by Ronald Barron | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Corporate Event Set Designer // Event Stage Designer
Remote – United States only
Creative Services /Full-time /Remote
Meeting Tomorrow is a 20-year-old company with a growing team of 85 friendly employees. We’re headquartered in Chicago, with 80% percent of our team working remotely in cities all over the country. We produce in-person, hybrid, and virtual events and rent equipment that brings people together. Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, and we pride ourselves on providing the best customer experience in the events industry. We offer the greatest coworkers you’ll find anywhere, great benefits, and the opportunity to work in a dynamic, team-oriented, entrepreneurial environment. We can’t wait to meet you!
The Opportunity:
Meeting Tomorrow is looking for an experienced Event Set Designer to bring creativity and beautiful aesthetics to our clients’ events. The Event Set Designer will be responsible for crafting stunning event design solutions and developing the designs from concept to production. This role is dedicated to translating our clients’ visions into cohesive stage and scenic designs, compelling decor, layouts, and impactful visual representations of their brand. The Event Set Designer collaborates closely with teams, from initial client pitch to final production, to craft innovative concepts, themes, and elements that elevate our clients’ brands and bring their visions to life on stage and throughout their events. This role will leverage their expertise in 3D modeling, digital rendering, stage design, and graphic design to ensure our clients’ brands shine across scenic, print, and digital deliverables. The ideal candidate has a complimentary range of skill sets that will allow them to thrive in this position. Meeting Tomorrow supports events for our clients of all types and sizes including conferences, internal meetings, sales and marketing events, and many others. These events can be in person, hybrid, or virtual and the customer needs can be event-specific or ongoing.
Main Responsibilities include:
• Collaborate with our Creative, Sales, Production Teams and Clients to visualize, conceptualize, and design visually captivating, on-brand solutions for our clients’ events.
• Create 3D renderings of proposed scenic solutions to help clients visualize options.
• Meet with clients to listen to their event needs, requirements, and pitch ideas.
• Generate ideas for all aspects of the event from the main stage AV & scenic to furniture, floral, decor, and custom fabrication.
• Understands the scale of stage set pieces and audiovisual equipment and what is possible from a technical perspective.
• Match vision with reality by sourcing solutions from our vendor partners, and researching, identifying, and vetting new vendors as needed.
• Must understand estimated costs of proposed solutions to ensure that what they are proposing meets the clients budget needs.
• Create event seating layouts and floor plans.
• Support our clients and creative team by implementing the clients brand, content, and collateral through all relevant materials including but not limited to graphic design projects such as signage, event logos, and presentation slide templates.
• Responsible for moving along the design process and hitting all design deadlines. This includes renderings for proposal pages pre-sale and supporting our internal teams with finalizing deliverables post-sale.
• Supports our creative team by contributing to internal projects such as improvements to processes, developing sales materials, developing resources and asset libraries.
• Researching and understanding industry and design trends to keep ideas fresh.
What we need:
Creativity: As a creative event set designer, it’s essential that you’re able to think of innovative and exciting ways to visually communicate ideas. You will use creative thinking to understand our clients’ goals and needs, then translate these into meaningful, impactful, fresh, and modern solutions aligned with their project objectives and briefs.
Communication skills: Actively listening to client and team design goals, articulating creative ideas effectively, managing expectations, and adeptly conveying project visions. Additionally, skilled in presenting with a friendly demeanor and fostering collaborative teamwork.
Time management: Ability to manage several projects at the same time. It’s important that this role takes ownership of their assigned events, keeps the designs moving, and the projects on track.
Software knowledge: Proficiency in 3D modeling and rendering software, mastery of tools necessary for producing deliverables, and the ability to conceptualize, illustrate, and generate graphics using industry-standard design software.
Production knowledge: Comprehensive fulfillment, sourcing, and production experience, coupled with the ability to cultivate and maintain strong vendor relationships.
Experience:
It’s Important that this person has created a variety of solutions in the corporate event space, a blend of creative abilities and technical knowledge.
• Strong presentation, organization, and communication skills.
• Project and timeline management experience.
• Must have a portfolio that demonstrates excellent concept development, design skills and capability, along with end-product, real world event documentation.
