Job Title : Mainframe Programmer
Location : St Louis, MO
Duration : 6+ Months Contract

Job Type : Contract

Rate : $30

Major Accountabilities:Senior level mainframe programmer with proficient knowledge of COBOL, CICS, and DB2. Candidate must be knowledgeable of DB2 Stored Procedures and proficient in SQL. Candidate will be preparing applications designs and/or specifications and working on new development as well as maintaining and modifying existing code. The application is a 2-tier client-sever architecture using DB2 Stored Procedures. The client is developed in C# (.Net) and the server is in CICS using DB2 Stored Procedures on the Mainframe. Candidate will be expected to participate in all phases of the development lifecycle with the main emphasis being on the design & development of DB2 Stored Procedures. Candidate must also be familiar with formalized testing procedures and may assist in Automated and Manual System Testing of the application and creation and execution of test cases as well as defect tracking (documentation) and resolution. Experience with Winrunner/Loadrunner and Quality Center and knowledge of REXX is a plus. The candidate should posses the above skills at the same level as the resource being replaced.

Position Title: SQL DBA

Duration: one year

Location: Seattle, WA

Rate:$50

In person interview in Seattle, WA required

Application Database Administrator, contractor will provide expertise in analysis, design, development, acquisition, installation, maintenance, programming, testing, quality assurance, configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, problem resolution and recommendations for managing Microsoft SQL Server 2000 application databases and data as required to meet the expected levels of security and reliability for our users.

Contractor will provide expertise in the use of report writing tools, SQL queries, and data transformation systems for accessing, comparing and merging the data contained in the MS SQL applications.

Contractor will coordinate and guide Information Technology (IT) specialists regarding database management issues; provide expertise, consultation and support to IT staff, application and business experts, and other region and headquarters staff; access and resolve technical issues for project control applications and databases; recommend, develop and implement solutions for integrating project control data across systems.

Contractor will recommend and implement policies and procedures for data management and security for project control applications, servers and databases; be responsible for managing changes to the database schemas and application components of the production and development servers; ensure reliability of application and data model by thoroughly testing changes before implementation in production; provide data quality assurance by monitoring and controlling the production data environment.

Contractor will conduct needs assessments, requirements analysis and evaluate products related to conducting the duties of the Applications Database Administrator for project control applications.

Contractor will provide DBA support as directed and applicable to staff, project staff, and region and headquarters staff including, but not limited to, the following tasks:

• Track, route and follow-up of project control applications DBA support requests through the problem resolution process.
• Identify project control applications database problems as due to, or not due to, the use of project control or related applications and suggest remedies.
• Diagnose and resolve customer problems.
• Provide technical and application assistance to users related to database administration.
• Advise users on the use of systems, hardware, and software as related to database administration.
• Work closely with the Network Administration Group to coordinate requests for equipment and service as related to database administration.
• Coordinate MS SQL Server project control database application installations, upgrades, and changes.
• Coordinate group and user account privileges, Citrix access, or other permissions support needs related to securing the project controls SQL database applications.
• Develop and implement SQL database and data quality assurance plans.
• Perform SQL database and data quality control.
• Maintain the project controls SQL database application configurations (e.g. production, test, sandbox, development, publication).
• Create and implement SQL database application installation and upgrade plans.
  Contractor will provide DBA support as directed and applicable to staff working with project control application vendors including, but not limited to, the following tasks:

• Coordinate and work with vendors to identify and implement any SQL database schema revisions, as required, to resolving application issues, performing application upgrades, and maintaining security and reliability.
• Coordinate with and/or oversee vendors responsible for installing server hardware and/or MS SQL Server 2000, or later, software for project control database applications.

Contractor will provide DBA support as directed and applicable for documentation of the project controls applications related to SQL Server configuration and SQL database administration processes, procedures, work flows and responsibilities including, but not limited to, the following tasks:

• Review existing documentation, perform documentation gap analysis, and identify documentation needs.
• Create and/or modify existing documentation for Applications & IT staff, IT Network Administration staff, region and headquarters staff.
• Assist Applications & IT staff with documentation for defining project controls applications requirements, capabilities and limitations as driven by the SQL Server, database and application configuration and/or security models implemented.

