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

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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.

Delta Systems Group Does Web Application Development and a Whole Lot More

Delta Systems is proud to announce the online availability of their new website at http://deltasys.com.

This new site was completely redesigned to not only showcase featured client projects, but also showcase advanced layout and JavaScript talents we have in-house.

New Website Features Include:

1. Completely powered by WordPress
2. Custom WordPress plugin to more easily handle content in the Featured Client Carousel
3. Custom WordPress plugin to handle client testimonials and quotes
4. An Online Portfolio showcasing some of the hundreds of websites and online systems we’ve built
5. An awesome new design using that trendy “wrapped ribbon” look you see everywhere
6. Completely integrated Google Map with custom pushpin and display bubble
7. Crazy Loco SEO features
8. Job Openings listing is fed directly from WordPress blog posts

WordPress Experts

We are WordPress Experts

As an early adopter, Delta Systems has the most experience building and hosting WordPress powered websites of anyone in the area. And just in case there isn’t already a plugin built to make WordPress do exactly what you need, we are experts in building WordPress plugins as well. Ask around and you’ll find out why we’re the best. We have an extensive list of references.

Need Something Done on the Web? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of in-house 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

Screenshot of sabew.org featuring an image carousel and rss feeds from other blog sites

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers has partnered with Delta Systems for over 10 years. In the early days, Debin Benish trained Carrie Paden and her staff on the use of Microsoft Access.  Seeing that their time would be better spent on serving their thousands of members, SABEW turned to Delta Systems to build a membership management system, a conference management system, and a system to handle the hundreds of entries they receive to their annual “Best in Business” (BiB) contest.  The latest iteration of these systems is now online at SABEW.org. Members can now renew their membership directly online, view member-only content, as well as submit entries to the BiB contest as well as handle the judging all online.

Based on WordPress, Custom Built Plug-ins

Delta Systems used a unique blend of off-the-shelf and custom designed systems. WordPress was used to handle the front end content displaying. A custom WordPress plug-in was built to handle the image carousel on the homepage.  Another custom WordPress plugin was built to handle the contact form.  The site also directly integrates RSS feeds from Talking Biz News and several other business journalism related blogs.

New Website Features Include:

1. Completely powered by WordPress
2. Membership management system
3. Conference management system
4. Online Contest Submission system
5. Contest Judging system
6. Custom WordPress plugin to more easily handle content in the image carousel on the homepage
7. Completely integrated Google Analytics
8. Great Search Engine Optimization features

WordPress Experts

We are WordPress Experts

As an early adopter, Delta Systems has the most experience building and hosting WordPress powered websites of anyone in the area. And just in case there isn’t already a plugin built to make WordPress do exactly what you need, we are experts in building WordPress plugins as well. Ask around and you’ll find out why we’re the best. We have an extensive list of references.

Need something done? Just Call Delta

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of in-house 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

Equinosis makes the Lameness Locator

When Delta Systems was approached by Dr. Kevin Keegan, Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine, he had 18 years of research, an algorithm, and a partner in Japan working on wireless sensors – all of which were being used to detect lameness in horses.

Dr. Keegan had a problem and a solution. But the solution ran too slowly and was too cumbersome for an average person to perform. Equinosis was starting to take shape, but some technical help was needed to make it into a viable product.

The Technical Problem and Solution

The challenges included

• boosting a slow analysis cycle
• organizing and displaying data for multiple horses and runs
• reporting this highly detailed data in a clear and accurate manner

4 minutes reduced to 0.4 seconds = Real-Time Results

The algorithm is wicked complicated and when it showed up on our doorstep was taking almost 4 minutes to analyze the data from a single run of a horse. Additionally, the data collected by the sensors had to be perfect – no odd spikes or lulls. Delta went to work on speeding up the analysis and quickly improved the results. Now the time it took the system to digest the same amount of information had dropped from 4 minutes to 0.4 seconds. Real-time reporting and analysis was now possible! Data could now be sent via bluetooth from sensors on the running horse to a nearby tablet computer doing capture and analysis right in the field. This data needed to be analyzed in the field while the horse was still there so the doctor could do blocking and other stuff that vets do.

EXE on a Tablet Computer, Saves Data, Runs Reports

Delta Systems then worked to create a program to run on tablet computers to collect data wirelessly via bluetooth from the sensors and then manage the data from multiple runs of multiple horses in an intuitive user interface. Ultimately, a report is produced that shows all kinds of useful information that we’d love to share but is proprietary.

Why is Lameness Detection Important?

If you compare cars to horses, both are expensive, develop problems that need repair, are sold new and used at auctions, and both can now be objectively certified;  Cars have CarFax and horses have The Lameness Locator.  Prior to this solution, a veterinarian had to rely on subjective visual assessment as the only method available for performing lameness diagnosis. Even if the vet could “see” which limb was having issues, there was no quantitative way to measure the degree of the issue or to detect if multiple limbs were affected.

