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Hi folks,

Comverse is looking for some people to work out of the NJ office.  Following are the job descriptions and contact info.  If interested, tell Shannon who sent ya' at shannon.freeze@comverse.com. Feel free to email me if you have general questions.

-Rick Gardner

Descriptions:

PROGRAM MANAGER

Position Overview:

The program manager will apply specialized knowledge of telephony systems along with strong project management skills to define project scope, plan, schedule, and document activity. Translate general customer business needs into concrete goals and plans.  Work with and may direct the actions of Comverse's customers, and/or sales team members.  The program manager is responsible for customer satisfaction and quality of project deliverables.

Principal Activities:

Program Management

1.         Effectively use project management tools and techniques to plan and organize the work of multi-site projects.  (Microsoft Project Management)

2.         Effectively lead ad hoc teams of people; provides direction, audits progress and results ad hoc.

3.         Manage projects to agreed to timelines and financial objectives.

4.         Interfaces with customers, leads sessions, present to and monitor customer project teams to ensure completion of programs.

5.         Influence both the customer and field organizations on appropriate process / implementation for PPS.

Customer Satisfaction

1.         Directly interfaces with the customer to manage work outcomes and expectations.

2.         Solicits input and redirects activity to ensure all team members work to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.

3.         Responsible for opening lines of communication, monitors customer problems, and ensures effective resolution.

Communications

1.          Influence customer expectations.

2.          Produce written documents related to their work.

3.          Effectively escalate through appropriate channels - "knows how to make things happen."

Leadership Responsibility

Proven skills managing in a matrix organization where no formal authority is recognized.

Knowledge/Skill Requirements     

1.   Require technical and business related degrees - Prefer MSc or MBA

2.   5+ years Telco / telecom consulting / telecom vendor experience

3.   4+ years project management / consulting skills

4.   Experienced with Diverse, Heterogeneous, Distributed Processing Systems Operating Systems

5.   Unix Applications: Informix, Oracle

6.   Telecommunication software experience (OSS preferred), SS7 switching and Real-Time a plus.

7.   Excellent presentation and written skills

Travel ~ 25%

RELEASE MANAGER

Position Overview

Responsible for managing, monitoring and coordination of software releases to market.  The release manager will work with Product Management, R&D, Test and Support to insure a smooth and seamless release of software products to the market. Works with management to assign and manage priorities.

1.          Ensures project deliverables are well defined, assigned an owner and that specific activities (Design Reviews, Code Reviews, Unit Test, Integration Test, etc.) are well tracked

2.          Responsible for motivating the project team and sustaining its efforts.

3.          Performs transition of project to Continuing Engineering (as referenced in ISO documents).

4.          Coordinates all aspects of a release lifecycle including development/test activities.

5.          Tracks and monitors project expenditure vs. project budget.

6.          Resolves conflicts between project teams (or within the R&D team) for each release.

7.          Must adhere to and comply with ISO standards for areas of "Product Life Cycle" and "Project    Coordination and Tracking" documents.  Reviews and responds to project-level audit inquiries.

8.         Introduces process changes as appropriate to help facilitate the delivery of quality products

Technical Skills

1.         Experience in the coordination and management of releasing software products to market

2.         Best practices - experienced with SEI CMM, ISO9000 or other Software Engineering methodologies

3.        Strong technical knowledge of voice processing systems and applications including hardware and software.

4.         A background in software development, hands on approach required.

5.         Must have the ability to develop and monitor project schedules and timelines to identify critical milestones

6.         Must have proven MS Project skills and other software applications to produce project records (for example, MS ACCESS, MS Word, and MS Excel).

7.          Must have strong Project Management Skills (PMI Certification preferred)

Experience 

1.           3 - 5 years of experience in software development of telecommunications products.

2.           3 years of management experience in the telecommunications products industry.

3.           5+ years of relevant project management/coordination experience.

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE or other engineering discipline. PMI Certification is desired 

System Engineer - Billing Solutions

Position Overview

The system engineer will work with program management and customers to define requirements for customer-specific needs based on the Comverse RTBS system; work with 3rd party developers to define and develop the solutions to those customer problems.  Ensure design of the solution is consistent with RTBS reliability, availability and performance goals.  Provide project management oversight of the 3rd party development organization during the development of the solution.

Technical Skills required

1.         Knowledge of telecom billing concepts and systems

2.         Knowledge of telephone network (wireless and wireline) architectures and their components

3.         Ability to write and convey requirement and high-level design specifications for remote     development organizations

4.         Experience with operations and management of distributed systems

5.          Familiarity with Oracle database concepts

Experience and Education  

Bachelor's Degree and 7 years development experience, of which 3 years should be in the area of system engineering, project management or equivalent.

Other      

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate, through previous experience, effective use of reading, writing and oral communication skills, presentation techniques and interpersonal relations needed to relay and explain facts, convey information and otherwise gain buy-in from customers and staff personnel at all levels.

xKenan Folks,

REAL Software Systems will be hiring additional Project Consultants in our Cambridge and Los Angeles locations in the next few months. Please see the role description below and respond as indicated if you are interested. We will be conducting onsite interviews in Cambridge and Los Angeles during late January and early February so please make your submissions ASAP. Please make sure to copy me on any submissions and/or give me a call at  (818) 313-8008 with any questions. Also, feel free to send this note on to other interested parties outside of the xKenan community.  My best wishes to you in 2004.

Project Consulting

REAL Software Systems (RSS) provides software products for managing royalty and revenue sharing agreements. During the past 11 years RSS has successfully deployed its products for market leaders in the Entertainment, Publishing, High Technology, and Life Sciences industries. RSS was founded in 1993 and has enjoyed profitable growth and innovation in its product base, customer base, and corporate culture. RSS has offices in Los Angeles and Cambridge and is in the beginning stages developing its European operations.

