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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

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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.

On St. Patrick’s day, the Columbia Chamber of Commerce held its annual, premier springtime event: the 2009 Business Conference and Showcase.

Steve Powell, President of Delta Systems, Co-Chaired the committee with Brian Myers of First National Bank who were both honored with helping to cut the ribbon at the kickoff/ribbon-cutting that immediately followed the Chamber’s Quarterly Member Breakfast.

The (sold out!) Showcase is a menagerie of 131 booths staffed by local businesses showcasing their products and services.  The Conference consisted of seminars and a keynote luncheon that was highlighted by the announcement of the 2009 Small Business of the Year Award Finalists and a great talk by Paul Vitale.

Job Point announced their 2008-2009 Board of Directors this week. Delta Systems Group owner Steve Powell has been named Chairman. Powell was quoted as saying,

“It is an honor and a privilege to help an organization that helps so many others in getting the support and training needed to re-enter the workforce.”

Powell will help lead Job Point through a year that brings the continued challenge of expanding and shoring up program funding sources and the opportunity of moving the corporate headquarters.

The full listing of appointments can be found on the Columbia Daily Tribune’s website at  http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Jul/20080719Busi009.asp and is listed below in case they ever kill the link.

Job Point has announced its 2008-2009 board of directors: Chairman Steve Powell, Delta Systems Group; Vice Chairman Jim Robertson, the Tribune; Treasurer Steve Tanzey, First National Bank & Trust Co.; Secretary Patricia “Pat” McDonald, Shelter Life Insurance Co.; Past Chairman Gary Thompson, Columbia Insurance Group; and Member At-Large Linda Tomlinson, KOMU-TV8 & Mid Missouri’s CW. New members include Mary Duffield, University of Missouri secretarial office support; Steve Erdel, Boone County National Bank; Mike Kelly, The Insurance Group; Kate Pitzer,Van Matre & Volkert PC; Rosemary Travis, State Farm Insurance Cos.; and David Townsend, Farmers Title Insurance Co. A dinner is scheduled for Thursday at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center to acknowledge the contributions of outgoing board members Mark Duncan, State Farm Insurance Cos.; and Mary Carnahan, Brown Willbrand Simon Powell and Lewis, Attorneys.

Delta Systems helps a myriad of charitable organizations throughout Columbia mostly in a computer-related fashion. We’re proud and excited to have the opportunity to expand our helpful ways into volunteer leadership roles.

We have instantiated “Virtual Tuesdays” here at Delta Systems. No, we do not agree that going completely virtual is the wave of the future.  However, we do agree that gas prices are too high and that working from home (or out and about) affords some focused time to crank out some work or provide some fresh perspective.

One of our developers happened to be in Lakota this morning and sent in this report. . .

So, I went into Lakota as I normally do on Tuesday mornings and fired up my laptop to find that their Internet was offline. Then, I overhear the owner on the phone with CenturyTel exclaiming: “2 days! This is killing us! No one will stay here without Internet!”

Not wanting to abandon my favorite coffee shop, I suggested that we ask Leigh from Main Squeeze if he could piggy-back on her wireless signal for a few days. About 45 minutes and 2 DD-WRT routers later, they’re back online and I have free coffee. Sweet.

Sweet indeed.

Charles Hudson joined Delta Systems today. Charles brings database and web layout experience to the team. He is experienced in website development that supports a database on the back side. In particular, he has built onine inventory systems and real estate websites amongst other things.  As for languages and platforms, he has used Eclipse for Java and Visual Studio for VB.NET. He will be using Windows XP and primarily working in Dreamweaver with a VMWare based testing LAMP server.

We know that’s a lot of buzzwords and technical stuff that you don’t care about. The bottom line is that he is good and is a welcome new asset on the Delta Systems team.

My wife and I went to the HuHot Mongolian Grill in Columbia, MO last night.

Less than 24 hours after MU defeated KU 36 to 28, the first item on the buffet was quietly offering up Jayhawk. It was delicious!

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The picture isn’t great, but its the best my Treo 700p can do.

Governor Sebelius chose poorly, but will look good in black and gold (insert lame elected official bet here).

Anybody else sick of seeing Ohio State in the BCS National Championship?

Now on to crushing OU! Go Tigers!

MU vs KU 2007 Border Showdown Highlight Reel

Yes, we know this story has nothing to do with Delta Systems. But Mizzou hasn’t been ranked number 1 since 1960.

Great Picture of the Final KU Offensive Play at Arrowhead

Showcasing his amazing talent with website design and unbelievable skills with CSS, Delta Systems Senior Web Designer Blake Walters recently created a whole new look and layout for his personal website at blake-walters.com.

This attracted the attention of a plethora of sites that showcase the best and most inspired usage of CSS on the Internet.

Blake’s work was noted at:

• Design Shack
• CSSclip
• CSS Mania
• most Inspired

Thanks to Google Analytics, Blake tells us that he’s getting about 8,700 unique visitors a day.

About Delta Systems

If your company needs some kick butt design work, an entire web based system, or you just want to add Google Analytics to your website give Delta Systems a call.

Steve Powell, owner of Delta Systems, earned his sixth straight Show Me State Games Gold Medal (http://www.smsg.org/results/index.asp?Area=GM). In fact, everyone in his group received gold medals including his wife, Kristi, as well as his in-laws Sandy and Ron Miller!

Job Point has announced the officers for its 2007-2008 board of directors. Serving as chairman is Gary Thompson, Columbia Insurance Group; vice-chairman, Steve Powell, Delta Systems Group; treasurer, Steve Tanzey, First National Bank & Trust Company; secretary, Jim Robertson, Columbia Daily Tribune.

More at http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Jul/20070728Busi002.asp