• Proficient in CAD and 3D rendering software. Sketchup Pro, Vray, and Vectorworks are required.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud design software, primarily Photoshop and Illustrator. Secondary experience in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects is a plus.
• Ability to create technical drawings, floor plans, lighting and rigging plots for large scale events.
• Sourcing and production experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design or equivalent job experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a similar role.
The Impact
Within 1 month you’ll have:
• Met all key stakeholders and team members that you will be working with
• An understanding of our service offering for decor, staging, furniture
• Reviewed all of our relevant processes to understand how things currently are working
• A deep knowledge of the Meeting Tomorrow brand A full understanding of the Event Production industry and top trends Reviewed our previous stage renderings and our top clients
In 3 months you’ll have:
• At least 10 design consultations under your belt
• Familiar with all of our current scenic, furniture, floral vendors and have your own relationships with them
• Updated our Stage Design guide with new looks
• Started building out new templates and processes for the creative process and deliverables
• Shadowed sales calls and attended at least one live event
In 6 months you’ll have:
• Full autonomy in your role
• Been a part of brainstorming, designing and pitching 5 winning event designs
• Expanded our vendor network to have new options for clients in all mid-tier and major markets
• Helped build out new products and creative service offerings
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Data Scientist (USA/Remote)
Location: United States
Full time
Job Description:
The Company:
ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.
The Team
Our Health Engineering Solutions (HES) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a Data Scientist who will be a key driver to make this happen.
This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and also prohibits personal VPN connections.
Key responsibilities include:
- Document and communicate requirements for data engineers
- Work with data engineers to ensure that Spark/Scala pipelines are implemented properly
- Understand GLMs/mixed-effects models and their inner workings across programming languages
- Assess accuracy of measure implementations
- Analyze large amounts of data to find inconsistencies using Zeppelin notebooks (Scala/Python)
- Communicate with external partners around requirements
The work effects the quality and cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients through the Quality Payment Program. You will be involved in a highly successful team that has a long track record of meeting deadlines and delivering quality.
Job Duties:
- Working consistently scripting and analyzing data.
- Consistent JIRA and Confluence use.
- Must attend Scrum Ceremonies and Test Meetings.
- The position is remote however we work East Coast hours and meetings may start as early as 9:00 AM Eastern Time. Core hours also apply.
- Some travel may be required for in-person Program Increment Planning events.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (preferred in Computer Science, IT or a related field).
- 5 years’ experience in software or data development.
- 3 or more years use of on-the-job level of coding skills in Python/R, or other similar languages.
- 3 or more years working in a data scientist/analyst role.
- 2 or more years of experience with any SQL dialect.
- Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
- Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S.
- Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years.
Professional Skills:
- Strong problem-solving skills, able to work independently.
- Ability and desire to take ownership of and initiative for analyses, from requirements clarification to deliverables.
- Strong technical communication skills; both written and verbal.
- Ability to understand and articulate the “big picture” and simplify complex ideas.
- Ability to identify and learn new techniques independently as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 years’ experience with Master’s degree.
- Prior experience working with Medicare and/or Medicaid data, especially claims data and familiarity with claims codes (HCPCS/CPT/ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS).
- Prior experience with Spark/PySpark/SparkR for analyzing large amounts of data.
- Advanced SQL querying skills and database management knowledge.
- Git/Github experience.
- Have worked in an agile environment.
- Have used Confluence and Jira.
- Experience working on a project using the Scaled Agile Framework.
- Experience on a software development team building modern software products.
- Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Staff Test Architect – Cloud Data Platform (Remote)
Location: United States
Full time
Job Description:
We are the makers of possible
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us-from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year-to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.
We are seeking an experienced Software Test Architect to join our dynamic team focused on testing and ensuring the quality of our Cloud Data & Analytics Platform. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in architecting and implementing robust testing strategies, frameworks, and processes to support the development and deployment of our cloud-based data solutions.
