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Job Opening: Senior Web Application Developer – PHP / Zend Framework

"Just Call Delta" Today!

Delta Systems Group, Columbia, MO is hiring web application developers

http://www.JustCallDelta.com

Do you have a passion for helping companies? Are you skilled in WordPress, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, XML, Zend Framework? Delta Systems, an online application development company headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, offers an exciting and high-energy work environment. As a rapid application development company, we minimize over-engineering and empower you to make decisions and manage tasks.

Work Environment:

Since 1986, Delta has been building tracking systems for everything from napkins to insurance policies, from golf courses to hot dog ingredients, from horse ailments to yoga certifications, and from blood donors to paddlefish. Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Read about Delta in the Columbia Daily Tribune

Delta Systems has been named “one of Mid-Missouri’s foremost web design and support firms” by the Columbia Daily Tribune and “a premier providers of computing solutions” by the Columbia Business Times. Our employees enjoy many freedoms and benefits. We do group coding weekly for reviews and single-project focusing to knock out features, do some spec work, or just put an app together to find and fix issues quickly. Free lunch-and-learn sessions provide opportunities for ongoing training.

Delta Systems employees exemplify professionalism in every aspect of client relations and work.

Typical daily activities:

* Work along other senior developers to provide PHP programming and functionality for a wide variety of consumer related websites, intranets, extranets, and web-based applications
* Be challenged on a daily basis to solve problems in new and creative ways
* Design, evaluate, update, and maintain object oriented applications in PHP
* Design, evaluate, update, and maintain complicated database schemas in PostgreSQL and SQL Server
* Share your opinions and insights with business leaders on a daily basis in order to affect rapid decision cycles and effective solutions to business requirements

Benefits:

- Paid by the hour
- Flex time – If you like working from 7am to 3pm or 3pm to 11pm great!
- Health Insurance, 95% paid by employer
- SIMPLE retirement plan with corporate matching
- Dental
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- Paid holidays
- AFLAC

Perks:

- Free soda, tea, coffee and occasional lunches.
- Development environments: Ubuntu, Windows, or Mac, whichever
- Subscription to O’Reilly Media
- Enjoy “Virtual Tuesdays”; you can work from anywhere you want.
- Dress is casual – jeans and t-shirts are just fine. When meeting with clients, we expect business appropriate attire and demeanor.

What we look for in you:

* 2 years of solid PHP and MySQL/PostgreSQL
* Experience with a MVC framework (Zend Framework, Cake, Symphony, Codeigniter)
* Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript libraries (YUI, jQuery)
* Capabilities in working with WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla, etc
* The ability to translate business requirements into system design.
* Develop solutions based on organizational and users’ needs, strategies, and goals, including recommending improvements based on researching and evaluating web software.
* Successful track record of working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
* Exceptional debugging skills
* Experience with Version Control Systems (subversion, github, etc)
* Zend PHP5 and/or Zend Framework Certification: If you’re not already certified, be expected to work towards obtaining certification. We’ll even pay for the first test.

BONUS Talents Sought:

* Know your way around Basecamp
* Experience deploying to a load-balanced environment
* Experience with the Zend Framework
* Ability to administer Linux servers running CentOS 5
* Familiarity with Xdebug
* Linux Server administration experience (Preferably Plesk)
* Zend PHP5 Certified
* Zend Framework Certified

DO NOT APPLY if you:

* are “learning” PHP and want some experience
* are representing a company and want us to outsource to you

Email resumes to info@deltasys.com

Please no phone calls.

This job will also be posted on Craigslist, jobs.zend.com, dice.com, when we get around to it.

The true-false Film Festival in Columbia, MO

This is the first in a series of efforts that Delta Systems has committed to the Columbia, MO born True/False festival.

Click to Learn more about the True/False Boone Dawdle Event

This summer, True/False decided to create a new event to accompany the annual film festival.  On August 21st, the First Annual Boone Dawdle will take place, consisting of a bike ride from Columbia to Rocheport, followed by a local food picnic hosted by Les Bourgeois vineyards, and a screening of documentary film “Best Worst Movie” accompanied by its director and star.

David and Paul have graciously allowed Delta Systems to work on the technical stuff with some of their amazing volunteers.

To manage the first ever Dawdle successfully, True/False asked Delta to create a ticket purchasing and reporting system.  The system allows multiple passes to be purchased at once, handles payment processing seamlessly, empowers the festival staff to manage content, and provides powerful reports to help staff manage the logistics of the event.

Delta Builds Tracking Systems

"Just Call Delta" Today!

Since 1986, Delta has been building tracking systems for everything from napkins to insurance policies, from golf courses to hot dog ingredients, from horse ailments to yoga certifications, and from blood donors to paddlefish.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

How can we help? Give us a call and discuss it for free.

