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NEW: See our supplemental listing of 15 cos. at the bottom; a helpful guide for job seekers ...
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NEWS FLASH!!
The November issue of Geospatial Solutions features an article by Tina Cary about how
"you are the marketing director of your career." This article is essential reading for every
geospatial professional and student, and is now available online:
http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=211131

For more information, contact:
Tina Cary, PhD
President, Cary and Associates
Marketing consulting in the geotechnologies
tcary@caryandassociates.com

* Listing#1:

GIS TECHNICIAN II
RIVERSIDE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
FORT COLLINS, CO

Closing Date: February 17th, 2006 at 12:00 noon

Description:
Riverside Technology, inc. is a water resources engineering firm providing quality services in water resources engineering, data acquisition and analysis, software development, and information services. We are accepting applications for an experienced GIS technician. Job duties will include a variety of tasks including but not limited to: cartography, digitizing and Geodatabase editing, data entry, data QAQC, linear referencing, geoprocessing, and image interpretation.

Desired skills and qualifications:
The successful candidate will have a sound understanding of GIS concepts and software, particularly ArcGIS. Candidates should also have proven experience digitizing and editing in ArcMap using the Geodatabase. Preference will be given to candidates with aerial photo interpretation skills and knowledge of agricultural practices. Experience with ArcGIS model builder will be a plus. This position requires demonstrated computer skills in Windows environments, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.

Compensation:
Competitive salary with benefits.
Please send resumes to:
Riverside Technology, inc.
2290 East Prospect Road, Suite 1
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Attn: Human Resources/GIS Tech
or
email to jobs@riverside.com
Include GIS Tech in subject line
(Posted Feb. 10)

* Listing #2:

GIS TECHNICIAN II
DENVER REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (DRCOG)
DENVER, CO

Application deadline: Feb. 24

Looking for someone with SDE experience.

Details on the position and the application process available on our website:

http://www.drcog.org/jobopenings/jobopenings.cfm


Alternatively, give me a call if you have questions.

Contact:
Simon Montagu
303.480.6763
(Posted Feb. 13)

* Listing #3:

GIS ADDRESSING COORDINATOR
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
TELLURIDE, CO

San Miguel County
Job Announcement
Job Title: Addressing Coordinator
Application deadline: Feb. 24

Summary Description: Full time, two year (minimum) position available for development, management and implementation of physical address system.
Self-motivated, detail oriented individual with excellent communication skills desired, must be computer savvy and capable of field work. GIS/GPS experience, local knowledge and emergency response experience sought.

Starting monthly salary: $2741-3026 DOQ, plus benefits.

To apply: Application deadline 2/24/06.
Submit resume & cover letter to GIS Dept, PO Box 1170, Telluride, CO 81435.
Via email to addressing@sanmiguelcounty.org.
(Please use your last name as the file name.)

***San Miguel County is an Equal Opportunity Employer***

For full job description, qualifications and other information, see:
http://www.sanmiguelcounty.org/addressing.htm

Local contact:
Heather Widlund
GIS Coordinator
San Miguel County
PO Box 1170
Telluride, CO 81435
970.369.5470
heatherw@sanmiguelcounty.org

(Posted Feb. 6)

* Listing #4:

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
SUPERIOR, CO

Sr. Software Engineer - C#, .NET Developer
Today's enterprise packaged applications (i.e., Oracle, PeopleSoft & SAP) environments are challenged by an escalating rate of change, increasing complexity, rising demands and expectations by customers and user communities, and ever-shrinking budgets. Newmerix Corp. is a vibrant company delivering new customer-focused, packaged application specific solutions that fill a glaring deficiency in the life cycle management of enterprise packaged applications. Newmerix's Automate!™ Suite of software provides program management, automated testing, and change management capabilities that eclipse the peripheral competitive products to manage all aspects of change and quality associated with packaged application implementations and upgrades.

For more information, please visit our website at www.newmerix.com.

SUMMARY OF POSITION:
Reporting to the Engineering Director, in this role you will be challenged and given the opportunity to grow your talents, to learn and contribute by providing world-class design and implementation services in the production of our flagship products.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
" Provide feature-level design, implementation, delivery and maintenance/enhancements of the company's products.
" Translate features and requirements into Engineering design documentation.
" Perform testing at the unit level.
" Prepare labor estimates for the development and delivery of assigned features.
" Be accountable for the implementation (including unit testing), functional completeness and delivery to performance, supportability, scalability, and testability goals.
" Meet delivery commitments.
" Work directly with the core engineering team from feature definition to delivery.
" Must be able to create simple solutions to complex design problems.

QUALIFICATIONS:
" Bachelor's degree in a related field of study, or a combination of education and equivalent work experience, with experience designing, developing, and implementing server or desk-top applications using object oriented programming.
" Must posses experience testing at the unit level.
" Experience using Microsoft.NET technologies.
" Technical skills to include a combination of:

- Object oriented programming languages (C#, C++, Java), .NET, XML, HTML, and/or
JavaScript.
- Relational database familiarity (MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MYSQL, DB2
preferred.

" Experience developing software applications using n-tier architecture with back-end databases is a plus.
" XML Web Services, SOA, COM, .Net Remoting, multithreaded application development, and Java skills are also a plus.
" Must be able to adhere to a concise development software development methodology, spanning the full development lifecycle and rollout.
" Applicants with experience in packaged applications (PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, SAP, JD Edwards) are preferred.
Interested candidates with the aforementioned experience email your resume in MS Word to: careers@newmerix.com. Please put the title "Sr. Software Engineer" in the subject line. Include your daytime phone number and compensation history and requirements.

