Re: Contracting, Contracting

[Beth Ellison <BEllison -at- UTS -dot- Itron -dot- com>]

For those interested in the Raleigh NC job market--I recommend that you
check out the Research Triangle Park (RTP) online--SAS, IBM, Glaxo, Nortel,
many others have major offices there.  Look up Raleigh, Durham and Chapel
Hill newapapers online and cruise the classified ads(the Raleigh News &
Observer is a good one).  Red Hat Software is nearby and they're
hiring--again, check out the website.  I work at Itron/UTS and we're hiring
(see below).  There are many employment agencies around here (like Manpower,
Ablest Staffing, others) who place people in high-tech jobs, both permanent
and contract.  

Sorry I can't give you more specific names or leads, but these are good
places to start.

Beth Ellison
bellison -at- uts -dot- itron -dot- com

MV-90 Customer Support Analyst- 2 Openings
Job Description - Provide technical support for hardware and software
through phone and email systems.  Responsible for solving problems directly
or forwarding the problems to someone who can solve them, using help desk
software, providing management with information regarding support
activities, providing support for PCs and application software, supporting
end users on internally used applications, and distinguishing between
application and system problems.
Qualifications - Bachelors degree, minimum of 2 years experience in a
support role, ability to travel 25-50% of time.
Reports to:  Dave Gilland

MV-RS Customer Support Engineer - 1 Opening
Job Description - Provide technical support for a proprietary meter reading
product.  Includes hardware and software support for PCs, hand-held
computers, as well as other devices with which the product interfaces.
Responsibilities include:  diagnosing, documenting, and solving customer
issues, escalating issues to the engineering level, limited Q/A, and some
documentation. 
Qualifications - Bachelors degree or equivalent experience, minimum 2 years
experience in a customer service environment.  Must be able to interface
with many different types of customers, including mainframe programmers,
network administrators, PC operators and meter readers.  Thorough knowledge
of the following operating systems:  NT, 95/98, and DOS.  Network (Microsoft
or Novell) experience is helpful and is the ability to occasionally travel.

Reports to:  Chris Nowak

MV-STAR Software Engineer (C/C++) - 6 openings
Job Description - Design, code, test, and support enhancements and
extensions to software for electric, gas, and water utility data acquisition
and analysis.
Qualifications - 3 + years experience with full software life cycle
development using C/C++ on Unix. Oracle (or other relational database
development) experience is a also required.  Must be a motivated, autonomous
self started as well as a strong team player.  Desired skills are excellent
written and verbal communication skills, software analysis and technical
design skills, along with familiarity with object-oriented development
techniques.  Java would be a plus.
Reports to:  Steve Chall

MV-STAR Quality Assurance Specialist - 3 openings  
Job Description - Responsible for ensuring the quality of mission-critical
software for electric, gas, and water utility data acquisition and analysis.

Qualifications - 3 + year of testing full life cycle software development.
Must also have excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Must be a
motivated, autonomous self-started with a strong team player attitude!
Pluses would be a BS degree in a technical field, experience with relational
database-oriented software applications, leadership skills and familiarity
with Unix and Windows NT.
Reports to:  Steve Chall

MV-STAR Oracle Developer  - 2 Openings
Qualifications -  BS degree is computer science or related field or
equivalent experience, 3 + years experience developing and customizing
Oracle Forms applications, PL/SQL.  Pluses would be excellent communication
skills.
Reports to:  Steve Chall

MV-90 Training/Instructional Designer - 1 Opening
Job Description - Design, develop and deliver training materials related to
the administration and operation of MV-90 and MV-Web.  Also, develop a
certification program for both in-house and out of house trainers.  
Requirements - Bachelors degree or higher in Training, Instructional Design,
or technical field.  3-5 years of training experience, strong PC skills and
expertise with development tools.  Must also have excellent written and oral
communication skills, and experience in delivering systems training
materials.  15% travel is also required.
Reports to:  Tempe Lampe

