We are seeking a ColdFusion developer to join our team of in-house developers. A long established, legal non-profit, in University City Philadelphia seeks talented individual with excellent programming skills, particularly ColdFusion web development. In addition to an open and casual atmosphere, the ability to change the way an organization run awaits the right candidate. A benefits package is available including health coverage, sick, personal, vacation, & 403B.

Job Description:

The position requires solid organizational, development, and communication skills. The successful candidate will be part of an in-house software development team expected to develop and deliver applications within set timeframes. In addition to coding in ColdFusion, a working knowledge of Flash and Java is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Develop applications and automated tasks primarily in ColdFusion and MS-SQL according to documented specifications
• Work closely with the marketing / business development team
• Write and review technical documentation

Qualifications and Experience:

• BA/BS Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• ColdFusion including experience with CFCs and custom tags, Fusebox a plus, but not required
• Microsoft SQL Server
• HTML, CSS required, AJAX (JQuery) beneficial
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work independently on projects while remaining part of the team.

Contact Director Web Technologies

Don't forget -- our next meeting will be next Thursday, May 29, at Penn. Details are here...we look forward to seeing you!

Wharton Computing is looking for ColdFusion developers to work on a contract basis this summer on a number of projects. Preferred architecture is ColdFusion and SQL server on Windows IIS. Work can be done remotely. If interested, please contact: Don Huesman, huesman@wharton.upenn.edu.

Meeting: May 29!

Building Live Chat with BlazeDS

The free and open source BlazeDS project from Adobe brings a powerful new paradigm to web development. In addition to the high performance AMF protocol, BlazeDS also provides the ability to push data to rich clients like the Flash Player. With very little code, we will build several different chat applications that can be added to any website.

The presenter will be Adam Lehman, ColdFusion Platform Evangelist for Adobe.

Time/Date/Location:
Thursday May 29, 5:30PM, Huntsman Hall @ Wharton, room G55

Now Under New Management!

It is my privilege to announce that Chris Scott, a dedicated user group member (and speaker) will be the new manager of the Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group, effective May 29.

The Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group has been in existence for about ten years and in that time has had only two managers. Chris Swanson lead the original effort until handing over the reins to me in late 2000. At the time I had only been doing ColdFusion for a year, but had the folks at the Baltimore and DC CFUGs to thank for most of my knowledge. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to organize a group of like-minded developers.

The last eight years have been amazing times for the CF community: the Macromedia acquisition, the Adobe acquisition, six releases of CF (6, 6.1, 7, 7.0.2, 8, and 8.0.1), CFCs redefined the language and rich internet applications are the new hotness. Those who have stuck with CF have witnessed the amazing evolution of the application server and the community around it. A tremendous number of learning opportunities have emerged as a result, opportunities that have been great for developers who have taken the time to take advantage of them.

I hope you've found value in your relationship with the user group. I certainly have enjoyed getting to know many of you and learned a lot in the process. My favorite activity was the series of certification study group meetings held at the Great American Pub. Everybody in that group passed on their first attempt; I can't definitively say whether it was the Bubba Burgers or the discussion that helped more!

It's now time for a new person with time, energy and fresh ideas to step in and re-invigorate and re-energize the group. Chris is the right guy to do it. Please join me in welcoming Chris to the role of Manager of the CFUG - he's going to do an amazing job.

Job Description
The Web Application Developer position supports the development/maintenance of new and existing Web Applications. Candidate should possess skills necessary to provide full life-cycle development of dynamic web-based applications. The candidate will be responsible for prototyping, development, and quality assurance testing of all applications. This role requires working directly with other development teams, both internal and external to Verizon TeleProducts.

Required Skills

• Obtaining and documenting application requirements.
• Client and server side web development techniques.
• Familiar with OOP theory and practice.
• Cold Fusion (MX) or J2EE (JSP).
• MS.net (ASP.net).
• MS T-SQL.
• Stored procedure development.
• Relational database theory.
• Database Design and optimization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and use new and different technologies.

Desired Skills

• Flash Rich Internet Application Development.
• Actionscript and/or Javascript.
• Macromedia Studio MX 2004.
• Model-Glue/Mach-ii CF Frameworks.
• Photoshop 7.
• Microsoft Office and MS Visio.
• Crystal Reports.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field), Webmaster Certificate, CF Certification, MCSD, MCAD, Sun JAVA Certification, and/or a minimum of 1 - 5 years experience in Cold Fusion / MS.Net / MSSQL / J2EE enterprise application development.

Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Verizon TeleProducts in West Chester, PA

Questions? Contact jobs.vtp@verizon.com