Contractor will provide DBA support as directed and applicable to Applications and IT staff, region and/or headquarters staff responsible for administration of project controls applications including, but not limited to, the following tasks:

• Install, configure, upgrade, and administer project control applications.
• Isolate application or system problems and coordinate resolution.
• Assist in testing and verifying system changes
• Prepare problem reports.
• Maintain proper group and user permission levels as required to ensure the project control applications are secure and reliable.
• Customize database and/or application configurations, menus, and report layouts.
• Build, revise and enhance report layouts using application and/or third party tools.
• Support different application environments (e.g. production, publication, development, sandbox, test)
• Maintain consistency between application environments
• Move project data between environments.
• Review system logs and messages to identify events and errors.
• Schedule and implement on-going application and database maintenance.

SAS,UNIX systems

Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6 Months
Rate:($50to sub or 1099)


The contractor will be primarily responsible for conducting advanced statistical analysis and creating ad hoc analysis reports for use by internal analytic staff as well as other Visa business units. The term reporting is used broadly here to mean statistical types of reporting for model performance, analytic consulting and other types of analysis used to support business needs. Additionally, the contractor would support general analytic data management activities (e.g., data sampling) that exist on the analytic servers. Skills: The qualifications of this contractor would include at least 3 years of experience in an analytical role either at a financial institution or a financial services-related company. The candidate should also be familiar with SAS, UNIX systems, and the use of statistical analysis within a business environment. Experience working with large transaction data stores is preferred and strong knowledge and experience in SAS data manipulation is a must.

IBM Websphere and MQ middleware infrastructure

Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6 Months
Rate:($65to sub or 1099)


Install, support and maintain IBM Websphere and MQ middleware infrastructure, adhering to existing architectural guidelines. Act as point of escalation for development and operations teams. Assess and resolve problems in lab and production systems. Work with existing team to deploy new installations based on established standards, and help evolve those standards to remain relevant to new application development needs. The position requires several years of technical experience with WebSphere or a similar Java application server (Weblogic, etc), IBM MQ Series. LDAP and/or Siteminder experience is a definite plus.
Primary Responsibilities - Install, configure, administer and support Websphere Application Server, MQ (MQSeries), LDAP and related middleware integration products. - Work with engineering team and operations to implement standardized deployments of these products. - Provide production and lab support of middleware components, including troubleshooting, problem resolution, and assist in amending Visa's procedures and documents to avoid these issues in future deployments. - Assist in the development, documentation and implementation of operational procedures. - Work with Project Management, Operations, and/or Engineering teams to integrate site enhancements and monitoring tools. - Working knowledge of shell scripting, perl, python. Strong knowledge prefered, as department direction is to automate routine tasks. - Familiarity with SiteMinder and LDAP a strong plus. - Position may require on-call support as needed by project. This varies from project to project. Preferred
Experience and Qualifications: - 2 to 5 years Java application server, and MQ (IBM MQ Series) administration experience on Unix (preferably AIX) and/or Windows platforms


LDAP administration experience preferred - Unix Administration and Windows administration & performance tuning a plus. - Familiar with Oracle or DB2 a plus. - Strong team player

Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6 Months
Rate: $50

Engineer (Automation) Software tools developer for WebSphere/Java environments. Must be expert in Python, Perl, JACL (TCL), scripting languages, and software tools. Ideal candidates will have expert level of experience in developing automation tools for deployments; environment builds for WebSphere (or any J2EE) application server environments. The SME will be a principal developer in updating and adapting Middleware deployment automation building and developing tools to achieve the automation objectives.

Deep understanding of UNIX and Windows system administration and broad awareness of networking, storage, and, distributed systems environments will be required to be successful.

Primary Responsibilities: - Develop Python, Perl, JACL, shell scripts, WMI and VB scripts and batch files for automation of WebSphere application server systems and application administration. - Package the scripts in tool format and help enterprise tools repository - Train customers in the use, administration, and customization scripts - Work with team to deploy large scale business critical applications using automation tools - Develop custom tools for environment builds, deployments and customization for each applications using industry standard programming languages including Python, Perl, Shell, and Visual Basic to meet application's business needs.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications: - 3 to 5 years Perl, Python, JACL, and shell scripting experience on Unix (preferably AIX) and/or Windows platforms - 1-2 years of WebSphere (or any Java) application server administration experience preferred - Unix Administration and automation experience.

