GDViz: Recruiting Open House

Viz is having a recruiting open house:
Viz Open House 3.....this time it's personnel!
Thursday March 1
5:00-7:30 PM at Viz

For more information regarding the open house including location in SouthSide Works:
http://www.gdviz.com/web/openhouse/

Questions regarding open house:
marymichael.tribone{at}gdc4s.com

For complete official company information about positions and to apply:
http://www.gdc4s.com/careers/

There are contract positions open and there are interships available in addition to the 10 current postings. Also as new positions open we will post them.

The formal titles and informal description for those 10 positions:

Information Designer - S07-5826-01

Information Designer - S07-5826-02

Information Designer - Visual Interaction - S07-5827

Lead Information Designer - S05-4390

Senior Information Designer - S05-4389

This description applies to all 5 Information Design Positions:

join our kid-tested, mother-approved information design team.
expectations of applicants include but are not limited to:
(sketch like leonardo, animate like walt,) visualize like minard, engage and delight users like spool, and solve the big problems like your life depended on it.
think it sounds challenging? you have no idea.

OR

This person should live and breath the user and software interaction, yet be completely invisible.

Manager, Information Design - S07-5950

See the above Information Design Description. PLUS: Someone with supreme cat coersion and herding skills. Vocabulary for feline manuvering to include "Don't do that (when you want it done)."

Software Developer - S06-5795 (Java)

A developer who can visualize, design and implement an improved photosynthesis process in one leaf and not lose sight of the entire forest.

Software Engineer (Quality Automation) - S05-4053

Open the hood and make the software do all the tricks the it knows how to do and everything else you can think of. Creativity is a MUST.

Software Engineer II (Quality) - S07-5854

We need functional testers and performance testers. See the descriptions of each.

Functional Tester:

Think of new ways using a mouse, a keyboard, some data and the software to convince your computer and other computers to make faces, go peek-a-boo, heh presto and poof possibly at the speed of light.

Performance Tester:

Necessary:

Ability to notice that which is around them

Willing/able to pick up new skills

Extreme Creativity

Pick a couple:

Perl

Windows Batch Scripting

Unix shell scripting

Light system administration

Hardware knowledge (RAID, NUMA v. SMP, Bottleneck Analysis, etc)

OS configuration

Deep Java understanding (GC, threading)

Reasonable Java programming

Networking

Technical Support Developer - S06-5621

A support engineer should be:

1. Tenacious - willing to track down details about an issue by contacting users, pouring over logs, reviewing source code and direct experimentation with the software.
2. All knowing - posses a wide knowledge of computers, networks and programming in order to more accurately diagnose reported issues that may or may not be in our software but cause users pain.
3. Flexible - able to drop everything to focus on a new emergency.
4. Easy going - able to calm down a stressful situation (remember, our customers have big guns and missiles)

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