ISIS Intranet Blog

Senior Level .NET / Web Services Developer

2011-03-09T13:44:00.002-05:00

We are looking for Senior Level VB.net/Web Services developers to team up with Computer Alli to develop applications for a Fortune 300 client of ours located in Suwanee Georgia. Our company is a custom web-based application development firm. We specialize in custom Internet-based applications and CRM/Intranet development using the latest technologies.

Developer must be motivated, self-disciplined and have the ability to perform various levels of client interaction. The ideal candidate for this position should be very flexible, intuitive, and capable of operating under a number of time sensitive situations. This position requires the highest level of customer service and satisfaction. Understanding and following the organization's goals, objectives, and policies are crucial.

Responsibilities will include leading or assisting project managers and developers in determining client requirements, assisting in estimating, technical design, coding, testing, implementation, and support of custom web applications. Developer must be able to work independently and with other team members. Position may consist of the full life cycle of some project management, client interaction, and development. Developer must be very organized and driven. A strong analytical sense and knowledge of business rules in general will play a large part.

These positions are "Contractor" based. Size and length of projects will vary.

Want to be in charge of your destiny?

If you are a hard core producer, have a positive driven attitude and have attributes consisting of hard working, producing results, and problem solving, you will be successful with our company.

Required Skills:

7+ Years VB.NET

3+ Years Web Services

Experience with Microsoft WC & WorkFlow Foundations

Experience with Microsoft Enterprise Library. VAB (Validation Application Block) or something similar.

Experience with Biztalk

Experience with Test Driven development

Experience with .NET WinForms

Traditional ASP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL.

7+ Years MS-SQL Server.

3+ Years Oracle

Experience with ADO.NET (not ADO Entity Framework).

Experience WPF/XAML/Silverlight

Strong Object Oriented design experience for web-based solutions

Familiarity with Enterprise Architect (or equivalent) tools and processes

Proficiency in version control principles, with specific knowledge of Team Foundation Server

Very strong with database concepts

Experience building AJAX web applications

Experience with ActionScript, Flex, CSS, Ruby on Rails, or Python, etc. is a bonus

Non-Tech Skills:

Organized and communicative!

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.

Strong communication skills to include both verbal and written

Strong core values:

1. Delivering on your promise.

2.Longterm relationships

3. Communicate clearly.

4.Be proactive.

Computer Alli, Inc. Job Opening - Sr. Web Applications Developer

2010-09-30T09:47:00.000-04:00

Computer Alli, Inc. Job Opening - Sr. Web Applications Developer

Our company is a custom web-base application development firm. We are looking for senior level VB.net and Web Services developers to team up with a Fortune 500 client of ours located in Suwanee Georgia. We specialize in web-based applications and intranets using the latest technologies. This will start as a 3 to 4 month project with more opportunity to follow. Developers must be motivated, self-disciplined and have the ability to perform various levels of project management when necessary. The ideal candidate for this position should be very flexible, intuitive, and capable of operating under a number of time sensitive situations. Developer must be very organized and driven. A strong analytical sense and knowledge of business in general will play a large part. These positions require the highest level of customer satisfaction through web technologies. Understanding of the organization's goals and objectives are crucial. Responsibilities will include leading or assisting project managers in determining client requirements, assisting in creating proposals, technical design, coding, testing, implementation, and support of custom web applications. Some positions have a need for a higher level of project management. Developer must be able to work independently as well as a team member with developers, clients, and management.
If you have an entrepreneurial attitude and attributes consisting of hard working, producing results, and problem solving, you will have a successful career with us.

Required Skills:

5+ years of VB.NET

Traditional ASP, HTML, JavaScript, XML, XSL, Web Services

Programming experience with SQL Server. Creating tables, indexes and writing stored procedures.

Ability to estimate project labor hours.

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
Strong communication skills to include both verbal and written

Skills in Object Oriented Programming

Desired Skills:

Ability to estimate project labor hours.
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
Strong communication skills to include both verbal and written.
High level of attention to detail.
Strong core values of
1. Delivering on your promise.
2.Longterm relationships
3. Communicate clearly.
4.Be proactive.

Non-Tech Skills:

Organized and communicative!

iPhone Applications I recommend

2010-07-15T08:44:00.000-04:00

iPhone Applications I recommend

1. Tripit (This is a very cool app that you forward your trip itinerary's to and it loads them in a list easy to read)

2. Chess with Friends (Great collaborative chess game)

3. Words with friends (Great collaborative Scrabble game)

4. GPS Drive Motion X (GPS application)

5. Kayak (Flight and hotel pricing app.)

6. Yellow pages (Great for finding stuff in your area)

7. Amazon Kindle (If you read books)

8. Bible (Has many bible versions)

9. Engadget (Technology Blog)

10. NY Times (NEWS)

11. USA Today (NEWS)

12. NPR News (NEWS)

13. Facebook

14. Linkedin

15. Mint (Finance application that hooks into all you accounts and credit cards)

16. Scanner 911 (Listen to all emergency channels)

17. Dragon Dictation (Great voice to text converter)

18. Red Laser (Scan Bar-codes and find items cheaper)

19. eBay

20. CardStar (Great for tracking all those plastic keyring cards)

21. Apple Store

22. Groupon (Great group buying deals)

23. Google (I like the voice searches)

24. Dictionary

25. Starbucks (Track your starbucks card $$$ used)

26. Urbanspoon (Lookup restaurants and rate them)

New ISIS iPad interface

2010-06-21T12:10:00.007-04:00

ISIS Login Page

ISIS Landing Page (Dashboard)

