Location: San Francisco (Bay Area)

Type: Contract (6 months+) – Contract to hire possible

To Apply: If you are interested in this position, please forward your resume to: careers@cinetixsolutions.com. Please provide your current salary and required salary or contract rate with your response.

Description:

We are looking for a .Net/SharePoint Developer/Architect in the San Francisco Bay area to assist our client in developing enterprise applications. This position involves integrating enterprise LOB applications (ASP, Oracle, ColdFusion, Java) through service interfaces using the Fusion Middleware enterprise service bus. Solution is to be built and supported on the Microsoft Technology stack and appropriate integration technologies. Experience in .Net and SharePoint a must – combined with excellent communication skills.

Requirements:

• Excellent Communication Skills
• Ability to interact and effectively communicate with business executives to gather requirements, conduct UAT sessions and provide project timelines
• Ability to work within and across technical teams and across business units
• Ability to lead technical sessions to evaluate, design and implement technical solutions that span multiple teams and systems
• Experience with enterprise systems integration utilizing the Microsoft stack of technologies, including:

– ASP
– .NET
– C#
– MSSQL 2000/ TSQL (Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers)
– Extensive TSQL skills

• JavaScript
• Classic Web services with SOAP
• WCF
• HTML

Nice to Have: Oracle, Java, JQuery, ColdFusion. Experience with ChangePoint, Fusion Middleware ESB. Source control systems like PerForce or SVN

About Cinetix Solutions

Cinetix Solutions is a leading provider of IT services in the Northwest. We are a people centric organization that focuses on developing strong teams and experts in their field to deliver on challenging IT projects. A career with Cinetix Solutions provides challenging projects, gives you critical exposure to leading edge technologies, progressive business practices, and significant career growth opportunities. We provide a generous overall compensation package that includes: competitive direct compensation combined with generous benefits, annual profit sharing, and retirement savings accounts.

Click here for more information about careers with Cinetix Solutions. or see other job postings.

Join us (at our new digs in the TechSpace!) for an evening of informal discussion about the impact technology has had on the field of copyright and trademark law. And, of course, the impact this all has on businesses and geeks alike. (Yeah, I’m looking at you, you open-source zealots!)

Susan Stearns, a local copyright & trademark lawyer, has generously offered to lead a casual discussion and will kick things off with a brief overview of what copyright and trademark law is about, including highlights of how technology has affected some of her cases. However the bulk of the meeting will be spent in casual discussion with the audience on whatever topics or issues they have concerns about. Or as Susan put it, “Advice from a copyright/trademark lawyer… for free!”

NOTE: If you have specific topics of interest, please include them in the comment field when you RSVP, so Susan can do a little prep work prior to the meeting.

For more about Susan and her practice: http://stearnstmlaw.com

For more information, please see: BendTech

I was at the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas recently where I was grabbing a bite to eat with my conference buddy and a couple of Microsoft Product Managers that I had just met through twitter, including one who helped to organize the conference, and eventually our friendly waitress asked the inevitable question, “What is SharePoint, anyway?” An uncomfortably long silence ensued before one or the other of us gave her the most succinct answer we could. (How do you summarize such a powerful software to a non-technical person in under a minute? SharePoint is one of those things, like twitter, that is hard to describe in a nutshell – just Google, or Bing, “What is SharePoint?” to see how many times people have attempted to answer this question.)

We ultimately described SharePoint to our waitress as, “A web based collaboration software that allows users to easily share documents and other business information,” or something along those lines. Which is not a bad description, for starters. SharePoint, of course, is so much more than that. Enthusiastic “SharePoint for Project Management” author Dux Raymond Sy provides this succinct description, “SharePoint allows individuals in an organization to easily create and manage their own collaborative web sites,” but then goes on to elaborate. Microsoft puts forward its own somewhat wordy phrase, “The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web: Connect and Empower People, Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure, Rapidly Respond to Business Needs,” but also expands on each area. There is even a 7 part series (and counting?) that attempts to tackle the question.

