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Job title

VB Developer

Company Quality Software Engineering
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Missouri, Saint Louis
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience Less than 1 Year of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 10/14/2004
Description
REQUIRED GENERAL SKILLS:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering preferred. Two to three years experience in large enterprise environment.

Team orientation: able to interact effectively with team members and customers. Good writing skills for technical and non-technical documents.

Interpersonal skills for interaction with development team, support staff, project team and customer areas of the company.

Excellent communications skills. Ability to communicate in verbal and written forms at all levels.

Ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentation of procedures for customers and partners.

Results orientation: able to work as a self-starter with minimal direction. Experienced with estimating tasks.

Ability to work with minimal direction, taking high-level system requirements and translating those requirements into specific solutions.

Where required, flex-hours for customer availability; 40 hour workweek.


REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Experience programming, system development, design, and business analysis, utilizing n-Tier design.


Specific programming and technical skills:

Visual Basic
.NET
VBA for Microsoft Access applications
ODBC
Relational database applications using SQL with Oracle servers
Writing stored procedures
Wise Installer
Crystal Reports

Experience on projects utilizing full life-cycle system delivery methodologies.

Experience in migrating applications built in Microsoft Access to Visual Basic or VB.NET.

Awareness of basic IT principles: requirements analysis, scope management, software configuration management, system design techniques (process & data modeling), application of proper development tools, testing (unit, integration, system, acceptance test), promotion/transition to production environment.

Experience in providing support for production systems in the form of enhancements and minor bug fixes.

Experience in conducting proper unit and systems testing.

Analytic skills: problem solving, root cause analysis and systems thinking.


ADDITIONAL DESIRED SKILLS:

Visual Basic 3rd Party Toolkits. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Seagate Crystal Reports.
Experience in writing technical documentation.


DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

This individual will be responsible for working as part of a programming team that provides support and development services. There are 100+ customers that use the computer systems. There are over 30+ applications with additional minor and ad-hoc applications. Applications were developed using a variety of tools including ASP/MTS, VB, Microsoft Access, PowerBuilder, and Crystal Reports.

The customers are located throughout the country but primarily in St. Louis.

The primary customer group:
Operates as an independent business as part of the Media branch in the Marketing Division. Uses computer systems that purchase and track over $400 million in media advertising and help grow the business.

This individual will work closely with the application team in the planning and tracking of work assignments.

Work as part of the team to migrate systems currently in Microsoft Access to Visual Basic or VB.NET. Define new requirements and design additional solutions and enhancements. Be responsible for development and support of existing media buying systems.

The candidate that is selected will be available for off-hours support & overtime as necessary.

Preference given to Local Candidates.df-tc

Experience/Skills
Visual Basic,n-Tier

Other desired skills:
Visual Basic,n-Tier
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