Tuesday, March 30, 2010

DB2 DBA opening in Kansas City

Job Overview:

-Independently writes job scripts using operating system commands to execute sequential procedures.
-Creates database objects such as tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, sequences, constraints, and rules.
-Provides first level problem resolution support to customers, including SQL tuning and solving performance and/or connectivity problems. Provides guidance and training to less experienced staff.
-Troubleshoots problems and applies fixes, including fixing corrupt indexes, restoring corrupt databases from backup, and assisting programmers with repairing corrupted data.
-Independently creates, manages, and implements project plans of low to medium complexity.
-Performs simple Database Management System design using data modeling tools.
Tunes databases, software and operating system environment.
-Works with senior level staff to maintain the data dictionary.
-Independently develops and tracks own performance with respect to key objectives, behaviors, and leadership competencies for the job.
-Performs other duties as assigned.


Requirements needed:

·Bachelor’s degree preferred.

·Two four years of experience as a Database Administrator (DBA).

·Four to six years of experience supporting IBM DB2 database systems.

·One to two years of experience with database support on an IBM z/OS platform.

·Four years experience in database design, referential integrity, and modeling.

·Able to lead and manage project-related assignments of short to long duration with a medium to high level of complexity.

·DBMS certification (IBM DB2 Certified).

·Working knowledge of installing and maintaining DBMS.

·Knowledge and working experience with DBMS security, and OS and hardware setup, configuration, and security.

·Excellent working knowledge of Database Management System (DBMS) tools and IBM DB2 database support, including modeling tools, methodologies and normalization.

-Knowledge of operating system security and network technologies is preferred.
-Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
-Must possess good project management skills.

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Oracle Forms and Reports Developer in Kansas City

This person will have 2-3 years of Oracle Forms 10g and Oracle Reports 10g experience. They will have strong experience in PL/SQL, Oracle DB 9i, 10g from a development level. The ideal person will have Oracle Application Server or Weblogic, JAVA, Pro C. This person will be afforded the opportunity to join a dynamic team and grow with new clients and designs.

EOE/M/F/H/V

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant
Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 22, 2010

Help Desk Engineer Tier II

This person will have 2-3 years of troubleshooting and supporting end users with Citrix, Windows, Active Directory and MS office in a large environment. If the person has some systems administration experience is a plus.

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant
Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Friday, March 19, 2010

Network Administrator opening in Kansas City

Need a individual with 4-5 years of enterprise network administration with a emphasis in Windows, VMWare and MS Exchange experience. This person will have been responsibile for multiple servers in a production environment. They will have a opportunity to learn new technologies and take part in a growing comany.

Citrix is a plus
Sharepoint is a plus
Juniper VPN is a plus
Wireless is a plus

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Mid Level C# Development - Permanent Opportunity in Kansas City

Looking for a 2-4 years in .NET development, they will provide design and development expertise in developing C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server web services applications. This person will have had experience in the development of enterprise level web portals. This is a opportunity to work with a dyanmic team and grow with a mid sized company.

SSRS is a plus
WPF is a plus
Agile is a plus

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Senior JAVA Developer opening in Kansas City

Looking for a 5-8 year developer to provide full like cycle development building web services in JAVA, Spring and Oracle. This person must be strong in all 3 skills. The individual will be building web services for sales, risk and marketing, they will be involved in new design and development throughout there tenure. This person will have strong communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels of management.

EJB is a plus
Hibernate and JSF a plus
RichFaces or ICEFaces is a plus
RAD/Interativev is a plus

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

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Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Network Engineer / Analyst / Topeka, KS

The Network Analyst is responsible for the day to day support of the network infrastructure to provide stable and dependable connectivity. This role will collaborate with associates, business partners, vendors, and IT staff to resolve hardware and software issues and escalate issues as appropriate. This role allows the opportunity to participate in unique projects with deliverables in addition to the regular responsibilities of supporting the network infrastructure. The Network analyst will need to possess a good understanding of the following:

1. Support, monitor, test and troubleshoot hardware and software pertaining to network equipment.

2. Utilize network management tools to identify network faults. The ability to analyze a packet trace. (Net scout nGenius Performance Manager, Net scout Infinistream, Stat seeker)

3. Provides second/third level support to end users by efficiently working helpdesk tickets as they are routed to the Network and Telecommunications department.

4. LAN/WAN management experience. Cisco experience a plus. (This reads CCNA) Good understanding of dynamic routing protocols used in a network environment. (OSPF, BGP)

5. 802.11x wireless experience including implementation, configuration, and ongoing support. (Aruba)

6. WAN Optimization experience using appliances specialized in this function. (Riverbed Steelhead)

7. DNS/DHCP configuration, management, and support. Understanding and experience in supporting a DNS/DHCP environment. (Infoblox)

8. Application Load Balancing configuration, implementation, and support. (F5 LTM).

9. Understanding of Firewall Policy Management. (Access, NAT) (Juniper)

10. Juniper VPN configuration, implementation, and support. Juniper NSM experience if possible.


Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

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Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Friday, March 5, 2010

RF Engineer opening in St. Louis, Missouri

Work with RF design engineer to understand the RF design, cluster definition, customer expectation, and network configuration.

