Hey Chris, Thanks for posting your job post, I hope you will find someone that will fit the bill. For the record, Geoff/peepcode has been one of SDRuby's oldest sponsors and we really appreciate his work and support.
For those who don't know peepcode, check out the great tutorials available for a very low price: http://peepcode.com/ - Matt On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