(Posted Feb. 12)

* Listing #5:

APPLICATION SUPPORT ENGINEER
BOULDER, CO

Job Description:
Provide technical support to customers by solving technical issues and providing instruction and creative problem solving on product use. Communicate with customers and troubleshoot issues to determine the cause, and deliver solutions or workarounds. Assist customers in installing and testing new versions of software products. Assist in providing product demonstrations and technical training and document solutions for internal and external use of our knowledge base. With the highly technical nature of our products, excellent troubleshooting skills and an aptitude for understanding complex technical concepts are required.

Requirements
" Breadth of knowledge in applications supported by system/network/web /database administrators, such as: Weblogic, Websphere, MSSQL, Oracle, Siebel, Tomcat

" Experience administering and troubleshooting Windows desktop and server operating systems (NT, 2000, 2003)

" UNIX administration: Sun Solaris, HP/UX, Red Hat Linux

" Network troubleshooting experience

" Experience working in high availability environments

" Database administration experience a plus

" Perl/VB scripting experience a plus

" Previous experience with a Mercury Application Management solutions highly desired

Education:
BS in CS, CE, EE, or equivalent experience

Interested candidates with the aforementioned experience email your resume in MS Word to: careers@newmerix.com. Please put the title "Application Support Engineer" in the subject line. Include your daytime phone number and compensation history and requirements.

(Posted Feb. 12)

* Listing #6:

TECHNICAL SUPPORT REP
TRIMBLE
WESTMINSTER, CO

Requirements:
Proven track record in technical support. 3-5 years experience with high level support of software
and hardware products
Training curriculum delivery
Strong customer and team focus
Excellent relationship-building skills
Strong problem-solving skills
Must have good communication, time management and organizational skills.
Prefer advanced degree in GIS related field
Experience with GPS including Trimble Mapping & GIS Products desirable but not essential
Experience with ArcGIS Desktop Products (Map, Catalog & Toolbox)
Experience within high tech field preferably Mapping and GIS
Proficient knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access
Fluency in Spanish desirable
Being available to travel internationally, as required

Duties:
Direct interface with Trimble customers and distribution network. Providing support for all Trimble
mapping products. Become product expert and liaison to product marketing. Deliver training both in
person and via webcast. Provide back-up support to worldwide support group. Responsible for Latin
American market support cases. Ability to support sales group with large project offerings.

Additional Job Details. Employment term : Full Time
Degree : Bachelors
Travel : Light < 25%
Job level : Mid Level 2-6 yrs.
Job site : 7403 Church Ranch Blvd
Westminster, CO 80021

(Posted Feb. 4)

* Non-specific listing:

The following companies frequently have openings in the aerospace, GIS, GPS, software
programming, IT, engineering, remote sensing, and related geotechnologies.
Check their web sites, listed below, for current openings and position descriptions.

BALL AEROSPACE
BOULDER, COLORADO
Visit the web site for further details: http://www.ballaerospace.com/p2car.html
Also contact Ken Turnbull at ken@kenturnbull.com for application advice.

CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER
DENVER, COLORADO
Go to http://www.denvergov.org/jump_employment.asp for a access to a variety of listings.

COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (CIRES)
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
BOULDER, COLORADO
Visit http://cires.colorado.edu/jobs.html for listings (mostly research assistant positions).

DIGITALGLOBE
LONGMONT, COLORADO
Job details are at http://www.digitalglobe.com. Navigate to "About Us" and "Careers"

JEPPESEN
ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO
Go to the careers section of the Jeppesen web site at http://www.jeppesen.com.

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP.
AURORA, COLORADO SPRINGS, DENVER, & LITTLETON, COLORADO
Visit http://www.lockheedmartin.com and click on "Careers"

MERRICK & COMPANY
AURORA, COLORADO
Point your web browser to http://www.merrick.com and click on "Career Center"

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP.
AURORA, COLORADO SPRINGS, DENVER, & FT. COLLINS, COLORADO
Go to http://careers.northropgrumman.com/ExternalHorizonsWeb/getCareerHome.do

PIXXURES, INC.
ARVADA, COLORADO
Visit http://www.pixxures.com for current job listings.

PREMIER DATA SERVICES
ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO
Visit Premier Data's web site for more information on these and other openings:
http://www.premierdata.com/company/index.html

RESEARCH SYSTEMS, INC.
BOULDER, COLORADO
See http://www.rsinc.com/opportun/index.asp

SANBORN MAP CO.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
For descriptions, go to http://www.sanborn.com/about_sanborn/careers.htm

SPACE IMAGING
THORNTON, COLORADO
Visit the web site for complete details: http://www.spaceimaging.com/corporate/jobs.htm

URS CORPORATION
DENVER, COLORADO
See http://www.urscorp.com/careers/jobops/index.html for more information.

VEXCEL CORPORATION
BOULDER, COLORADO
See the web site for job descriptions: http://www.vexcel.com

(Supplemental list updated Jan. 12, 2006)

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** Clarification of what it means to have current federal employment "status":

"Applications will be accepted from any qualified individual with current career or career-conditional status, those with reinstatement eligibility, and those eligible under special programs, including Veterans Readjustment Appointment (VRA) eligibles for GS-11/WG-11 (or equivalent), 30% or more compensable disabled veterans, handicapped authority eligibles, and Peace Corps eligibles. Veterans who are preference eligibles or who have been separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions after 3 years or more of continuous active service may apply. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to political, religious or labor organization affiliation or nonaffiliation, marital status, race, color, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or nondisqualifying physical or mental handicap."

(Excerpted from federal employment application materials.)

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