Dan Sirucek

Developer Advisor position – ColdFusion Developer with Flex Experience

dsirucek — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:07:56 +0000

Full description and apply at: http://www.careersatwellpoint.com/JobDescription.aspx?Identifier=39681

My team has a Developer Advisor position available. Specifically we are looking for an experienced ColdFusion developer. Flex experience would be great.

ColdFusion Position

dsirucek — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:13:29 +0000

My team is looking for a ColdFusion developer with Flex Experience. Interested individuals can send their resumes to Doug.LaFlamme@wellpoint.com for consideration, below is the offical job description.

Official career site: http://www.careersatwellpoint.com/Default.aspx. The position has not been posted.

Official Job Description

The incumbent will be responsible for planning, designing, and developing community-based learning systems, user rating/feedback systems, and reusable learning content assembly systems. Working on a team with Learning Technologists, Web Developers, and Database Administrators, you will performs analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation of complex ColdFusion and Flex applications to support learning and development initiatives.

You will work as part of a project team and may lead a defined section of a project. You will be responsible for:

Developing sub-project plans, functional specifications, related documentation, and schedules.
Performing design and coding tasks on very complex ColdFusion and Flex programs and applications.
Providing significant technical direction on major development projects.
Conceiving, proposing, and selling new ideas and products to support business needs, and guide the implementation of these ideas and products within an application.
Developing, testing, proofing, and maintaining Web content that is creative and consistent with WellPoint design standards.
Collaborating with the learning function leadership group, clients, and content owners on requirements, design, scheduling and publication.
Maintaining customer-focused Web site navigation structure (intuitive user interface).
Publishing content from development following established change control processes.
Previewing platforms to production platforms.
Performing configuration management, optimization, and rollbacks.
Monitoring learning Web site services to ensure 7 x 24 availability of content and functionality.
Monitoring and enforcing security rules and infrastructure, preserving the security of the Web site and related applications.
Developing and organizing content that supports consistent and accurate reporting.
Designing, developing, troubleshooting, debugging, and implementation of software code for components of the learning Web sites.
Working with graphic designers and other members of a project team to develop the site concept, interface design and architecture of the Web site.
Responsible for user acceptance testing, interface implementation, and system communication.
Staying current with new Web technologies and techniques.

You must have strong navigation and site design instincts, as well as working knowledge of Internet / Web tools, protocols and programming languages.

Two or more of the following:

Experience in designing and development, troubleshooting and debugging, and implementing software code (e.g., ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion) for components of a Web site
Proficient in ColdFusion 8 development
- User Interfaces
- Business Logic and CFCs
- Experience using ColdSpring framework
Experience in Object Oriented Design and Programming
Experience in AJAX development
Experience in Flex 3 development and Cairngorm framework

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. Leadership experience as a key member of a team developing large enterprise object oriented applications.

Programmer to Pilot

dsirucek — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:51:32 +0000

From programming in Flex and ColdFusion, I have now gotten into RC airplanes. The plane that got me hooked was the T-28 by ParkZone. Last year I tried buying a couple of cheap kits and got so frustrated putting them togehter that I gave up.

Well my brother was determined to get me hooked on flying. While visiting him in Northern Minnesota in July, I found the T-28 by Parkzone at a local hobby shop, bought it and now I am hooked.

WOW Overload!!

dsirucek — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:07:04 +0000

The WebManiacs 2008 conference has just wrapped up. I’m in overload mode. I attended both the CFManiacs and the FlexManiacs portions. It is was an excellent conference. There were so many hands-on session to choose from that sometimes it was hard to choose when there was a conflict and I took advantage of attending as many as possible. Here some of the ones I felt that I walked away having learned something new that I could apply back at work immediately (in no particular order).

Flex w/ColdFusion by Dave Gallerizzo
Rapid Application Prototyping with The Extending ColdFusion 8 AJAX Components by Steve “Cutter” Blade
Manipulating Microsoft Office Documents with ColdfFusion 8 by Steve Drucker

I really appreciated that Dave was willing to continue his session for an additional hour since no session was scheduled in the same room. For me, that last hour is when we got into the really really good stuff.

I can’t wait for next year!

PS. It seems everyone is blogging now at days and it does seem to be a good way to share information. So I have decided to as well. So this is my fist blog entry.