About Lameness Locator

The Lameness Locator - It's like CarFax for Horses

The Lameness Locator by Equinosis objectively detects and quantifies body movement asymmetry in a horse using small, body-mounted inertial sensors and a hand-held tablet PC. Instrumentation of the horse is quick, easy, and completely non-invasive. Data collection is in real time and veterinarians are free to perform their usual lameness evaluation routine without distraction.

Data is analyzed rapidly using a unique set of algorithms developed after 18 years of research on sound and lame horse movement. This unique set of data analysis algorithms helps to determine the affected limb or limbs, the severity of lameness within each limb and the timing of peak lameness pain within the stride cycle of each limb.

Results are then presented to the veterinarian in an intuitive graphical interface that is easy to interpret and report to clients.

Check Out the System we Built

It’s featured in this Lameness Evaluation Using The Lameness Locator video

Legal Notes: “CarFax” is a copyright of the CarFax people and is not an endorsement of any product. “It’s like CarFax for horses” is our analogy to be used in helping to communicate to lay people what the product does and not an official slogan for the product.

Delta Systems has built a website to showcase a luxury beach rental home on Captiva Island, Florida.

Visit www.AlmostHeavenCaptiva.com

Almost Heaven Captiva

Enjoy the animated crab that shows you snapshots of the house and the unique treasure map feel of the site.

When a user visits the page, we pull live weather information from Yahoo’s weather RSS feed, and then we parse out the information we want to display.

Once the information is parsed, we compare to a database of images and weather types and then show an appropriate icon for the weather type. We use tango icons, because they have transparent backgrounds and are a higher resolution than the Yahoo images in the feed. This provides a better look and a more site-specific integrated feel to the weather portion of the page.

When Yahoo throws us a wrench, and we don’t have an icon for the weather type, the system immediately sends us an email and are able to go in and associate the appropriate icon for the weather type. We have some defaults in place, but sometimes you just don’t know; for instance, they added ‘Strong Thunderstorms’ and then ‘Wind/Rain’.

We’re waiting for ‘hurricane’ to be added as well.

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

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.

The Welcome Home Greeting Program is a way for businesses to specifically target people who have recently moved into a new home. This company has a bright future as it grows a national sales force.

See more at directwelcomehome.com (hosted by Delta Systems)

Delta Systems is also building the online advertising sales and commission tracking system to allow sales representatives from around the country to quickly and easily submit graphics and information about ads they have sold to businesses in their area. These ads will end up in a printed mailer and online.

Site design was done by MayeCreate Design

We’re pleased to announce that four more websites are now being hosted by Delta Systems.

• ColumbiaMOChamber.com
  The Columbia Chamber of Commerce website is now hosted by Delta Systems. This site’s availability instantly rocketed from 80% to 100%. Soon we’ll be improving some usability, printing, and design/layout issues as well.
• SABEW.org
  The Society of American Business Editors and Writers website (SABEW) is now also on our servers. This site will now enjoy greater editing and content management capabilities.
• IYNAUS.org
  The Iyengar Yoga National Association website was built and is hosted by Delta Systems. IYNAUS is now able to do online membership management and invoicing as well as provide online product sales through a custom built eCommerce solution.
• DirectWelcomeHome.com
  The Welcome Home Greeting Program is a way for businesses to specifically target people who have recently moved into a new home. This company has a bright future as it grows a national sales force. Look for a future Delta blog post for more information.

Also, one of our hosting resellers added two more sites to our hosting servers.

About Delta Systems Hosting

Typically website hosting packages include 300MB of drive space, unlimited email accounts, unlimited databases, your choice of a Windows or Linux server, Plesk Control Panel access, site backup on a separate network in another State, and more. Prices start at $25/month.

Its only been a few weeks since AirPlay rocketed past 11,000 members and now here we are at 12,000 artist and record label accounts.

What makes AirPlay Direct different from myspace, iTunes, and all the other websites you can purchase or stream music from?

AirPlay Direct’s target audience is radio stations, not the general public.

AirPlay encourages artists to reach the general public by posting music and band information on myspace, iTunes, and related sites. Artists can link to such websites from their Free AirPlayDirect.com artist page and vice versa. AirPlay Direct is geared towards the thousands of radio stations listening to and downloading broadcast quality music. We’re not targeting the millions of general public audio listeners.

AirPlay works to connect independent artists with radio stations and broadcasters around the world.

Read more about Airplay Direct on blog at http://www.airplaydirect.com/blog

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Delta Systems is part owner in AirPlayDirect.com