stakeholders, escalating any identified risks
· Recommending cost effective technology solutions for business challenges
· Ensuring the on-time delivery of enhancements or modifications to production systems
· Experience architecting complex large scale systems incorporating packaged and custom applications
· Managing a team of developers
Required Skills and Competencies:
· At least 8+ years development experience – 5 years in a management role
· At least 5+ years development experience in large CRM solution environment – eg: SalesLogix, Salesforce.com, Siebel or SugarCRM
· At least 3+ years development experience developing in multi-tier Java environment
· 5+ years managing and mentoring team of direct reports
· Excellent knowledge of CRM development process, architecture and data model
· Experience integrating CRM solution with other applications via real-time, batch, sync/async
· Experience with Web Services and other integrating technologies
· Experience in gathering and documenting business and functional requirements
· Experience programming in core Java and J2EE environment
· Strong knowledge of and experience with Linux, Apache, Tomcat and WebSphere
· Experience working with databases – eg: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2 and general SQL query skills
· Demonstrated team building and project management skills.
· Experience working with open source solutions
· Experience in Agile development methodologies
· Experience with Perl or other scripting language
· Detail-oriented, organized, and possess good writing and communication skills
· Ability to operate effectively, and with a sense of possibility, in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
· Excellent mentor and coach
Academic Qualifications:
* At least a four-year degree in Computer Science, MIS or a related field
* CRM-related certification from a solutions vendor, a plus
Contact Information
Gary Wright – President – Wright Associates
Phone – (508) 761-6354 – Email – replywrightassociates@verizon.net – WEB Site – www.wrightassociates.org
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”.
-Albert Einstein
For some who is still holding breath and waiting for things to “get back to normal,” it’s time to start taking in some air so you can get used to the fact that things may not ever be like they were. Things just might get even better, but for the time being, entrepreneurs need to shift and adjust. It’s not enough to just go with the flow.
If you’re stuck in a holding pattern until things even out you might end up losing more than you bargained for. Being open to new opportunities and endeavors is one of the prime characteristics of an entrepreneur.
Once you’ve accepted the fact that things are different you’ll be open to new ways for making money. What worked two years ago might not work in today’s economic climate. It may be time to rethink old strategies and make adjustments to your marketing and /or the packaging of goods and services.
Successful entrepreneurs are always on the lookout for new ways to create cash. Everyone has the ability to change the course of their future. It’s times like these that separate the doers from the whiners.
You’ve got to be in a cycle of continuous learning and earning. Stay abreast of what’s working for others. If you’ve modeled your Cash Machine after a similar company, perhaps it’s time to revisit their strategies. Be on the lookout for changing trends.
We have abundant opportunities! We all have the power to create success in any economy. What can you do today to create new money?
Be thinking about how you can make this economic change work for you instead of against you.
If you’re stuck in a rut, remember you’re not alone. It might be time to get reorganized. Join a networking group. Have a brainstorming session with your team or advisors. Keep things going in a forward motion, don’t become stagnate!
If it’s time to make a change in your Cash Machine strategies — do it. Don’t hesitate. Business is like the economy, it’s ever changing.
I know things can get tough at times but if you’re just waiting for things to even out you’ll be waiting a long time. You’ve got to think with your creative side and act on your best instincts. It’s understandable to get stuck once in a while but know that it’s up to you to snap out of it.
Do you want to have control of your future or are you listening to all the naysayers? Do you have a plan or are you just wishing? It’s time to get real, be honest, make changes where necessary and pull yourself up by the boot straps. You absolutely can do this!
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What to do? What can be done? Learn more about creating your cash machine and getting on your fastest path to cash, watch Loral Langemeier’s new video that answers the most common questions and concerns she’s received through a survey of thousands of people.
Project Manager II – Business Intelligence-Massachusetts
Job # 6073
Job Type: Full Time, regular direct position
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ to 7 years of experience.
