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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 to 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 (work 32,42, or 52 hours a week – pay doesn’t stop after 40 hours)
- Flex time – If you like working from 7am to 3pm or 3pm to 11pm great!
- Health Insurance, 85% 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
- We’ll pay for applicable certification exams
- 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)
* Know your way around Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, etc.
* Know your way around Google Analytics, Omniture, etc.
* eCommerce platform experience (Magento, etc)
* 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, dice.com, Indeed.com, etc when we get around to it.

Read more about the 2011 Boone Dawdle in the Columbia Daily Tribune

Delta Systems was proud to sponsor the 2011 Boone Dawdle. Once again, our contribution was the creation and management of the online ticket purchasing and reporting system.

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

A Short History of the Dawdle

Delta Sponsors the 2011 Boone Dawdle

In the summer of 2010, True/False decided to create a new event to accompany their annual film festival. On August 21st, 2010 the First Annual Boone Dawdle took 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.

Paul Sturtz and David Wilson 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 allowed multiple passes to be purchased at once, handled payment processing seamlessly, empowered the festival staff to manage content, and provided 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.

Adobe Contribute CS5

We have a client that uses Adobe Contribute to edit their website.  Since they are also a support client of ours and our current preference for Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware is ESET NOD32, she had that installed on her machine as well.  As it happens, there is an, as yet, undocumented issue in that ESET NOD32 blocks SFTP traffic from Contribute.

ESET NOD32 blocks SFTP traffic from Adobe Contribute

To resolve the issue and allow secure FTP communication:

1. Open ESET NOD32
2. Click “Entire Advanced Setup Tree”
3. Navigate to “Web Access Protection” -> “Web Browsers”
4. In the list of apps, locate any checkboxes for the Contribute.exe
5. Uncheck the box(es)
6. Retry the connection in Contribute

More information can be found in the Adobe User Forums, specifically Contribute CS5 won’t connect to SFTP

Read the Story about "Trading Equity for Services"

Delta Systems is proud to have helped SoccerPro.com in the early stages of their success that helped lead them to their successful growth partnership.

Read the “Trading Equity for Services” story in Inc. Magazine.

Read more about how Delta Systems helped SoccerPro.com increase sales by 600%

At Delta Systems it costs nothing to find out exactly what we can do to help you experience triple-digit growth. 

Give us a call today to experience The Delta Difference for yourself.

The 2009 Mizzou Homecoming Blood Drive Donor Tracking System is Live! Live statistics can be viewed at http://www.donateblood.com/graphs/linegraphs.asp

The University of Missouri has partnered with the American Red Cross for more than two decades in pulling off some of the largest blood drives in the United States. Delta Systems has been providing registration systems and support services for every Homecoming blood drive and Greek Week blood drive since at least 1992.

Blood Drive Collection Statistics for 2008

AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce the establishment of its Nashville office and the appointment of long-time Music Row songwriter/plugger Raleigh Squires as Operations Manager.

AirPlay Direct now has over 20,000 artist / label members and over 4,000 radio station members in 110 countries around the world.

Dolly Parton Releases New Single To Radio Exclusively Through Airplay Direct – Dolly has decided to release her latest single, “Change It” – from the Broadway Musical, “9 to 5,” exclusively through AirPlay Direct with no traditional means of radio promotion.

Alligator Records, the country’s leading and most celebrated independent blues and roots rock label, is digitally distributing its catalog free to radio stations globally through AirPlay Direct

AirPlay Direct is an easy to use digital file transfer system that was developed to streamline radio / artist promotion activities for today’s music industry. AirPlay Direct’s FREE services replace the unnecessary time and expense of putting together and sending out costly traditional artist packages and press kits via snail mail. Utilizing the AirPlay Direct system also allows an artist to positively impact the environment by eliminating needless packaging.

The new AirPlay Direct website has launched. AirPlay Direct is a free digital file transfer system for the music industry. It allows artists to create profile pages and drive radio programmers to their profile where DJ’s can download broadcast-quality tracks and artist press kit information securely and efficiently. The old model of servicing radio has been shattered.

The AirPlay Direct Platform features:

• Artist profile pages that display streaming MP3s, photos, videos, and text information – everything they would include in their press kit
• Digital Press Kits (DPK’s) that artists can send from their profile to radio programmers
• A music call system where programmers or promoters can receive submitted artist profiles for airplay or gig opportunities
• Real-time download tracking reports and global radio charts
• An integrated banner ad system that tracks ad revenue for AirPlay Direct
• Killer content management and administrator tools

The list of functionality in this platform just goes on and on.

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

Kudos to Aleven Creatives and Bottlecap Development.

Delta Systems Group assisted with the technology roadmap, feature specification, alpha testing, and on-going blog updates.

After providing development services and support for several years, Delta Systems has passed the day-to-day development torch on to Bottlecap Development while remaining a minor shareholder in AirPlayDirect.com

Learn more about how Delta can help brilliantly execute your brilliant idea at http://www.JustCallDelta.com

Delta Systems is proud to help announce the launch of http://www.iAskEmma.com

Several months in the making, this financial assistance website is poised to explode onto the scene with some innovative ideas in personal financial planning.

About iAskEmma.com

Emma helps you set a budget, create a long-term financial plan, get organized, track your cash flow and progress toward meeting your financial goals utilizing her personal finance website.

Emma’s educational resources include easy-to-understand financial video tutorials and an interactive on-line financial support community. Emma’s unbiased tutorials cover all the information you want and need. The iaskemma.com online financial community is safe, comfortable, and here to help you achieve your goals.

In addition to the educational, planning, monitoring, and budgeting sections, you will benefit from Emma’s bill pay reminders, calendar, and important financial to do lists.

Delta Systems is pleased to announce the delivery of v1.8 of the patent-pending title insurance policy tracking system hosted at http://www.FarmersTitle.com

A plethora of improvements and new features were added to the system including preliminary Google Maps integration (more coming later), an online newsletter, and more.

UPDATE: Farmers National Title Insurance became Agents National Title Insurance on January 1, 2009. Their new website is at http://www.agentstitle.com

AirPlay Direct today announced a strategic partnership with the Hollywood Music Awards.

“They are a like-minded organization that support quality music regardless of the origin: independent or major label.” – Robet Weingartz, AirPlay Direct CEO.

The main event will take place on November 20th, 2008 at the Hollywood Highlands in the world-famous Kodak Theatre Complex (Hollywood, California) featuring live music performances, award presentations, celebrities, a VIP reception and dinner banquet catered by Wolfgang Puck, Inc. The Hollywood Music Awards (HMA) is the first red carpet event of its kind that celebrates music of mainstream and independent artists in popular and new visual mediums. 

Delta Systems is part owner in AirPlayDirect.com and Delta’s President, Steve Powell also serves as the CTO of AirPlay Direct.