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[gary066 at yahoo.com]

This is a technical management position for a premier media company.  I have previously worked as a J2EE consultant in this group.  Need someone with a strong J2EE technical background, although this is a managerial level position.  Some job functions:

• Oversee development of web application functionality
• Evaluate business requirements for technical feasibility
• Estimate, plan, track and provide status on technical projects and activities
• Identify and mitigate project risks
• Hire, train, mentor and manage developers
• Perform technical design and code reviews
• Approve and commit code for integration
• Design and develop application features
• Be a primary problem solving resource
• Oversee the technical work of vendor consultants and consulting teams
• Define and enforce company technical standards and best practices
• Evaluate technology vendors and products
• Develop, improve and enforce software development processes

Required Skills:

• The candidate must have a BA/BS degree and 7+ years professional experience and a minimum of three years supervisory experience.
• J2EE web application development (Servlets, JDBC, JSP, Javascript, etc.)
• Web application frameworks such as Struts, Spring, SiteMesh
• Data modeling and SQL
• Object-relational mapping frameworks such as Hibernate or EJB3
• Internet technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, XML, RSS, AJAX, etc.)
• Software engineering methodologies
• Version control and release management practices
• Development and deployment of applications on Unix / Linux.
• Load testing, profiling and performance tuning.
• Shell scripting

Desired Skills:

• Online publishing / media industry
• Content management systems such as Interwoven TeamSite
• Online community applications and services (forums, blogs, etc.)
• Alternative web development languages and frameworks, such as Grails, Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP and / or Flex