Application Programmer

Location: Milford, CT

Duration: 9 months

Rate: $50 maximum.

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.

Significant Automotive Industry Experience
Product Development experience
Powertrain experience
Embedded microprocessor development experience
Requirements gathering and identification

Communication savvy – written and verbal demonstrates ability to:
gather requirements
negotiate solutions
build consensus
communicate with suppliers and clients
work with all levels – leadership and technical)

Desired Skill: Hybrid Powertrain Experience

Experienced Business Analyst with some project management experience. Experience in a .Net environment will be helpful. Proficiency in MS Office suite, a must!

Location: Omaha, NE

Duration: 6 months

Rate: Not more than $35 per hour.

Looking for system engineers.

Contract to hire
Maximum pay is $50 per hour

Location:Richmond, VA

In person interview is required

The following skills are required:
ASP.net, .net framework 2.0, c#, ms sql server 2000, db2, mdac, xml, smtp and SSL.
HTML and CLL will be a plus.

Position Open for GIS Technician

Location:Newark, NJ

Duration:12 months

Max rate: $30 per hour.

Experience:5 to 6 years required

We have a 20 hour per week position for a GIS Technician who is well versed with Micro Station technology for a large utility company in Newark, NJ. We need someone who is local to NJ if possible, since it is a part time opening initally. After a period of three months or so, it will become 40 hours per week deal.

In order to apply for this position please send over your updated resume along with 3 references and let me know the best time to call you. I look forward to hear from you and hope that I can be a help in your job quest.

Position to be Filled Systems Manager Location: Baltimore, MD
MBE requirement Yes
Period of Performance From start until June 2008 Projected Start Date (need date) ASAP
Full Time/Part Time Position (provide number of hours on a weekly basis)

Labor Category Description Total Experience Ten (10) years progressive experience in the evaluation, design, and analysis of business or scientific applications using database management systems or high level programming languages.

Specialized Experience. Five (5) years of specific experience managing business and systems applications including requirements definition to ensure systems integrity.

Education and other requirements. A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline. A master’s degree is preferred.

Duties. Performs and is responsible for overall systems analysis, design, programming, documentation, performance evaluation, or implementation of multiple complex system applications and related Management Information Systems/Automated Data Processing (MIS/ADP) systems. Communicates with all levels of management. Oversees all phases of the software development life cycle with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing and acceptance phases. Provides management directions and solutions to integrate network management solutions across communications forms, multi-network architectures, processing systems, and network elements.

Specific Work Details(Pertinent paragraphs from Statement of Work or description of actual work to be performed)The candidate must be able to qualify against and be approved by the client in the contract labor category listed above, and have the additional skills listed below.

Management/Technical Leadership Skills Required (identify any specific skills required beyond the labor category requirements)

Required:

· At least 3 years experience as a systems administrator for Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon) software

· Experienced in assigning and tracking user permissions and rights within Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon) software based on work objectives and position authorization

· Ability to train users on Solomon features and functions and to enhance the user experience with Solomon solutions to business problems.

· Ability to communicate effectively and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with systems users, vendors, computer operations personnel, programmer analysts and technical support specialists.

Desired:

· Knowledge of the principles and practices of designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and controlling data base management systems for multipurpose, multitasking computers

· Knowledge of data base management systems, software and tools

· Knowledge of third generation and other generally accepted computer programming languages

· Skill in documenting new and revised data base management systems procedures and standards

· Skill in using diagnostic and performance tools and other software products to maintain established standards for data base management systems

· At least three years experience generating reports with Microsoft FRx report writer software including FRx Web and Report Server

· At least three years experience creating SQL statements and running scripts from Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer

· Experience with administration and configuration of Microsoft Dynamics SL Business Portal module

· Experience integrating Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon) software with other applications

· The candidate may be asked to work temporary assignments under the same contract and task order at various sites across the State of Maryland, to backfill the absences of other personnel in similar work assignments. The candidate may be asked to work temporary assignments under the same contract and task order at various sites across the State of Maryland, to backfill the absences of other personnel in similar work assignments.