Eldon, MO School District's New Website

Eldon, MO launched a new website for each school in their district this week

For our latest project, Delta Systems was asked to design and develop a comprehensive solution for managing the websites of the Eldon School District and each of its indiviual schools. The challenge was to seamlessly and comprehensively distribute the management responsibilities of the site across the schools, rather than have everything controlled at the central office.

Using the Multi-Site functionality built into WordPress 3.0 (formerly exclusive to WordPress MU), we were able to build a system that allows moderators within each individual school to update and maintain their own respective sub-sites while leaving administrators at central office the ability to oversee the entire system from a single login.

We are WordPress Experts

Now, the district can spread out the responsibilities of content updating by school, department, and teacher, avoiding the potential of a bottleneck at the central office.

Client Quotes

“The new website looks amazing! We are getting a lot of nice comments about it.”
Colleen McGirl – Secretary to the Superintendent

“Like the banner! Like the design! Everything looks great.”
Matt Davis – Superintendent

Check out the new website at http://www.eldon.k12.mo.us/

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of development, design, and computer network support talent.

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Do we build simple websites too? You bet. And we do it well using WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, and custom solutions.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

The Tofle and Oxenhandler website shows hidden treasures as you hover over the squares

When Josh Oxenhandler approached Delta Systems about building a new website, he wanted to make sure the site featured the unique art and artifacts that his firm has collected over the years.

Delta was able to transform a single, wrinkled-up piece of paper illustrating the design idea into a site that they are proud of.

Their contact form is helping them generate new business leads all the time.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of development, design, and computer network support talent.

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Do we build simple websites too? You bet. And we do it well using WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, and custom solutions.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Student Entrepreneur Workshop and Pitch Event - Aug 16-17

The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is partnering with market intelligence and advisory firm, Guidewire Group, on the Innovate!2010 global competition to identify and promote up-and-coming technology and media startups. The two-day workshop and event will include a student-only workshop and pitch review, a professional pitch slam, guest speakers on creating a successful business, and a review of local opportunities to help get your idea off the ground.

For more information, visit the website or read the Innovate 100 – Student Entrepreneur Workshop and Pitch Event PDF.

The Callaway Bank's Updated Website (Click to View)

Delta Systems was called upon to tweak http://www.CallawayBank.com. Delta previously built an entire new website for The Callaway Bank back in 2008.

The Callaway Bank desired to make their announcements more prominent on the page as well as add an image carousel. Oh, and we also improved all their graphics again to give the entire site a fresh look.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of development, design, and computer network support talent.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Screenshot of the new petwisewebsites.com

Delta was asked to create a new “service centric” look for http://www.petwisewebsites.com

They liked our solution so much, they then asked us to design 5 additional templates for their clients that use Petwise for their veterinary practice online presence.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of development, design, and computer network support talent.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Do we build simple websites too? You bet. And we do it well using WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, and custom solutions.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

This week, Delta Systems launched our first site utilizing the newest features in WordPress 3.0. The lucky recipient was a local Columbia heating & cooling company called Timmerman’s Maintenance Technology.

Tom Timmerman needed a simple site showing his phone number, a list of services, and a few customer testimonials. Delta Systems, working along with local media group Boxcar Films, gave him a fresh and fun design that did exactly that.

Not being overly experienced in web development and content management systems, Tom also wanted to ensure that he would be able to update his services list and insert new testimonials with ease. That’s where the new WordPress custom post type feature came into play.

The backend of Timmerman's website using the new WordPress custom post type feature

Delta Knows WordPress 3.0 Custom-Post Types

Using custom-tailored forms, Tom can now add, change, or remove items from his list of services with 2 clicks of the mouse. And when a customer pays him a compliment, he can just as easily add a testimonial to the page in the same way.   Either way, the output is instantly styled and published to his homepage, making this one of our most user-friendly content management experiences to date.

Check out the site at http://www.TimmermansHVAC.com

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of development, design, and computer network support talent.

How is Delta different? The Only Way to Know is to Talk to Us

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Do we build simple websites too? You bet. And we do it well using WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, and custom solutions.

We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Visit Steelhead Entertainment.com

Steelhead Entertainment is an online community of artists, promoters, venues, and music industry professionals brought together in the name of metal. Utilizing a mixture of two off-the-shelf systems, Jamroom and WordPress, the team at Delta Systems created custom skins and templates to provide a seamless transition between the two.

This is not Delta’s first foray into the music business. Previously, Delta Systems helped to create AirPlay Direct – an online community of 5,000 radio stations and 24,000 artists from around the world.

Screenshot of the site

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of development, design, and computer network support talent.

Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, online, and programming needs since 1986.  Ask around.

You’ll hear people say, “Just call Delta” so much that we made it our website – http://JustCallDelta.com

Delta Systems is pleased to be the Field Sponsor for Kickballapalooza, a Columbia, MO Chamber of Commerce event.