Management Experience Required – No
Willingness to Travel – Occasionally Must have Business Intelligence, SAP, BW, BO and financial background. Manages global business intelligence projects. Provides the leadership for functional and/or technical analysis, development, and implementation of enterprise business intelligence capabilities. Provides timely portfolio status updates to the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO). Responsible for assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources, and developing plan and schedule to ensure timely completion of projects. Effectively coordinates the activities of internal and external resources in a matrix environment with cross Global Business Unit (GBU) partners. Follows standards in all projects as set forth by the Enterprise PMO. Provide daily operational and user support as needed . Communicates with Enterprise PMO and business executive management regarding project status. Works with senior business management and IS Leadership Team (ISLT) to establish priorities among identified projects. Participates in all corporate programs as directed by the Enterprise PMO and senior management in the Global Information Systems (GIS) organization. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Executes, in the form of projects, multi-year process enablement roadmaps aligning with S&N global strategy and technology standards. Works closely with business partners across multiple business units to define business requirements, determine functional approaches and align business intelligence projects with overall company strategic objectives. Implement process improvements and support organization change management efforts as necessary to sustain change and realize benefits related to assigned projects. Work with business partners and IT department representatives to drive resolution of cross-GBU, cross-GIS issues and manage risk for assigned projects. Leads global, distributed, cross-functional teams assigned to deliver benefits to the business. Complies with Enterprise PMO methodology to track, measure and phase gate review project metrics, schedule, budget and issues. Promote effective communications between the core teams, extended teams and the rest of the organization. Supports and adheres to all policies, procedures and standards, including GIS Guiding Principles, Project and Change Management processes, Internal and External Health & Safety, Quality, Regulatory and Finance compliance, and support of Internal and External Audits. Prepares and builds business cases for proposed projects. Leverages informal and formal contacts to overcome conflicts and blockages. Skilled at internal/external consulting and relationship management. Demonstrated ability in conflict resolution, issues and change management. Understanding of legal issues and dealing with their resolutions for the enterprise projects. Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally as well as written, to diverse groups at all organizational levels. For Funds, Costs or Profits: Accountable to business and ISLT sponsors for successful project execution within budget and schedule. Budget authority up to $5 million. For Supervision: Directs and manages global, multi-cultural, virtual teams in order to successfully execute projects. Projects affect multiple global locations. Project teams may exceed 30 FTE in a globally matrixed organization. For Internal and External Relationships: Works in a matrixed organizational role reporting, for project purposes, to both GIS and business executive management. Communicates and works with GBU business and GIS VP/Group Director/Directors and Managers on a daily basis concerning strategic, operational and tactical issues impacting project solution delivery, business processes, applications and systems. Supports executive level meetings as required. Coordinates and negotiates with external vendors when necessary to resolve systems issues or explore future capabilities. The successful candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills and communication abilities. The job holder must win the confidence of individuals at all levels, both inside and outside of the group, to foster teamwork and vision for the growth of the organization and support the vision and goals of the GIS organization.========================================
Thank you
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Abbas Masnoon
PPCG, Inc.
Professional Placement Consulting Group, Inc.
A Nationwide Professional & Executive Search Firm
Tel: 508-234-6674
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EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL’S STARTING GRANT
The Starting Grant was created by the European Research Council as a response to insufficient funding opportunities for young researchers who are at an important developmental stage in their careers, and in recognition that researchers need to be provided with the means for early career independence. The Starting Grants support projects carried out by individual research teams, which are headed by a single “Principal Investigator” of any nationality and may include additional team members. They are awarded and managed according to simple procedures that maintain the focus on scientific excellence, encourage creativity and risk-taking, and combine flexibility with accountability. The grant scheme is operating on a “bottom-up” basis without predetermined topics or thematic priorities.
