1. I read an article today on LinkedIn accusing the Tech Industry of supposedly favoring younger employees over older, more skilled ones.  Click the picture to give a read yourself.  As someone that does quite a bit of hiring in the Tech industry, I can’t say I agree with this article at all.  I feel as though solid experience can beat out any other factor and above all, dependability and prompt delivery are more important in the interpersonal skill department.  What has been your experience?  Do you feel there is an undue age prejudice in the Tech industry?

    I read an article today on LinkedIn accusing the Tech Industry of supposedly favoring younger employees over older, more skilled ones.  Click the picture to give a read yourself.  As someone that does quite a bit of hiring in the Tech industry, I can’t say I agree with this article at all.  I feel as though solid experience can beat out any other factor and above all, dependability and prompt delivery are more important in the interpersonal skill department.  What has been your experience?  Do you feel there is an undue age prejudice in the Tech industry?

  2. Network/Systems Engineer needed in Indianapolis

    Role Description:

    • LAN Engineer position supporting various Corporate IT network services
    • This Engineer will provide router, Ethernet switch, firewall, Internet access, DNS, VPN, remote access, WAN carrier and other corporate related networking support along with Tier 3 Windows server environment support for business critical applications

    Required Skills:

    • Enterprise level Network experience
    • Virtualization with VMWare, and server support
    • Knowledge of Microsoft server products such as SQL Server, Exchange 2010
    • BS degree in Information Technology or related field with 3 to 5 years’ experience in computer information systems and LAN management
    • CCNA certification required
    • In-depth knowledge of Cisco IOS / ACS, etc.
    • In-depth knowledge of Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012
    • Experience in project management, documentation and work flows
    • Will need to help with Data Center Move to the north side of town

    Preferred Skills:

    • MCSE a plus
    • Some Security experience a major plus

    Role Type: Contract to Hire

    Location: Indianapolis, IN

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details

  3. How you might be unknowingly damaging your current and future reputation with social media is the topic of today’s blog.  I wrote a piece for my company blog on common mistakes we all make and what we might do to “clean up our online persona.”  Click the picture and give it a read. Have things you put up on the internet come back to haunt you?  If you googled yourself, would you like how you’re results represent you?  More importantly, would a prospective employer want to hire you based off of this information?

    How you might be unknowingly damaging your current and future reputation with social media is the topic of today’s blog.  I wrote a piece for my company blog on common mistakes we all make and what we might do to “clean up our online persona.”  Click the picture and give it a read. Have things you put up on the internet come back to haunt you?  If you googled yourself, would you like how you’re results represent you?  More importantly, would a prospective employer want to hire you based off of this information?

  4. Siebel UCM/Siebel Tools Developer needed in Indianapolis, IN

    Role Description:

    • The MDM Lead Developer is responsible for designing, documenting, developing, enhancing and supporting MDM initiatives including the customer master, which utilizes Siebel UCM
    • The creation, documentation, and maintenance of standards and patterns will also fall under this role, along with technical leadership of contract and shared resources
    • Maintenance of standards and patterns will also fall under this role, along with technical leadership of contract and shared resources

    Role Responsibilities:

    • Translate business and functional requirements into documented technical specifications including design documents and unit test plans
    • Utilize development skills to build and unit test new systems functionality per technical specifications, with deliverables to include code builds and documented unit test results
    • Provide technical leadership/direction to contract developers and part-time team members
    • Assist with application support documentation (release notes, build instructions) as required by the application support teams for acceptance of changes into production
    • Assist with troubleshooting, triaging and resolving issues discovered during QAT/UAT (testing phases)
    • Act as primary technical SME to provide technical input and estimates as necessary for new project requests, change requests, and production issues
    • Facilitate/lead reviews (walkthroughs) of technical specifications and program code with other members of the technical team, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality and limitations of systems/applications to team and development lead
    • Utilize departmental Systems Development Lifecycle Methodology as a guide for development activities
    • Provide on call and after hours support as required for production releases and to respond and provide Tier 1 support on production outages
    • Contribute to and work to meet project schedules by providing accurate estimates of effort required for development deliverables, by providing updates on project progress to development and project management, and by escalating issues that might affect project success to management
    • Maintain technical skills and expertise through continuing education and training
    • Collaborate with other teams and team members, both internal and external, including 3rd party vendors, quality and performance testing, change management, business analysts, project management, technical services, and support on successful delivery of systems and system enhancements