SharePoint Business Value

Maybe a better question than “What is SharePoint?” is “What value can SharePoint bring to your business?” If you’re new to SharePoint, take a look at Microsoft’s conceptual video. Some light bulbs might go off in relation to your business. Then contact us and we can give you a demonstration of some of the business solutions we’ve built with SharePoint.

SharePoint is both a product and a foundation for building on the product

It is important to note that SharePoint is both a Product and a Software Platform. Although it has a robust out-of-the-box feature set, the beauty lies in the way it can be customized and extended for business use.

Some of our favorite SharePoint strengths:

• Easy web based collaboration between individuals within an organization
• Document management (storage, check in/check out, archiving & auditing)
• Business process management (workflows)
• Security (fine grained permissions, security trimming)
• Data connectivity with legacy systems
• SharePoint lists have a database table structure
• Robust search both within SharePoint and across related business sources
• Consistent navigation (dynamic, security trimmed)
• Web content management features
  
• Project management (tasks, Gantt views, custom lists)
• Active Directory and SQL Server integration
• Integration with familiar Office products
• Active developer & user community

Examples of the types of business solutions we’ve created with SharePoint:

• Business Intelligence dashboards that present high level KPIs, metrics,  & reporting
  (including PerformancePoint integration)
• Streamlined electronic workflows from formerly paper based processes
• User friendly information portals that consolidate business data from disparate sources
• Work order, help desk, & inventory applications
• End User and Power User training modules & user fairs
• Corporate branded intranet & extranet sites
• Custom web part development & integration
• Customized document management solutions
  (custom content types, metadata planning, & implementation)
• Cross application integrations

Clearly, it is a challenge to encapsulate all of the rich features of SharePoint into a tidy sound bite. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you leverage SharePoint to bring value to your business.

Your critical business data is trapped in legacy systems

Microsoft Partner information is located in disparate systems accessible via a wide array of user interfaces—it is not easily discovered and consumed by the team members who need it. The Microsoft Partner Program domain consists of data from 12+ distinct platforms built independently and integrated in an ad hoc method. Partner Program data ranges from simple attributes like name and location, to partner level, to sales generated over the lifetime of the relationship. In order for Microsoft to best leverage its Partner relationships, it needed to be able to easily locate and consume the data available, without an adverse impact on the existing systems.

Our Solution:

A single point of access to your data

BI Dashboard

Leveraging the myBI platform, Cinetix Solutions introduced new Business Intelligence tools to the Microsoft Partner organization to increase the value, visibility, and discoverability of all partner BI assets. The myBI platform is a hosted, integrated, and configurable Business Intelligence portal, providing expanded reporting, data mining and Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities. It allows business groups to expose the right information to the right users in the right format, and to gain business insight with Microsoft BI tools. This new platform not only supports a world class tool for business performance throughout the entire Partner organization, it also provides Microsoft with the resources that help it make accurate and confident business decisions every day.

Your salesforce needs enterprise-wide, consistent tools to meet their sales targets

Optimizing mountains of data to streamline and create consistent actionable information is a formidable challenge for Microsoft Corporation’s US Enterprise Product Group Sales Team. Prior to this content management consolidation and Business Intelligence effort, the critical assets were spread across individual desktops, varied ad hoc SharePoint sites, file shares, email threads, and the CRM system. The information was not searchable nor consistently accessible by geography, account hierarchy, or team role.

Our Solution:

A single tool to organize and quickly access your data

Recognizing the need for experienced vendor support, Microsoft brought in proven solution providers from Cinetix Solutions. Our consultants helped to identify and refine business requirements and provide project leadership in executing the development, test, and delivery of the solution.

Search Tool

• Utilized SharePoint to create a content management system to provide “one-stop” shopping for the 100K plus document library
• Created a one-page account level dashboard “cheat sheet” to refresh the entire account team on the most important account information
• Created a simple ASP.NET user interface to allow browsing and searching by customer, sales role, account hierarchy and geographical hierarchies as well as keywords
• Created a data mart and associated ETL to consolidate the data into key decision support documents
• Provided summary and detailed reporting that tracks account document compliance and supports the Microsoft sales methodology