Selection Criterion: Principal Investigator’s potential to perform world-class research / Quality of the proposed frontier research project
Requirements:
Candidates can be of any nationality, and must have obtained their PhD (or equivalent degree more than two years but less than ten years prior to the opening date of the relevant call for proposals (justified extensions of this period may be accepted, see ERC guide for applicants – grant Schemes) / Intention to work within EU Member States or Associated States.
Features: Amount of funding: up to € 2.0 M per grant / Duration per grant: Up to 5 years Depending on the subject area of a research proposal there are three deadlines for proposal submission. It is up to the applicant to choose and decide on the most appropriate ERC peer review evaluation panel and the corresponding deadline. Applicants must submit their proposals before the deadline of the selected ERC Panel. The panel structure and the descriptors for each panel can be found here.
Applications for the Starting Grant for Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE) are due on 28/10/2009
Applications for the Starting Grant for Life Sciences (LS) are due on 18/11/2009
Applications for the Starting Grant for Social Sciences and Humanities (SH) are due on 09/12/2009.
For more information, please go to: http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm
MARKETING MANAGER
In order to launch its service in Switzerland, iTaste, a second generation internet and mobile community is looking to recruit a Country Manager for the Swiss Market. Reporting to the Co-Founder & CEO, you will be the main contact for internal as well external requests on your market.
JOB DUTIES WILL INCLUDE:
• Launch & manage online and offline marketing initiatives and programs to ensure visibility (Blogs, Partner web sites, …)
• Create, develop and execute direct marketing and online campaigns
• Work on Newsletters
• Handle PR and analyst relations
• Develop viral marketing campaigns (blogs, social networks, video platforms)
• Develop loyalty programs with partners
• Bring value to the product by collecting structured feedback from the community
Details : http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=744357
Finally we discovered that there is no “big daddy” out there.
Uncle Sam is not an uncle anymore, it is corporate machine that works for itself not us.
I love this quote from Loral:
“Christopher Columbus did not discover America so we can have 401Ks. He discovered America for entrepreneurial spirit.”
Finally we can get back to our true values
Think about it, waiting for acceptance and approval mentality – as a victim mentality, slave mentality . Slavery is over for 200 years, but we are still there.
Can we refresh and re-start? We all know what to do, it is doing makes things real.
Here is an audio interview of Loral with Lisa Garr, the host of The Aware Show about Balancing Life in Changing Times. Loral believes that Americans have a choice in their financial decisions and that anyone can learn to act, think and make money the way the wealthy do—and have for generations. (listen)
Forget saving money.
You don’t get wealthy by putting your money away in a bank account nor do you become poor just because you bought yourself an extra latte. You get rich by making money… and money management expert Loral Langemeier can show you how.
You don’t have fixed potential, why accept a fixed income?
"Put More Cash in Your Pocket"
book helps you create your own "lemonade stand" by getting paid for the things you already do. If you do billing and accounts receivable for your boss, why not do it for other businesses as well? Watching the neighbor’s kids all the time as a favor? Get paid for your time! Good at fixing cars? Fix your friends’ cars, too!
By following Loral’s simple and straightforward approach, you’ll put more cash — $1000 or more a month — in your pocket in no time. I’ve helped thousands of people make extra cash fast. People from all different backgrounds, in a variety of situations, all over the world. People just like you.
And I do it by helping you to make your life bigger, not smaller. In fact, with the process I’m going to share with you:
The Institute of Electrical Engineering at EPFL invites applications for a Professor in the area of Distributed Electrical Systems. Qualified dossiers at all levels will be considered. A strong expertise is requested in the broad fields of classic and non-conventional Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage as well as in Distribution Networks and Technologies. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: (a) integration/optimization of distributed energy production and storage technologies, (b) large-scale integration of new loads such as electric transportation and heat pumps, (c) ubiquitous deployment of Smart Grid technologies, (d) broad application of innovative ICT technologies for monitoring and control, (e) interfacing with multi-energy networks.
