Payroll Title: Programmer / Analyst III.
Calit2 (100% Career)
Filing Deadline: Fri 11/20/2009
DESCRIPTION:
The Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems (CWPHS) conducts research that focuses on how the health of individuals, families, communities, social networks, and populations can be improved through the creative use of wireless and networked. The Social/Mobile Approach to Reduce Weight (SMART), is one in a group of six studies funded by the NIH, that will explore the use of mobile phone applications as well as social media applications and tools such as Facebook and Twitter to promote improved health behaviors, technologies and ubiquitous computing. The programmer will provide technical design, system integration, direction and leadership to a number of projects, including the SMART project, the Cyberinfrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research project and other CWPHS projects. The programmer will direct the work of programmers at the Jacob's School CSE department, CalIT2 and external consultants. Incumbent will be personally responsible for gathering and documenting the system requirements; specifying the interface to various social media applications and project databases; and the testing and deployment of the final system. In addition, the incumbent will take a technical leadership role with other NIH grant recipients to provide systems integration and ensure inter-operability of the research tool developed.
In collaboration with the SMART Project researchers, the programmer will design, develop and create mobile platforms (cell phone, PDAs) that enhance current health behavior interventions and that will become the hardware/software platform for future research. Provide technical leadership to develop grant applications and proposals to bring in funding to support new and ongoing research projects. Prepare budget, schedule and staff requirements for all technical phases of the project (design, programming, test and deployment) and maintain accountability for project objectives. Ideal candidates are highly knowledgeable of current culture, latest trends, practices, programs, and applications in the social media and networking arena, including, but not limited to, social networks, SMS/voice, location, micromedia, blogging, and video.
~~ Must be willing to work a flexible schedule to include evenings and weekends when required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
* B.S. degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited institution, plus significant (5 or more years) technical programming experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Demonstrated experience designing user interfaces for mobile devices. Proven experience capturing and developing system requirements by conducting interviews and focus groups with subject-matter experts and end-users. Strong UI and usability skills as applied to the development of social media applications and widgets.
* Demonstrated experience developing wireless applications in Java and Objective-C. Demonstrated experience designing, developing and deploying mobile applications that communicate with web-based applications.
* Advanced demonstrated knowledge of wireless technologies and protocols (CDMA, GSM, SMS messaging, MMS, WAP, XHTML, HDML, WML, etc.). Demonstrated knowledge and experience with standard networking concepts such as TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and their interactions in a wireless environment.
* Demonstrated experience in web application development using Java and PHP; experience developing databases such as MySQL; experience with HTML/CSS, SQL, C#, AJAX, Javascript, Java; or; experience with cross-browser environments, such as but not limited to, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari. Demonstrated knowledge for XML, SOAP, web services.
* Thorough knowledge and experience with the following platforms: Microsoft ASP and ASP.NET; Microsoft SQL Server 2000; and Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0/6.0. Experience with Visual Studio .NET 2003.
* Experience developing Facebook applications. Expertise with core components of the Facebook platform, including (1) the API which consists of a number of methods that allows one to add social context to applications (2) FMBL which allows for the integration of an application into Facebook (3) XFBML - extension to FBML - which allows one to incorporate FBML into Facebook Connect sites and IFrame applications (4) FQL - Facebook Query Language - which allows one to quickly and easily query for Facebook user data without using the API (5) FBJS - Facebook's method for allowing developers to incorporate JavaScript into their applications.
* Ability to convert existing programs to new or different platforms. Demonstrated experience in the installation, configuration, management and administration of Linux systems.
* Demonstrated experience working independently throughout all stages of software development as follows: Prototype stage: design and code: Beta stage: deploy, test and debug applications; Maintenance stage: develop procedures to test and verify programs, supply bug fixes, version support, and resolve problems in a multi-vendor environment.
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