MV-90 Quality Assurance Engineer - 1 Opening
Job Description - This position involves the testing and development cycle
processes of UTS C&I software (primarily MV-90 and MV-Web).  This position
may also deal with issues for customer and internal software problems
including, but not limited to, networking issues (NOS, transport,
communications), operating system issues, and interface issues.  The
position participates in formulating policies and procedures necessary to
develop, test, and distribute software systems produced by the UTS C&I
product group.  This position will be expected to have the capabilities to
take a leading role in the establishment and maintenance of an automated
software testing program at UTS for C&I software products.
Requirements - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related
fields or equivalent combination of training and experience.  3 + years
experience in one or more of the following areas:  Product Testing/QA,
Network Operations/Support (Novell or NT), Client/Server Development
Support.  Experience with industry-standard automated testing packages such
as QA Partner, WinRunner, etc..  Must be able to interface with software
development engineers to effect problem resolution and development strategy
along with the ability to rapidly absorb and learn new technology and
systems.  Also be able to work unsupervised, maintaining business focus and
goals and be flexible to organize and work on several open issues at once.
MCSE, CNE, MCP are all pluses along with utility industry or metering
experience.  
Reports to:  Tempe Lampe

Project Manager - 2 Openings
Requirements - Bachelors degree in Engineering or Computer Science.  2-4
years of project management experience in large software based system
deployments.  Due to being the primary customer interface, this position
also requires 50% travel - system deployments require a lot of on-site
visits to ensure the success of the project.  Proficiency in MSProject,
MSAccess are both required along with good time management skills and
proficiency in all other MSOffice products.  Pluses would be a degree in
business administration, experience in electric utility industry, billing
systems, information technologies, and CIS systems.
Reports to:  Chris Schafer

Technical Solutions Engineer - 1 Opening
Job Description - Assist in the sales of large, complex, integrated software
information systems to Electric and Gas IOUs by:  Working closely with
Territory Account Managers and Itron personnel to serve prospects and
customers as the technical consultant for Itron EIS products and services.
Assisting existing and potential customers in answering technical questions
in the areas of databases, networking, best action practices, back-end
integration, and client/server technologies.  Building creative demos with
existing and new products.  Providing technical expertise for prospects and
customers.  Making technical presentations and conduct product
demonstrations to various groups within the account as well as to
prospective customers.  Providing technical content for proposal and
responses to RFPs & RFQs.  Assuring success of each project through a
superior knowledge of applications.  Demonstrating ability to provide
technical solutions to customers.  Providing ongoing product feedback to
marketing, product and delivery personnel.
Qualifications - Minimum 3+  years experience in a pre-sales role, having
demonstrated excellent verbal and presentation skills to all levels of
corporate management. Minimum 3+ years experience in the development and
implementation of client/server systems, network administration, relational
database management systems, and software development process.  Required
working knowledge of Unix and Windows NT. Strong interpersonal,
communication, presentation and writing skills.  
Reports to:  George Lucas

Territory Account Manager - 2 Openings
Job Description - Sell large, complex, integrated software information
systems to Electric and Gas IOUs by:  Establishing, maintaining and growing
close working relationships throughout the IOU organization.  Partnering
with existing and new customers to identify business objectives of energy
information systems and map the business objectives to Itron products and
services.  Working closely with Itron product and delivery personnel to
ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.  Communicating customer
feedback to marketing, product and delivery personnel to better position
Itron's solutions.  Delivering creative presentations and demonstrations of
Itron solutions to all levels of the IOU. 
Qualifications - 10+ years industry experience in selling complex
information systems.  5+ years experience in the delivery of client/server
systems.  Solid expertise in managing complicated RFP/RFQ processes.  Proven
ability to build lasting relationships within the industry at all levels.
50% travel
Reports to:  George Lucas

Kerri Logan
Utility Translation Systems, Inc.
Raleigh, NC  27615
(919)876-2600 ext.1219
(919)876-4001 fax
KLogan -at- UTS -dot- Itron -dot- com