ISIS Contact Page

ISIS News Page

ISIS Activity Page

ISIS Opportunity Page

ISIS Project Page

ISIS Documents Page

ISIS Forums Page

ISIS Time-sheet Page

ISIS History Page

iPad Applications I recommend.

2010-05-25T09:56:00.002-04:00

iPad application I recommend! Of Course you need a iPad to get these.

ISIS for the iPad is a Web based iPad application (You need a ISIS iPad subscription to use this www.ISISintranet.com)
Word processor app by Apple is called Pages.
Kayak Flights - Free
ABC player – Free
Yellow pages – Free
Ebay – Free
NY Times – Free
USA today – Free
AccuWeater – I think it's free, not sure
Kindle – Free
Bloomberg – Free
IMDB – Free (Great Movie Database)
Pandora – Free
Amazon – Free
Google – Free
Zinio – Free (It’s a magazine reader, the magazines cost $)
GoDocs (Not free) for google docs offline
GoToMeeting – Free (If you use the GoToMeeting service)
Dragon Dictation – Free
NPR – Free (Great for listening to NEWS stories)
Calculator XL (I think it’s a dollar)
Yahoo Entertainment – Free
Twitterrific (Not sure what this cost) Good for tracking people on Twitter
Web Albums (If you use the Free Google photos on the web – Picasa)

New ISIS iPhone interface features.

2010-02-09T12:50:00.001-05:00

Adding and Editing - Company/Contact information.

We have added the ability to Add/Edit a Company or Contact information. Just selet the "+" sign on the top right side on the Search contact screen and add a contact to an exsisting company or to a new company.

Adding and Editing - Activity information.
We have also added the ability to Add/Edit Activity information as well!

Computer Alli is looking for software developers

2009-12-16T15:09:00.007-05:00

Open position: Software Developers

Positions are fulltime contracts

Contact: Rick Johnson, (770) 614-7772 x102, rick@computeralli.com

Computer Alli is a custom web-based application development firm looking for versatile software developers. Developers must be motivated, self-disciplined and have the ability to perform various levels of client/project management when necessary.The ideal candidate for this position should be very flexible, intuitive, and capable of operating under a number of time sensitive situations. This position requires the highest level of customer satisfaction through web technologies. Understanding of the organization's goals and objectives are crucial.

Developer will work from the comforts of their home. Some company meetings and possible client visits will be required. Responsibilities will include leading or assisting project managers in determining client requirements, assisting in creating proposals, technical design, software development, testing, implementation, and support of custom web applications.

Developer must be able to work independently as well as a team member with developers, clients, and management. Some of these positions will consist of the full life cycle of project management, client interaction, and development. We specialize in web-based applications and intranets using the latest technologies. We are assisting companies from small to fortune sized. Developer must be very organized and in most cases, able to manage multiple projects. A strong analytical sense and knowledge of business in general will play a large part of this position.

Cold Fusion Required Skills:

5+ years of Cold Fusion.
Programming experience with SQL Server. Creating tables, indexes and writing stored procedures.

.NET Required Skills:

5+ years of Design and Development of web applications.
2+ years of Senior Development experience
Programming experience with SQL Server. Creating tables, indexes and writing stored procedures etc.
Expert experience with C#/.Net Development
Experience developing class, Windows forms, and XML Web Service applications using C#.
ASP.NET

Desired Skills:

CRM applications, Intranets. .net / PHP, Cold Fusion

Preferred skills include:

MS SQL Server
JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX
HTML/CSS
Object Oriented Development
Multi-tier application designs, .NET 2.0 or higher
Ability to estimate project labor hours.
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
Strong communication skills to include both verbal and written.
High level of attention to detail.
Capable of delivering assigned projects with minimal supervision.
Background Check

Non-Tech Skills:

Customer Service, Excellent verbal & written communications.
Strong core values:

1. Delivering on your promise

2. Longterm relationships

3. Communicate clearly

4. Be proactive

Product Lines and Contact Grouping

2009-11-19T14:05:00.003-05:00

Does your organization have multiple product lines that you sell? Do they have different sales processes for each? Do you possibly have different people that specialize in certain product lines and you want to track how they are moving along in a sales process? Maybe someone at your company has a specific industry they or market segment they work in that you want to be able to run call or opportunity reporting for.

If this sounds like your company you are not alone. I have dealt with many different companies and their sales processes over the past 20+ years and these items I mentioned are very common. In fact, most companies don't even realize they have different sales processes that are unique to each product line and missing or adding a step could loose a sales opportunity.

