You guys looking for folks on a contract basis as well? part/full
time?
On Jun 22, 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
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