Fellow Rubyists, I've been lurking here for a month or two and have the best intentions of actually meeting up with the group at some point, especially since I live pretty close to UCSD. No excuses -- if I'm in town for the next meeting, I'll be there.
Let me give a quick introduction. I'm a recently retired Air Force test pilot who made a big career shift and gave up my cockpit for a laptop. My wife is from La Jolla so we moved here after I retired in November. I was fortunate enough to land a job with a company here in San Diego that does software development on government contracts, mostly in Java. Several of us are Ruby and Rails geeks as well so we're always looking for ways to sneak a little bit of those into our work! My company is about to get very busy with two new contracts and is looking to hire some talented developers as quickly as possible. These contracts will take several years to execute, so this isn't a temp contracting gig, it's the real deal. In particular we're looking for the "jack of all trades" types, creative developers with strong skills in Java and/or C# (and even C and Fortran -- yes, Fortran [don't ask]). Knowing your way around Subversion and Eclipse is a definite plus as is .NET experience. If you've got some GIS or mapping software exposure, bring that along, too. A lot of our upcoming work will involve Service Oriented Architectures and web services, so if you have some serious skillz in that area we should talk. Our Jedi knights need a SOA Obiwan. Though we're fairly light in processes we do need folks who understand and can practice the software engineering side of things, like requirements analysis, UML modeling and code reviews. We follow an agile approach as much as we can and only use as much "real" process as necessary. Since some of our projects are sensitive having or being able to obtain a security clearance is a must. Don't worry about the arrests -- it's the convictions that matter. If you are at all interested, or know someone who might be, please contact me via email. The company has been around for nearly 30 years and is well-established with excellent benefits. As an aside, I was in Seattle in May and actually met up with Geoffrey Grosenbach for lunch. He was kind enough to show me "Peepcode HQ", which was cool. I mentioned that I'd found this group and he said he knew a few of you very well and asked me to pass on a hello from him when I actually get to meet the group. So "hello from Geoff" in advance. Cheers, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
