From jennifer at pricegrabber.com Wed Oct 3 17:45:26 2007 From: jennifer at pricegrabber.com (Jennifer Maness) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] Job Opportunity at PriceGrabber.com! Message-ID: <017501c8061f$ea8cada0$310e6e3f@Internal.PriceGrabber.com> If you enjoy the challenges of large scale and fast paced developments and love working with a dynamic and ambitious team, without the hassle of politics and red-tape, you have to check us out! We work in small teams within a Linux, Apache, and MySQL environment. Because we are growing, we are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to help us develop quality innovative applications. Responsibilities: * Collaborate on and contribute to a growing codebase of Search Marketing products and tools that serve to manage millions of dollars in revenue per month * Come up with bleeding-edge solutions in a highly competitive and ever-evolving SEM landscape * Define software architecture for the next generation of highly automated applications * Have a "can-do" attitude and work closely with other bright engineers as well as a team of highly-motivated analysts and statisticians Required skills: * Serious Perl skills; if these mean anything to you, you're on the right track: * $|++ * use Thread * bless ($data, $class) * %a = map {uc($_), 1} * our @ISA = qw(Exporter) * MySQL or other relevant RDBMS experience, preferably with exposure to optimizing queries for large-scale data sets * Fluency in Linux or other *nix flavor (Visual programming? Not here!) * Ability to work collaboratively in a shared code environment * Experience developing SEM products on the client-facing side (i.e. major online retailer, agency, CSE, etc.); experience in the financial sector specific to yield-based optimization is also great * Application development fundamentals, including but not limited to object-oriented programming, test-driven development and automation Nice-to-haves: * B.S. (or M.S.) in Computer Science * Previous development of automated bidding systems * Familiarity with working in an Agile/Scrum project management environment * Frontend development using PHP in a LAMP paradigm * User interface design for interactive web-based applications In addition to a company-matched 401K, tuition reimbursement, medical, dental, and vision insurance, we offer a jeans-and-flip-flop casual working environment with a fully stocked kitchen, monthly parties, and great people. To express interest in this position, please send your resume to Jobs at PriceGrabber.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/losangeles-pm-admins/attachments/20071003/b10c1b6d/attachment.html From al at eQuestSolutions.com Mon Oct 8 08:34:35 2007 From: al at eQuestSolutions.com (Al Karaptian 310.937.3388) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:34:35 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] OO Perl/Linux Administration Contract Message-ID: <05a201c809c0$bbbc74c0$cb016b47@eQuest> Hello, I am a recruiter and would like to know the appropriate/proper method of making the following opportunity available to your members. I have the following OO Perl/Linux Administration contract (100% telecommute) position available. Do you have experience with both OO Perl for high volume/high performance web sites AND some Linux Administration? If so, please read the job description/requirements below carefully, send me an updated resume that details this necessary experience and then I will call you to tell you all about the company, position and team. OO Perl Developer Location: anywhere in U.S. (100% telecommuting) Rate: $40-50/hr (DOE) 1099 or Corp to Corp A new start up is looking for an OO Perl contractor that can also support some Linux servers. The company is in the business of credit card transaction processing, is fully funded and has a development staff of 5-6. The architecture and data model designs are complete and the initial OO Perl Development begun. The OO Perl developer will be responsible for the new development of a high volume credit card processing system from the ground up expected to handle 10K transactions/day. The OO Perl is currently developed and deployed on Debian Linux with MySQL (InnoDB) on the backend. The position also involves 24/7 Operations support of Linux servers. The position will approximately consist of 75% Perl Development and 25% Linux Administration This position is almost 100% telecommuting as once every 3-4 months the company will pay all expenses for meetings in Las Vegas. REQUIREMENTS MUST have 2+ yrs of OO Perl development on Linux for high volume applications and/or systems MUST have solid database skills (preferable MySQL) including the ability to design relational databases, interface OO Perl code with databases and SQL optimization of queries. Oracle is acceptable. MUST have some Linux System Administration experience Since this is a 100% telecommuting position, good over the phone communication skills mandatory. Plus: MySQL InnoDB mode OR MySQL (any mode) AND either Oracle, Postgres, or Informix Familiar with using ORM (Object Relational Mapping) Experinence using Subversion for Configuration Management Experience with Rose-DB-Object Any DBA skills is a plus but not necessary Thank You, Al Karaptian eQuest Solutions 310.937.3388 al at eQuestSolutions.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/losangeles-pm-admins/attachments/20071008/ef825462/attachment.html From pablo at paeli.com Fri Oct 5 21:57:51 2007 From: pablo at paeli.com (Pablo Velasquez) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:57:51 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] Fwd: Losangeles-pm-admins post from jennifer@pricegrabber.com requires approval Message-ID: <200710052157.51549.pablo@paeli.com> Received this from pricegrabber person... ----------------------- As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: Losangeles-pm-admins at pm.org From: jennifer at pricegrabber.com Subject: Corporate questions Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list At your convenience, visit: http://mail.pm.org/mailman/admindb/losangeles-pm-admins to approve or deny the request. To Whom It May Concern: I work w/ Kate Paneno at PriceGrabber and have a few questions for you regarding ways in which we may be able to help each other out. Firstly, I noticed that you have unofficial sponsors. Are you looking for others? If so, what can we do to help? Secondly, I'd like to post a job opening to your users (see attached). Is there a simple way for me to do this? And finally, I think Kate has mentioned this, but we would gladly offer up our office for any meetings you may want to do in the future. Please let me know if I can help out in that regard. Many thanks in advance, Jennifer Maness, Sr. Recruiter PriceGrabber.com 10940 Wilshire Blvd, 11th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90024 o: 310.954.1040 x358 f: 310.824.8658 e: Jennifer at PriceGrabber.com If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line of the body of the reply. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Senior Software Engineer - SEM.doc Type: application/msword Size: 55808 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/losangeles-pm-admins/attachments/20071005/9e6592b6/attachment-0001.doc From naterajj at gmail.com Thu Oct 18 09:56:31 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:56:31 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] Let's meet today Message-ID: <349627440710180956n3a215f80n3c7ed88d322f8598@mail.gmail.com> Hi guys, Can we meet today? Juan From naterajj at gmail.com Fri Oct 26 08:02:52 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:02:52 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] [DRAFT] LA.pm Tech. Meeting Nov 8th Message-ID: <349627440710260802v4b392db2n395a4457928f116d@mail.gmail.com> Announcing LA.pm's next technical meeting! What: Open, but see below When: Thursday, Nov. 8th 2007 from 7:00pm to 9pm Where: Rent.com 2425 Olympic Blvd, Suite 400E Santa Monica, CA We don't have a set speaker for this meeting, and thus we are going to try something different. We have 2 hours for speaking of Perl related subjects and we're going to start with: * Perl 5.10 for People Who Aren't Totally Insane - Juan Natera (20 Minutes): I will be repeating the presentation given by Ricardo Signes (rjbs) at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2007 * Creating Domain Specific Languages with Parrot - Juan Natera (30 Minutes): I will demonstrate how to use Parrot to create a language designed specifically for making flight reservations. The rest of the time (70 minutes) is available for other speakers, all you have to do is send a reply to this email saying what will you be talking about and for how long, until we run out of time. If nobody else offers to speak then we will have short meeting. Rent.com is an Ebay company, and one of the local Perl shops, they are located in Santa Monica. Find out more at http://www.rent.com/company/why IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2425+Olympic+Blvd,+Suite+400E,+Santa+Monica,+CA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.50801,111.621094&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1 Parking Instructions: *** Attendees please make sure to park in the Visitors section. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO BRING YOUR PARKING TICKETS FOR VALIDATION *** Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. The LA.pm Team From naterajj at gmail.com Fri Oct 26 11:38:57 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:38:57 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] [DRAFT] LA.pm Tech. Meeting Nov 8th In-Reply-To: <349627440710260802v4b392db2n395a4457928f116d@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440710260802v4b392db2n395a4457928f116d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <349627440710261138n4037d009y85e9a7e70728e876@mail.gmail.com> > We don't have a set speaker for this meeting, and thus we are going to > try something different. We have 2 hours for speaking of Perl related > subjects and we're going to start with: I guess that should be "We don't have a speaker set for this meeting". Any comments? Juan From nimish.parmar at gmail.com Fri Oct 26 11:45:21 2007 From: nimish.parmar at gmail.com (Nimish Parmar) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:45:21 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] [DRAFT] LA.pm Tech. Meeting Nov 8th In-Reply-To: <349627440710261138n4037d009y85e9a7e70728e876@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440710260802v4b392db2n395a4457928f116d@mail.gmail.com> <349627440710261138n4037d009y85e9a7e70728e876@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Works either way. "We don't have a speaker set for this meeting" sounds straightforward. On 10/26/07, Juan Jose Natera wrote: > > > We don't have a set speaker for this meeting, and thus we are going to > > try something different. We have 2 hours for speaking of Perl related > > subjects and we're going to start with: > > I guess that should be "We don't have a speaker set for this meeting". > > Any comments? > > Juan > _______________________________________________ > Losangeles-pm-admins mailing list > Losangeles-pm-admins at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/losangeles-pm-admins > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/losangeles-pm-admins/attachments/20071026/7c7c7ea6/attachment.html From naterajj at gmail.com Fri Oct 26 15:08:48 2007 From: naterajj at gmail.com (Juan Jose Natera) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:08:48 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] [DRAFT] LA.pm Tech. Meeting Nov 8th In-Reply-To: References: <349627440710260802v4b392db2n395a4457928f116d@mail.gmail.com> <349627440710261138n4037d009y85e9a7e70728e876@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <349627440710261508s2cd354a4s4b005789875a36f8@mail.gmail.com> On 10/26/07, Nimish Parmar wrote: > Works either way. "We don't have a speaker set for this meeting" sounds > straightforward. Cool thanks, So other than that, Yay or Nay? From nimish.parmar at gmail.com Fri Oct 26 15:11:27 2007 From: nimish.parmar at gmail.com (Nimish Parmar) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:11:27 -0700 Subject: [Losangeles-pm-admins] [DRAFT] LA.pm Tech. Meeting Nov 8th In-Reply-To: <349627440710261508s2cd354a4s4b005789875a36f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <349627440710260802v4b392db2n395a4457928f116d@mail.gmail.com> <349627440710261138n4037d009y85e9a7e70728e876@mail.gmail.com> <349627440710261508s2cd354a4s4b005789875a36f8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Yay baby yay!! On 10/26/07, Juan Jose Natera wrote: > > On 10/26/07, Nimish Parmar wrote: > > Works either way. "We don't have a speaker set for this meeting" sounds > > straightforward. > > Cool thanks, > > So other than that, Yay or Nay? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/losangeles-pm-admins/attachments/20071026/1f2a2045/attachment.html