    Required Skills:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent
    • 3- 7 years of demonstrated expertise in Siebel/Siebel UCM (UCM 8.x preferred, certification preferred but not required)
    • Advanced level proficiency in Siebel Configuration (Business Components, Integration Objects, Views, Applets, etc.) and eScript (Business Services)
    • Expertise in Siebel EAI (http/s web services, XML, etc.), EIM and Workflow
    • Expertise in the underlying Siebel (PARTY) data model
    • Experience with PL/SQL, T-SQL, and performance tuning
    • Experience with creating and maintaining Survivorship Rules
    • Software development lifecycle experience
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
    • Effective problem solving and analytical skills
    • Ability to work independently as well as with a team
    • Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio)

    Preferred Skills:

    • Experience in Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (Profiling, Matching, Parsing, etc.)
    • Experience with Loqate (modifying, troubleshooting, etc.)
    • Previous development lead experience a plus

    Length: 6+months

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details

  5. My colleague, Heather Rominger, recently wrote a short piece on the importance of putting effort into your dress appearance at work.  Her goal is to emphasize the importance of “dressing to impress” not only for the work environment but it’s psychological affects on your performance.  While she doesn’t delve too far into that, she does offer up some great suggestions for looking sharp and keeping up with corporate fashion trends.  Would you say that corporate fashion is vital to a successful career?

    My colleague, Heather Rominger, recently wrote a short piece on the importance of putting effort into your dress appearance at work.  Her goal is to emphasize the importance of “dressing to impress” not only for the work environment but it’s psychological affects on your performance.  While she doesn’t delve too far into that, she does offer up some great suggestions for looking sharp and keeping up with corporate fashion trends.  Would you say that corporate fashion is vital to a successful career?

  6. Java Developer needed in Indianapolis

    Role Responsibilities:

    • Contributing to the overall design and architecture of the client’s products
    • Designing, coding, and testing new features and functionality based on requirements provided
    • Performing software maintenance and bug fixes
    • Participating in design and code reviews, documentation of design, and implementation of SDLC methodologies to ensure high quality software
    • Providing documentation and training courses to solution architects, implementation engineers and clients
    • Provide support in the sales process when needed
    • Responsible for designing, developing and implementing connectivity solutions and healthcare solutions using the client’s core platforms
    • Responsible for handling technical customer issues and providing support for current customers and software partners
    • Troubleshoot software application problems

    Required Skills:

    • Four-year degree in CS, MIS or related field
    • 1+ year experience with software design and development
    • 1 year+ professional experience doing enterprise Java development
    • Experience in developing multithreaded and transactional server applications
    • Experience in software design patterns
    • A thorough understanding of common agile development methodologies such as Iterative development
    • A thorough understanding of the concepts and components required for software interfaces and integration
    • Demonstrated troubleshooting and problem solving skills
    • Excellent analytical skills
    • Professional skills in working with various relational database systems
    • Ability to work both independently and in small team environments required
    • Prefer to understand the concept of middle ware, the Enterprise Service Bus, and how to design and develop a high-performance, and highly-scalable system

    Preferred Skills:

    • Application software support experience
    • Eclipse plugin development or Google Web Toolkit development experience

    Role Type: Direct Placement

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details

  7. My colleague, Hayley Foster, posted an interesting blog recently about the effects exercise and balanced nutrition can have on our brain health and our work performance in general.  As someone who is counted on to work diligently in service of others, I found this information to be very interesting and beneficial.  Click the pic and give it a read!  How does fitness assist you in your daily life?  Would you agree that taking an active interest in daily exercise and nutrition would significantly increase your mental performance on the job?

    My colleague, Hayley Foster, posted an interesting blog recently about the effects exercise and balanced nutrition can have on our brain health and our work performance in general.  As someone who is counted on to work diligently in service of others, I found this information to be very interesting and beneficial.  Click the pic and give it a read!  How does fitness assist you in your daily life?  Would you agree that taking an active interest in daily exercise and nutrition would significantly increase your mental performance on the job?

  8. Director of User Experience needed in Indy

    Required Skills:

    • Demonstrated experience conducting user research and translating user research into design decisions
    • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Psychology, Sociology, Human Factors, Business or related discipline from accredited university
    • 5 years relevant industry experience (B2B experience preferred)
    • Master’s degree preferred
    • Must have excellent analytical ability, especially in observing user behavior and identifying key problems that need to be addressed
    • Broad understanding of front-end development aspects for software and systems

    Role Type: Direct Placement or Contract to Hire

    Location: Indianapolis, IN

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details

  9. Good article here with some quick tips on good body language to exhibit during an interview.  Click the pic to check out a good prep site for job seekers and recruiters alike, recruiter.com.  I strongly believe proper body language can make or break an interview.  How many of these do you already practice?

