StarPound is Hiring
StarPound is on the move. We have some big announcements that will hit the wire soon, including one that is going to send tremors through an entire industry. Wish I could say more about it right now … 
At any rate, the good news is that we’re hiring. Job descriptions below – if you know someone that might be a good fit, I’d certainly appreciate any referrals.
Immediate opportunities (details for each are down below):
- Enterprise Project Manager
- Network Administrator
- System Administrator
- Business Analyst
- Java/J2EE Developer
StarPound provides an on-demand, open-source platform for enabling large enterprise customers to design, deliver and adapt communication-enabled business processes. Additionally, we provide an entire PBX and call center suite built on top of our core platform.
Successful candidates must be comfortable wearing a lot of hats in a fast-growth, emerging startup company (venture-backed). And, they must be passionate about your job, and willing to do whatever it takes to be successful. If you are interested, please visit our website (www.starpound.net) or contact Dottie Thornton via email with your resume (dthornton at starpoundtech.com).
Enterprise Project Manager
Requirements:
- Project reporting, monitoring, and milestone success on complex enterprise projects
- Experience within contact center, CRM, telecommunication services, or e-business industries is desirable
- Experience with web services, web integration is a plus
- Leadership and mentoring experience.
- Minimum 7 years relevant project management experience required.
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Project Management professional (PMP) Certification a plus
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent Project Management work experience
Network Administrator
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional experience in networking field
- One or more of the following industry recognized certifications (or equivalent experience)
- Cisco CCIE (R/S, SP, Security, Voice, Storage)
- Cisco CCNP, CCIP, CCDP, CCSP, CCVP
- Juniper JNCIE (M/T, ER)
- Juniper JNCIP-MT, JNCIS-M/T, JNCIS-ER, JNCIS-FWV
- Foundry FNCNE, FNCNP
- ISC2 CISSP
- Deep Expertise in at least one of the following areas:
- Data Center Network Architectures and Design
- OSPF, BGP, MPLS, QoS
- Highly Desirable Skills:
- Advanced understanding of IP/MPLS communications theory, design and functionality – Advanced understanding of VoIP technologies, such as H.323 & SIP
- Experience designing and implementing QoS standards and technologies across platforms to ensure strict service guarantees (SLAs) for Voice and Video.
- Strong working knowledge of network management and testing tools (at a minimum ethereal/wireshark)
System Administrator
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience required
- Linux, MySQL, load balancing routers
- Asterisk, shell scripts, cron
- Distributed architectures, Fault tolerant clustering
- SIP, telephony experience a plus
- Performance tuning
Business Analyst
Requirements:
- Experience within contact center, CRM, financial services, or e-business industries is desirable
- Minimum 3-5 years relevant experience required.
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Experience with CRM systems and processes is desirable.
- Experience with process modeling tools is desirable.
- Must have strong experience with J2EE Middleware
- At least a basic understanding of BPMN
Java/J2EE Developer
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience required
- JBoss, MySQL, JSF, Struts, Linux
- GWT, WSDL, XML, Eclipse plugin development
- Asterisk, VoIP, SIP, PBX, ACD, IVR, CTI
- VoiceXML, UML, BPMN, Model-driven development
Cheers.
Too many people place an emphasis these days on retained knowledge. This is especially prevalent within technical fields. Computer programmers are often asked to recite arcane utterings of alphabet soup during job interviews. This isn’t important. What is important, however, is simply knowing where to find the right answers.
Sadly, today’s post is going to be comprised of “YARS”, or Yet Another Recruiting Story. The one really good thing about being “in transition”, is that I am never at a loss for recruiting stories! Today we are going to explore how NOT to go about hiring a CIO, CTO, or other types of technology executives.
If you ran a convenience store, and needed to call someone in to unclog the drains in the bathrooms, would you call a good plumber, with a variety of experiences under his belt, or would you leave the drains clogged up until you could find a plumber that has deep vertical experience (no pun intended) working within the convenience store industry? Of course not! Sadly, this is the lame cloud under which many CIOs are hired. Call me crazy, but I’d just want a good plumber. Someone who was a problem solver.
Common wisdom dictates professional courtesy; or does it? It used to. At least I thought it did.