The Software Technology Solutions (STS) organization is BD’s global software innovation engine that enables smart connectivity, data driven insights across devices, with world class technology capabilities to make a difference in patient lives. In STS, we offer flexibility so you can successfully balance your work and personal responsibilities. We care about our associates and ensure we have servant leaders to help you grow your career, provide feedback and recognition, and empower you to show up every day as your authentic self. We are passionate about improving patient outcomes through agile delivery and developing innovative software. Armed with a growth mindset and a desire to want to do more, learn more, impact more, you are in a great position to join STS as a Staff Test Architect to help BD advance the world of health in ways you may never have imagined in your career.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and design end-to-end testing strategies for our Cloud Data & Analytics Platform, ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional, performance, security, and reliability aspects.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and quality assurance teams to integrate testing processes seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Develop and implement automated testing frameworks for REST APIs, data processing, data visualization components within the cloud platform.
- Define and enforce best practices for testing within a cloud-native environment, taking into consideration scalability, resilience, and security.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective test scenarios and cases.
- Lead efforts to identify and mitigate testing challenges related to distributed systems, data pipelines, and serverless modular architecture.
- Establish performance testing strategies for data-intensive applications and provide recommendations for optimization.
- Conduct code reviews and provide guidance on test automation best practices to the Development and test teams.
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in cloud testing and data engineering.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience as a Software Test Architect or similar role with a focus on cloud-based data platforms.
- In-depth understanding of cloud computing concepts, particularly in platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of data processing technologies, databases, and distributed systems.
- Experience with test automation tools and frameworks, such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, and Apache JMeter.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Scala.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a keen attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Title: Senior Manager, Staff Engineering – IaaS (Cluster Management) (REMOTE)
Location: Remote
Job Description:
time type
Full time
job requisition id
R0050504
Position Description
Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve, and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the speed of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The Cluster Management team’s mission is to bring to reality the next-generation container cluster management and orchestration platform on Kubernetes that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building and maintaining highly secure cluster management platform based on Kubernetes running on private and public clouds.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will:
- Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
- Management responsibility for a team of Kubernetes based multi-cluster management platform including policy, compliance, risk, governance, operations, and support
- Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
- Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
- Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
- Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
- Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
- Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
- Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
- Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals
Qualifications
- Software and system design knowledge and experience
- Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
- Knowledge in Operating Systems, Linux, Virtual Machines, Container (Docker/Containerd), Cluster Management (Kubernetes) technologies including running on private and public cloud infrastructure.
- Development and Management experience in one or all the following:
- Cluster and container management based on Kubernetes running in private and public cloud or bare metal
- Multi-cluster networking based on service mesh like ISTIO, Linkerd, Envoy or Consul
- Multi-cluster metrics, observability, and operations with frameworks such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger
- Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations
- Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Anchore, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns
- Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
- Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
- Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action.
Experience
- 6+ years coding experience
- 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
- 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment
- 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
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by Ronald Barron | Oct 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
About the Role
Senior Backend Engineer
IT /Full-Time /Remote
CrossFit is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our new Product Platform for CrossFit. In this pivotal role, you will be an integral part of our engineering team, tasked with architecting a resilient, scalable, and cutting-edge backend infrastructure. This infrastructure will form the backbone of our CrossFit ecosystem, enhancing our software product offerings, streamline business operations, and create a unified platform for collaboration with our partners. Leveraging your deep expertise, you will lead the evolution of our REST APIs and backend computing, ensuring their flawless integration across different platforms and contributing significantly to a superior user experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
●Lead the development of scalable, secure backend systems for our CrossFit Product Platform.
●Design, build, and maintain high-quality REST APIs to facilitate seamless backend integration for partners, as well as flawless interaction with web and mobile clients.
●Design and implement a microservices architecture, optimizing communication and data exchange between components.
●Ensure cloud infrastructure reliability and security, adhering to cloud computing best practices.
●Promote and execute CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment workflows.
●Champion test-driven development (TDD) methodologies to improve code quality and facilitate maintenance.
●Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and launch new features.
●Mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence.
●Keep abreast of and integrate new technologies to enhance platform performance and user experience.
●Contribute to refining our development process, emphasizing best practices in coding, testing, and maintenance.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL:
●Proficiency in Python and extensive experience in microservices development.
●Expertise in RESTful API development and integration.
●Skilled in container technologies, orchestration tools, and both SQL and NoSQL databases.
●Knowledge and experience with CI/CD practices and tools.
●A strong advocate and practitioner of test-driven development (TDD).
●Familiarity with data warehouse technologies and strategies, capable of managing large datasets and complex data models.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
● At least 10 years of backend development experience, with a solid background in distributed systems and cloud solutions.
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