Opportunity: We are looking for proactive, detail oriented people to work with our customers and partners to implement our enterprise class software products. RSS offers career development opportunities, competitive salaries, attractive benefits, and a fantastic corporate culture.

Location: Cambridge and Los Angeles.

Requirements: 3+ years experience performing enterprise software implementation. Must have excellent communication, analytical, and problem resolution skills.

Desired Knowledge/Skills:

• Experience with enterprise class financial software.
• Experience with project management of large-scale software implementations.
• Experience with customer support and training.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server (other relational databases a plus).

Contact Information: Please send your resume via email in Word or Rich Text format to recruiting@realsoftwaresystems.com with “Consulting Position” indicated as the subject.

Kent Sahin <ksahin@realsoftwaresystems.com>
- Wednesday, January 14, 2004 at 08:25:50 (EDT)

Need Online Help Writer

I know of a company in Cambridge that is looking for an online help  writer (contract position). They are asking for 3 years of experience writing online help and strong knowledge of robohelp. Email me for more details.  

Request for Info

Also, I am looking for a part-time (contract or permanent) tech writing work (non-online help job).   My daughter is 16 months old and  I don't want to work full-time yet, but I'm ready for part-time. If anyone knows the names of documentation managers at any companies, whether you work there or not, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know. I don't have to mention where the info came from ;-). I want to be able to contact hiring managers directly (even if they are not hiring right now), instead of sending resumes into black holes (which would be interesting if you're conducting an astronomical experiment, but sucks when you are job hunting).

Thanks,

Lisa

Lisa Abbate <lisaabbate@yahoo.com>
- Monday, November 10, 2003 at 7:19:42 (EDT)

xKenan Folks,

As some of you may know I am the President of an enterprise software company named REAL Software Systems (RSS) which has operations in Los Angeles and Cambridge. Currently, the primary location for Consulting, Support, and Development is in Los Angeles. RSS has been in existence for 10 years and provides enterprise class Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solutions used to manage the financial commitments of intellectual property licensing agreements. RSS has successfully deployed its products to manage royalties, profit participations, and other partner settlement models utilized by companies in Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences, and High Tech. RSS has an impressive culture, customer list, and market opportunity. Some of the drivers for growth include the growing focus on corporate governance, the convergence of media, and the efficiencies of licensing intellectual property as compared with original R&D.

We will be filling the following roles during the next few months. If you are interested in the roles below or know someone who might be please either email your resume to me or to recruiting@realsoftwaresystems.com. Please make sure to indicate which role(s) you are interested in and, in the case of Project Consulting, in which location.

• Customer Support (Los Angeles)
• Project Consulting (Los Angeles, Cambridge)
• Technical Consulting/Software Configuration (Los Angeles)
• Software Development (Los Angeles)

Please feel welcome to give me a call to discuss these roles at (818) 313-8008.

Regards,

Kent Sahin

Kent Sahin <ksahin@realsoftwaresystems.com>
- Thursday, September 25, 2003 at 12:46:50 (EDT)

Hey everyone! The company I'm currently with is hiring s/w engineers (j2ee) for positions in Waltham, MA. Also looking for some technical consultants for west coast and east coast positions. send me your resume if you are interested. www.idiominc.com take care! Paul
Paul Algreen <palgreen@alum.mit.edu>
- Monday, October 21, 2002 at 12:46:50 (EDT)

Please join me for refreshment or two and snacks to talk about old times as well as what is new in your lives and in mine. I might even bring some of my new hats and tell some corny stories. When: Thursday, the 14th of November at 6:00 p.m. Where The Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge (of course) Ileen Winick has volunteered to organize the event with assistance from me. Please RSVP to her at iwinick@attbi.com. I hope to see you there. Significant others are welcome. Best Regards, Kenan

Kenan Sahin and Ileen Winick <iwinick@attbi.com>
- Tuesday, October 15, 2002 at 21:51:15 (EDT)

I am now running an enterprise software company named REAL Software Systems.  The company has been around in different forms for 9 years.  I started as President in July and have relocated to Los Angeles, CA where the bulk of the company is located.  We also have a growing sales and service office in Kendall Square.  RSS has a fantastic team, culture and future!

RSS develops and sells enterprise software products which are used by 20 companies focusing on Media Distribution, Life Sciences, or Technical Innovation.   Our products enable our customers to automate the processing and management of the financial reconciliation required by most intellectual property license agreements.  This function is commonly referred to as royalty management or profit participation management.  Many of our customers consider our products to be their strategic platform for the financial management of content and innovation partnerships.  We are the only company with a product solution extensible across multiple industries.  Our competition chose to build vertical applications.  The on-going convergence in each of our focus markets is a key factor influencing our success (sound familiar?).   Also, as companies focus on new sources of revenue and accounting transparency they are fast tracking the development of best practices in intellectual property financial management.    

You can take a look at our web site at www.realsoftwaresystems.com .  

We have a few development positions open in Los Angeles.  For those willing to relocate I can assure you that LA is one fantastic place to live and work.   Candidates should have at least two years of PowerBuilder experience.  Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PVCS, Microsoft Excel, InstallShield, and Actuate are a plus.  Please send resumes to:    recruiting@realsoftwaresystems.com

Kent Sahin <ksahin@realsoftwaresystems.com>
- Monday, October 7, 2002 at 23:08:19 (EDT)

Hope you all are doing well.
--
bjorn
Bjorn Langoren <blangoren@yahoo.com>
- Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 12:43:19 (EDT)