    Good article here with some quick tips on good body language to exhibit during an interview.  Click the pic to check out a good prep site for job seekers and recruiters alike, recruiter.com.  I strongly believe proper body language can make or break an interview.  How many of these do you already practice?

  10. Oracle DBA opportunity in Indianapolis, IN

    Role Description:

    • Primary responsibilities for the support of Oracle / SQL Server databases, Oracle, Application servers support EBS and Integration environments
    • This Includes installation, updates/patches, upgrades, tuning, optimization, backups and resource management

    Required Skills:

    • 4-6 years as Oracle 9i/10G DBA experience
    • Production Level DBA, not a developer who does DBA once in a while
    • 2+ years working with high demand based, service oriented environment on UNIX/Windows
    • Strong working knowledge of Database design fundamentals and the use of modeling tools [ERWIN preferred] for logical and physical data modeling
    • Working knowledge of the architecture, implementation, and support of an enterprise data warehouse
    • Participate in 24X7X365 on-call rotation

    Preferred Skills:

    • RAC
    • SAN
    • Oracle Applications Suite (EBS) experience
    • Dataguard, Flash Back

    Role Type: Direct Placement

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details

  11. Do you have a terribly difficult boss? Today’s blog link comes to us from the Ask Annie column at Fortune.  She was asked how to deal with a hypercritical boss.  Assuming you don’t want quiting to be your go to, she has some excellent tips to diffuse this unfortunate situation.  Click the pic to give this a read.  If you have a difficult boss, do you think any of these tips will help you?  Have you ever overcome a difficult boss trying alternative tactics?  If so, what did you do?

    Do you have a terribly difficult boss? Today’s blog link comes to us from the Ask Annie column at Fortune.  She was asked how to deal with a hypercritical boss.  Assuming you don’t want quiting to be your go to, she has some excellent tips to diffuse this unfortunate situation.  Click the pic to give this a read.  If you have a difficult boss, do you think any of these tips will help you?  Have you ever overcome a difficult boss trying alternative tactics?  If so, what did you do?

  12. Linux Administrator needed in Indianapolis, IN

    Role Description:

    • Linux System Administrators are responsible for daily availability and performance of the Linux systems in the environment
    • Individual will provide technical support for all aspects of the systems availability, implementation and maintenance

    Required Skills:

    • Bachelor’s degree
    • Strong communication skills – written and verbal
    • Thrives in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
    • 8 to 10 years of Linux Systems Administration experience in the following environments:
    • Multiple Linux distributions, including RedHat Enterprise, CentOS and Ubuntu
    • DNS
    • Account management
    • VMware Administration
    • Administer Virtual Infrastructures (VMware) including provisioning, reporting, monitoring and maintenance of virtual machines and ESX (3.5 and higher a plus) server management across a worldwide deployment
    • Performance tune Linux virtual machines on VMware ESXi, as well as on physical hardware
    • Manage VMware connectivity with shared storage (SAN) solutions

    Preferred Skills:

    • ESX (3.5 and higher a plus)
    • Hadoop Clusters, Redis, Flume and Zookeeper experience a plus
    • Knowledge of scripting languages, including Bash, Perl and Ruby are a plus

    Role Type: Direct Placement

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details

  13. Quick and interesting read on forbes today (click the pic).  Would You Hire Yourself?  I find this of value to job seekers because it helps put in perspective what you can control when it comes to competing in the job market.  So after reading the article, let me pose this question to you…would you hire yourself and why?

    Quick and interesting read on forbes today (click the pic).  Would You Hire Yourself?  I find this of value to job seekers because it helps put in perspective what you can control when it comes to competing in the job market.  So after reading the article, let me pose this question to you…would you hire yourself and why?

  14. Drupal Developer needed in Indianapolis, IN

    Role Description:

    Local onsite Drupal developer to join existing team for multiple web based project opportunities

    Required Skills:

    • Drupal 1-3+ years of experience from entry to intermediate level
    • Needs to have solid programming basics with Drupal 7
    • Web development experience
    • Forms development experience
    • Experience with Dashboards and Single Sign On sites
    • Experience moving data between systems

    Preferred Skills:

    • PHP- 3-5+ years solid development, UI, Integration & backend
    • REST, API’s - any experience at all would be a NTH
    • Solid integration experience

    Role Type: Open to either contract to hire or direct placement

    Feel free to contact me at mpeterson@theoris.com (you can attach your resume and preferred rate) or call 317-968-9844 if you’re interested in learning more details.