Applications should include a cover letter with a statement of motivation, curriculum vitae, list of publications and patents, concise statement of research and teaching interests, and the names and addresses of 6 references. Applications must be uploaded in PDF format to the web site http://iel-search09.epfl.ch. Candidate evaluation will begin on December, 1st 2009. For additional information on EPFL, please consult the web sites http://www.epfl.ch, http://sti.epfl.ch and http://iel.epfl.ch. Additional information can be garnered from the EPFL Energy Center (http://energycenter.epfl.ch) under the direction of Prof. Hans B. Püttgen.
Details : http://professeurs.epfl.ch/page82391.html
If you need more money right now. You can’t, or don’t want to wait any longer. How do you do it? "Turn what you know into money!" – says Loral Langemeier.
Listen to 7 Secrets To Making More Money.
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Loral Langemeier, as Founder and CEO of Live Out Loud, mentors thousands across the country along their way to financial freedom.
Posted Jul 06 2009, 01:16 PM by Anthony Mirhaydari
Really, how hard is it to find a job? Was June’s horrid numbers, in which 467,000 people lost their jobs compared to 345,000 in May, a one-time fluke? Or does it mean that all those Wall Street economists who believe the economic recovery is starting are dead wrong?
Not to scare you, but the situation is actually worse than it seems. Over the years, the government has changed the way it counts the unemployed. An example of this is the criticized Birth-Death Model which was added in 2000. The model is designed to account for the birth and death of businesses and the resultant lag in survey data. Unfortunately, the model doesn’t work that well during economic contractions (like we have now) and consistently overstates the number of jobs being created each month.
John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics specializes in removing these questionable tweaks to the government’s statistical data to better align current numbers with the methodology used to gather historical data. After reviewing the data, Williams believes that “the June jobs loss likely exceeded 700,000.” David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff notes that the fall in the number of hours worked in June (to a record low of 33 per week) is equivalent to a loss of more than 800,000 jobs.
There are similar issues with the way the unemployment rate is measured. The headline rate only jumped from 9.4% to 9.5% because of a drop in the number of people in the workforce. The more inclusive “U-6″ measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers, jumped from 16.4% to 16.5%. But even this doesn’t adequately capture the situation on the ground: Back in the Clinton Administration, the definition of discouraged worker was changed to only include those that had given up looking for work because there were no jobs to be had within the last year.
By adding these folks back in, William’s SGS-Alternate Unemployment Measure rose to a jaw-dropping 20.6%. Separately, the Center for Labor Market Studies in Boston puts U.S. unemployment at 18.2%. Any way you cut the numbers, the situation is very bad. According to David Rosenberg, one-in-three among the unemployed have been looking for a job for more than six months and still can’t find one.
This brings us to another issue: expiring unemployment benefits. Continuing unemployment claims fell 53,000 to 6.7 million last week, but Deutsche Bank’s chief U.S. economist Joseph LaVorgna wonders how much of this decline is due people exhausting their standard 26-week benefit. He says: “We are concerned about what will happen when a significant share of out-of-work individuals’ benefits completely expire, because this could lead consumer spending to re-weaken, hence jeopardizing a fragile recovery.”
Unless the economy starts getting traction here in the third quarter, we could face a situation where people find that they have no job and no unemployment benefits. For these people, 2009 will feel an awful lot like 1932. As a result, spending cuts will be deep and dramatic.
My positions
The ongoing job losses will continue to weigh on the retail sector — which was one of the best performing groups coming out of the March low. I’ve added short positions in Target (TGT), Macy’s (M), and Office Depot (ODP) to my portfolio. Besides penny-pinching consumers, retailers face a federal minimum wage increase as well as a tough back-to-school and holiday shopping season.
Disclosure: The author does not own or control a position in any of the funds or companies mentioned.
Anthony Mirhaydari is a researcher for the Strategic Advantage investment newsletter. He can be contacted at anthony.mirhaydari@live.com. Feel free to comment below.