• Study RF design coverage maps and identify problem areas in terms of coverage, interference, or pilot pollution.
• Plan and execute tasks to optimize RF clusters in the customer network during the deployment phase.
• Determine test equipment needed and work with RF Manager to order it from RF Toolkit group.
• Confirm spectrum clearance, integration testing, power calibration, and call-through tests were carried out, and all entrance criteria are met before start of optimization.
• Troubleshoot problem areas and provide recommendations for system performance enhancements.
• Participate in providing input to the RF sections in the MOP, deployment plan, CATP, and site logistical needs.
• Generate script files necessary for RF optimization.
• Perform sanity check on antenna configuration.
• Make sure that the Methods and Procedures handbook on optimization is followed correctly and optimization procedures implemented are consistent with recommendations.
• Keep up-to-date documentation of optimization-related actions; also maintain archives of all collected data.
• Ensure all optimization work meets agreed-upon Key Performance Indicator criteria by launch date scheduled with the customer.
• Troubleshoot areas with poor RF performance. Request drive tests, analyze data, and recommend network changes as applicable.
• Support RNC Rehome design for cluster migrations and coordination with internal team and customer during troubleshooting of migration/rehome-related issues.
• Support KPI monitoring before and after RNC rehome/migration, identify issues, analyze and troubleshoot and escalate, as needed, for resolution.

Familiarity with RF Optimization Handbook procedures, Familiarity with RF Optimization tools and test equipment, Familiarity with RF Optimization tunable parameters, Knowledge of antenna configuration, Knowledge of system architecture, Knowledge of UNIX shell scripts, Understanding of the Access Technologies (AMPS/TDMA/CDMA) air interface, Basic Call flow, mobile operations, Ability of using Network Performance tools.

5+ years experience as UMTS RF Optimization Market Lead or equivalent.Market:
Candidate must reside or be able to move to St. Louis, MO.RF

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

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Midwest Consulting Group
913-893-8200 #246
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

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PeopleSoft Security Administrator in Topeka, Kansas

The PeopleSoft Security Administrator is responsible for gathering requirements, designing, building, testing, and maintaining the security environment to support PeopleSoft applications. The security administrator will develop and implement PeopleSoft application information systems security plans and procedures, perform security reviews and access audits, recommend security solutions, advise on application-level security configurations, provide security education for end users, and investigate and mitigate security risks as required. The PeopleSoft Security Administrator is responsible for all aspects of managing and monitoring access to PeopleSoft resources, including pages, processes, queries, trees, reports, components, services, integrations, customizations, and tools. The position is to work closely with other teams to improve efficiencies in the security request and fulfillment process. The PeopleSoft Security Administrator maintains security in all environments in support of development, testing, and production.



4+ years practical experience administering PeopleSoft security required.
Experience with PeopleSoft 8.8 or 8.9 and PeopleTools 8.4x
PeopleTools 1 & 2 preferred

General experience with security audit, compliance, prevention and procedures preferred with knowledge of how security relates to the following technologies:

- Windows, Linux/UNIX server platforms
- Windows, Mac and mobile client platforms
- Identity, Security and Access Management concerns (LDAP Directories, Web SSO, SAML etc.)
- Enterprise resource planning systems (PeopleSoft preferred)
- Relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL etc.)
- Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, and other modern software design patterns
- Software as a Service (SaaS) / Cloud Computing
- Internet protocols, open standards, and surrounding network technologies
- Disaster recovery, business continuity planning


Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

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Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
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Flash - 3D Animator opening

Flash Designer / Motion Graphics Designer

Job Duties: Action Script 2.0 or higher, animate and creating web page knowledge camera moves, designee, basic key/compositing, good since of design layout and composition

Software Utilized: Flash, Aftereffects, Photoshop, Illustrator 3Dsmax knowledge and Dreamweaver its a plus.

Genera(s): 3D Animation, 2D Animation, Flash Commercial, Promo, Motion graphics, television, VFX, Web.

Contact Information:

Ryan Mac Donald
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Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Senior JAVA Developer opening in Kansas City

Looking for 4-5 years of solid JAVA Development in Web Services. This person will have developed enterprise level web portals and be strong in all three layers, will be part of a team developing web services and portals around the United States. They will have a strong foundation in JAVA, J2EE and be well rounded in Web Services development. Our client is dynamic company providing services to large organizations with new designs and constant challenges for their employees.

Contact Informtion:

Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

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Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

Senior Business Analyst Opening in Kansas City

Looking for a person with 4-6 years of experience as a Business Analyst to conduct JAD Sessions, gather requirements, meet with end users, work with vendors and assist the transistion to a JAD Session environment. This person will have facilitated JAD Sessions and have a strong understanding of their use and structure.

Contact Information:


Ryan Mac Donald
Senior Staffing Consultant

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Midwest Consulting Group
9401 Indian Creek Parkway - Suite 1120
Overland Park, KS 66210
913-693-8200-Office
913-522-0179-Cell
http://www.mcginfo.com
ryanm@mcginfo.com

Partial list of MCG Employment openings link:
http://midwestconsultingryanmacdonald.blogspot.com/

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