Job Posting: VP of Product Development

The company I work for is looking for a VP of Product Development (or Software Development). I have attached the job description below, qualified candida
tes are invited to contact hr@genologics.com.

Company Description

GenoLogics, a world leader in Proteomics workflow and data warehousing software, requires a VP of Product Developm
ent. GenoLogics develops and markets software that increases operational efficiency, reduces cost of ownership of research instrumentation, and enables gro
wth for facilities in the Bio-IT market. GenoLogics is a rapidly growing, fast paced organization. Candidates must thrive in an environment that demands hi
gh quality results within very tight timeframes.

Brief Description

GenoLogics is growing quickly and immediately requires a VP of Product Development to work closely with the VP of Product Management and provide key leader
ship to the product development team. Responsibilities include developing and leading a high-performance product development team, creating and executing d
evelopment plans, implementing and ensuring sound product development mythologies and best practices are utilized, planning and managing development time l
ines, and analyzing and driving critical milestones ensuring all deliverables are completed in accordance with building a world-class enterprise scale LIMS
and informatics software platform.

Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to: coaching and mentoring development team members; shepherding the product development methodolo
gy and communicating it to the executive team and other managers; work with the product steering team to define resource levels, risk, quality, cost, and p
roduct scope management plans; determine delivery schedules and post-implementation plans, define quality controls for each product development phase.

*Duties/Responsibilities *

* Lead a medium sized team of software developers, utilizing widely accepted *best practices* for controlling development progress, cost and resources in r
elation to planned schedule, milestones, and deliverables.

  • Ship well-engineered products, which meet or exceed customer expectations for functionality, usability and quality.

  • Grow the companys platform into a source of sustainable competitive advantage by developing and protecting core proprietary technologies and by sourcing
    and integrating strategic 3rd-party technologies.

  • Build and provide hands on management to the product development team comprised of Java/J2EE developers, bioinformaticians, etc. Expand product developme
    nt capacity by recruiting top technical talent, growing the expertise of the existing development team, implementing productivity-enhancing processes and t
    echnologies, and utilizing external resources as appropriate.

  • Lead, manage, and communicate the product development process, ensuring all team members understand and adhere to agreed upon methodologies and standards
    . Work with VP of Product Management to properly balance speed-to-market and quality of execution competing concerns, and develop realistic yet aggressive
    development timeframes.

  • Participate with other executive team members, corporate directors and advisors, and strategic partners in the formation and execution of corporate and p
    roduct strategy.

Requirements
* Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related

  • Masters in Business, Computer Science, Engineering is preferred

  • Minimum of 15 years in technology industry, with minimum 6 years experience in leading/managing a mid-sized Software Development Team

  • Experience developing and deploying enterprise level software applications

  • Broad technology and architectural understanding – familiarity with Middleware, RDBMS, and Distributed Computing

  • Broad knowledge of software development methodologies

  • Outstanding team management skills

  • Ability to communicate complex technical information to others

  • Excellent organizational and time management skills, including strong attention to detail

  • Strong leadership, management, and organizational skills

  • Ability to thrive in a highly demanding and fast-paced work environment

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills are a must

  • Strong problem solving and decision-making skills

Scroogle : No Ads Google

Scroogle

Just started reading SiliconBeat and came across scroogle.

Look Mom, it’s google without the advertisments.

Personally, I think its ugly and I have no beep with Googles in-search advertisements. I guess this is right up the alley of the google-watch.org support
ers. The source code for the proxy is available for download from the homepage.

An evening with Googles Marissa Mayer

An evening with Googles Marissa May
er (alan.blog-city.com)

Alan Williamson has done a good job of keeping notes from the BayCHI talk he went to given by Google’s Marissa Mayer. It tells an interesting tale of how
the Google UI (plain as it may be) actually came to fruitation.

I like point #13, Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects tha
t grew from this working model
.