I find it interesting that when you first start talking with an organization about automating their sales processes it always makes them think through how they do things manually, or how they currently try to handle these processes in a disjointed fashion in multiple software applications and spreadsheets. Remember, if you try to automate a process that you don't really understand or have not thought through you are setting yourself up for failure or at best case a inefficient way of doing business which cost you money. If you sell a product or products that takes more than a impulse to buy in a retail store in less than 5 minutes you probably have a more complex sales process. Have you written down what your sales process really is? Most salespeople I know have the sales process in their mind and know it intuitively. However, when you write it down and share it with your other sales associates or managers you may find out there are some important steps you are missing that if taken can increase your chances of a sale or a faster close time. Better yet, what if you could look at your pipeline and see all the prospects that are in the same sales stages that you could review and easily identify common needs and move them to the next stage in a better or faster way? So many salespeople are so busy making calls and sending emails that they miss the little things that are right under their noses that could be that one thing to help them close a deal today. Being able to first identify your sales processes per product line, then your market segments or industries is the first step. Then take this information and populate it into your Contact database so you can quickly move your prospects along the sales stages is important. Don't just try to lump your contacts together in Hot, Warm or Cold groups. You know that in a complex sales cycle there is much more to it than that. In a market like the one we are in time is valuable. Make sure you are using yours wisely.

Also if you have to do any sales prospect reporting to your boss he/she will be very impressed that you have not only taken the time to think through your processes but to organize your leads in a way that matches your entire sales work-flow.

You can find below a sample sales process flow chart along with some screen shots of our ISIS products with sample Product lines and Sales stages.

Sample Sales Process

2009-10-26T17:19:00.005-04:00

ISIS can track and emulate many types of sales processes. From multiple product lines, Sales stages, Activitiy and Opportunity tracking to Quotes and Invoices.
Here's a sample:

Tasks / Activities File Attachments

2009-09-16T11:58:00.015-04:00

We have added the ability to attach and upload files with a "Task/Activity". You can attach as many as you would like to each "Task".

Task/Activity listing. The List now shows a "paper clip" when it has a file associated with it.

Inside the Contacts module under the Document section you can see files that have Task/Associated with them.

Mobile ISIS iPhone Interface

2009-08-03T13:00:00.006-04:00

The ISIS iPhone, Blackberry and other mobile browser
interfaces are free with your basic ISIS subscription.

Expense Tracking and approval system

2009-07-21T13:51:00.007-04:00

Within ISIS you can have a employee/Sub contractor fill out a timesheet and the expenses that go along with it all in the same form. Then a HR Manager can approve and track whether the expense has been reimbursed.

HR Skillset Tracking

2009-07-21T13:41:00.007-04:00

Human Resource Users and Manager are able to track Employee and Prospective Employee/Sub-Contractor Skills and Resumes. Setup someones skillsets and rate there proficiency and search the system based on these skills and ratings. _____________________________________________________
We can also create a form on your external Website that can dump this information into the Contact manager for applicants for your HR department to search on.

"Content" Search feature.

2009-07-21T12:13:00.007-04:00

We have added the ability to search the Employee Handbook / Policy and Procedure content section.

Click on the image below to see in High Resolution.

Qualifying Questions?

2008-09-30T09:48:00.006-04:00

The Ability to create your own questions with multiple answer types is here!!!!

Contact Administrators are able to create general Questions groups, per Product line or other custom groups. This will be a great tool to gather all the information you need from new Prospective Customers and Employees.

Look at our Video for a demo and more details. http://isisintranet.com/media/lookup_contents_detail.cfm?LibraryID=317

MS Exchange and ISIS Integration

2008-09-23T16:16:00.004-04:00

New Feature:
We have decided to have Calendar (Calls and Meetings) synchronized with MS Exchange instead of MS Outlook like all the other guys. This way you don't have to have Outlook open to Sync Calls and Meetings and you don't need any Client side software either.

Say your on your Blackberry, iPhone, Palm or any other PDA that can Sync wirelessly with Exchange Server and you add an appointment. Once the appointment is in MS Exchange then it will auotmaticly Sync to ISIS even though you did not open MS Outlook. Also if someone puts an appointment on your ISIS Calendar and your PDA can sync to a Exchange server then you get it automatically added to your PDA even though Outlook was never opened.
We are really excited about this feature since so many people use MS Outlook/MS Exchange in their businesses. We will also be adding Task synchronization in the near future as well.
We will keep you posted on a release date.
Shawn

New tracking (via email) Birthdays and Aniversary's with ISIS

2008-08-29T15:11:00.004-04:00

We have added a new ISIS CRM feature to not only track a contacts anniversary and birthday but to also notify users via email prior to the day. Look here in our ISIS Media library for more details. http://isisintranet.com/media/lookup_contents_detail.cfm?LibraryID=320
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
Shawn

ISIS with an iPhone

2008-06-06T15:16:00.005-04:00

In this video I show you how to access ISIS real-time in a web browser using an Apple iPhone.