Chris Mohney

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“Twilebrities are people—“tweeple,” in twitspeak”

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Hiring: Senior Development/Project Manager

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Senior Development/Project Manager Position
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BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Senior Development/Project Manager.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books & a visually-arresting monthly magazine. The BlackBook Guides for iPhone is the premiere insider source for the lowdown on the shining culinary stars, dimly lit dive bars, and everything in between in loads of fashionable cities around the world.     

We’re a small team that undertakes projects with the zeal and ability of a much larger department. Our team tackles development on a swiftly growing suite of products, both in sophistication and number. We are seeking an individual to take on the role of overseeing that the development cycle of each of these products is executed efficiently, bug-free and on time.

Responsibilities:

* Drive and coordinate successful development of software products utilizing Agile and Behavioral Software Development methodologies.
* Define software development processes and oversee that those processes are adhered to throughout the entire software development cycle.
* Work both with development team and business stakeholders to ensure software products meet customer expectations within expected timeframes.
* Maintain strict documentation of processes and deliver regular, thorough status reports to managers and other stake.
* Identify and address development cycle inefficiencies including staff weaknesses, development tool bottlenecks and internal communication breakdowns.
* Introduce and implement proven managerial tools for Agile Software Development.
* Identify and address development cycle inefficiencies including staff weaknesses, development tool bottlenecks and internal communication breakdowns.
* Introduce and implement proven managerial tools for Agile Software Development methodologies.
* Maintain team focus and moral while enforcing strict schedules focused on productivity, not long hours.
* Ensure staff is adhering to defined engineering standards such as and not limited to documentation, code check-in/check-out procedures, design reviews and architectural standards
* Assist in preparing detailed analyses, plans, diagrams, and verification procedures for existing and proposed applications.
* Assist in the planning, scheduling, and assigning of development and platform engineering projects.
* Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including requirements capture, writing, testing, and debugging programs.
* Manage

Requirements:

* 3-5 years experience managing development with mid to large-sized teams of enterprise-class software applications.
* Strong understanding of Agile Development Methodologies
* Strong understanding of popular software development languages and application frameworks.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills
* Strict adherence to development standards.
* Familiarity with SOA principles and architecture experience along with 1-2 years of experience in SOA will be plus.
* Experience with the LAMP development environment.
* Experience with Subversion or another version control system - a plus.
* Knowledge of the Symfony PHP framework – a plus
* Experience with Relational Databases
* Familiarity with the latest trends in web application development, new products and mobile standards.

Email cmohney@bbook.com if interested.

Hiring: Systems Engineer

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Systems Engineer Position
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BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Systems Engineer.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books and a visually arresting magazine. BlackBook is expanding its digital offerings across multiple platforms and seeking the talent to do so.

BlackBook Media is looking for a Systems Engineer to join a small team on the continued development of several software development projects. While professional experience is a welcomed attribute to any candidate, the most important requirements are intelligence, dedication and the ability to have fun working in a constructive and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:
•    Maintain complex cluster of Linux web, frontend cache, and database servers
•    Primary decision-maker for hardware and platform decisions for rapidly growing content site and SaaS/API service
•    Plan and maintain high-availability (HA) in support of multiple strict SLAs
•    Work with frontend and backend developers to improve scalability and redundancy of all systems
•    Streamline developer and QA environments through aggressive automation of common tasks
•    Daily maintenance and monitoring of servers
•    Capacity planning and testing for existing and new services/sites
•    Maintain and test disaster recovery plans

Skills:
•    Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS) system administration
•    Previous work on a high-traffic, high-availability site
•    Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3/CloudFront in particular)
•    Build automation tool experience for PHP (Phing, Pake or Maven)
•    Monit and/or Nagios monitoring setup
•    MySQL administration, performance tuning, and replication
•    Apache configuration, monitoring, and tuning
•    Shell scripting for automation of common tasks
•    Knowledge of object-oriented PHP5
•    Experience with the Varnish HTTP proxy (or similar) – a plus
•    Strong knowledge of Ruby – a plus
•    Knowledge of message queues (ActiveMQ, Rabbit, Starling/Kestrel, etc) – a plus

Email cmohney@bbook.com if interested.

Hiring: Lead Architect/Developer

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Lead Architect/Developer Position
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BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Architect/Developer.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books and a visually arresting magazine. BlackBook is expanding its digital offerings across multiple platforms and seeking the talent to do so.

This is a key role in our development organization, involving some management, but the primary job focus is on writing solid code, designing smart systems, and helping guide the rest of the team to do so too. While professional experience is a welcomed attribute to any candidate, the most important requirements are intelligence, dedication and the ability to have fun working in a constructive and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:
•    Lead and review fast-paced development of a small team of PHP developers, including code review, mentoring, and most importantly, actively writing code
•    Make key technical architecture decisions for a well-developed but rapidly evolving custom CMS, API, and client frontend applications on multiple platforms
•    Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications for high capacity and high availability (HA)
•    Work with Systems Engineer to plan for scalability, test capacity, and ensure security of all applications
•    Understand business needs and long-term goals and communicate development needs and progress with senior management
•    Set code standards and best practices for all systems and languages, including fastidious management of SVN repositories
•    Communicate technical information with third-party developers, agencies, and blue-chip clients on forthcoming and already-in-the-wild projects

Skills:
•    Expert in OO PHP5
•    Well-versed in MVC architecture (Symfony in particular)
•    Experience managing and mentoring developers
•    Previous work on a large-scale site
•    Strong knowledge of version management with SVN or similar
•    Experience with MySQL optimization, bottlenecks, and replication
•    Ability to effectively communicate complex technical issues with clients and senior management
•    Prototype/Scriptaculous and/or general Javascript ability
•    Comfortable with common Linux administration tasks
•    Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture principles
•    Experience with common scaling, caching and performance tools (memcached, Varnish, CDNs, etc)
•    API design/implementation (huge plus)
•    Some experience with C and PHP internals (plus)
•    Ruby (plus)
•    Amazon EC2/S3/CloudFront integration (plus)

Email cmohney@bbook.com if interested.

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