Direct-hire Instructional Designer Opportunity in Richardson, TX

Instructional Designer is responsible for various tasks related to training and development functions. The Instructional Designer leads designs and develops training and instructional materials for internal teammates and stakeholders on a variety of topics. This position will ensure the instructional integrity of each training deliverable through measuring training effectiveness. The Instructional Designer must possess strong project management skills, be able to handle multiple tasks and assist the management team to ensure the strategy and directional goals of the company are achieved.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with stakeholders and other Teammates to analyze their needs and develop customized training solutions.
  • Manage the instructional design and performance improvement processes from needs analysis through evaluation
  • Collaborate with ID Manager, Director of Organizational Development and other Talent Development leaders to actively search, creatively design and implement effective methods to educate, and enhance teammate performance through training programs
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts and various levels of management to analyze learning needs as well as identify any deficiencies in knowledge, skills, attitudes, or competencies required to perform job related tasks effectively
  • Apply adult learning theory to produce interactive and relevant learning solutions that enhance teammate performance and are consistent with internal standards and best practices
  • Assist to develop evaluation processes that will evaluate quality and effectiveness of learning programs and curriculum to implement and transform content for increased proficiency
  • Design and develop internally branded, instructionally sound e-learning modules, training videos, instructor-led courses, user guides, job aids and other training resources
  • Create content that meets clearly defined objectives and competency requirements
  • Develop content outlines, scripts, detailed prototypes and storyboards for training modules
  • Demonstrate mastery of best practices in e-learning design and development, including development software, SCORM conformance, awareness of Section 508 compliance, and course integration with LMS
  • Work cross-functionally with facilitators to apply a variety of learning techniques to determine appropriate media for coursework
  • Project Management skills – Organizes and prioritizes work, manages multiple tasks and projects, and functions effectively as a self-directed leader of multiple initiatives

Functional Job Competencies:

Job Competencies are an additional component to defining a job that addresses how we do things. Just as every job requires specific job skills and job knowledge that are unique to the job; different jobs require specific job competencies that you must have in order to do the job successfully.

  • Written Communications: Is able to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; can get messages across that have the desired effect.
  • Business Acumen: Knows how businesses work; knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting his/her business and organization; knows the competition; is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.
  • Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
  • Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.
  • Organizing: Can marshal resources (people, funding, material, and support) to get things done; can orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; uses resources effectively and efficiently; arranges information and files in a useful manner.
  • Technical Learning: Notices technical things quickly; can learn new skills and knowledge; is good at learning new industry, company, product, or technical knowledge; does well in technical courses and seminars.
  • Creativity: Comes up with many new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
  • Innovation Management: Is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market; has good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; has a sense about managing the creative process of others; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.

Core Competencies:

  • Collaboration: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
  • Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments
  • Cultivates InnovationCreates new and better ways for the organization to be successful
  • Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity
  • Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm

Leadership Competencies:

  • Drives Vision and Purpose: Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to actions
  • Drives Engagement: Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
  • Balance Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders
  • Develops Talent: Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals
  • Business Insights: Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals

Education/Qualification Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in education preferred; instructional design or related field preferred
  • A minimum of 5 years proven experience in instructional design; experience designing blended learning solutions with equal expertise in designing instructor led, virtual and eLearning courses
  • Demonstrated knowledge of eLearning tools and software (Adobe Creative Cloud Apps: Premier, Animate, Audition, etc…, Adobe Captivate, Storyline 2 or 360)
  • Expertise with Microsoft Office required
  • Ability to work individually with subject matter experts to design and develop appropriate learning content with minimal supervision
  • Attention to detail in producing, writing and proofing all coursework materials to ensure consistency in form, format, and function
  • Experience using Learning Management Systems (Cornerstone, preferred but not required)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and strong customer service skills
  • Demonstrated exceptional effective and active listening skills
  • Professional, Confident, Enthusiastic and Detail Oriented
  • Demonstrated excellent administrative, interpersonal and forward-thinking organizational skills
  • Ability to coordinate and maintain follow-up on a number of projects simultaneously
  • Ability to prioritize changing workloads
  • Demonstrate initiative and be a self-starter
  • Ability to work independently, exercise good judgment and be resourceful
  • Outstanding troubleshooting and problem solving skills
  • Working knowledge of SCORM and Section 508 compliance
  • Some travel may be required


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    Mike Hanes
    ProVisionTech

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    Contract Sr .Net Opportunity in Dallas, TX

    Job Description Below:

    Integration Overview 

    Data is constantly evolving and changing. Our integration platform looks to help simplify the difficult task of storing, processing, delivering, retrying and dealing with the success & failure of data delivery.   Integrating data from multiple points and consolidating the work within an architecture that will leverage each new domain as a separate microservice. Working to unify all our applications and continue to integrate new data points, this centralized platform will provide the microservice chassis and services needed to deliver quickly and performantly. 

    Responsibilities and Duties 

    • Be a true team player, be kind, radically candid and be willing to help out 
    • Collaborate and communicate with other team members in active design and development 
    • Elegant development,producing clean, crisp, fault-tolerant, performant, easy to maintain, tested code.  
    • Embrace a Lean methodology and an agile mindset, reducing risk, waste, in short iterations, with incremental planning on small teams that are continuously learning enough to deliver self-documented solutions via CI\CD. 
    • Be accountable to commitments made to the team and leadership, setting and achieving milestones and goals 
    • Be responsible for successtaking ownership and pride in the active work, bringing in fresh ideas, investing in growing yourself, team members, product, and the company by collaboration and sharing. 
    • Learn and represent client needs, partaking in active discussions, understand their needs and producing effective technical design in accordance with the company architecture and platform. 
    • Safeguard the client, protecting their data and their business as a priority. 
    • Assist with technical guidance and direction, working with your lead \architect to share vision and deliver it 
    • Mentor developers and be a sounding board for application level discussions, taking ownership and escalating any items that need to be discussed with lead  
    • Take personal responsibility over your assigned deliverables, communicating blockers and time concerns   

    Required Qualifications 

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a combination of equivalent degree and/or experience 
    • 5+ years of professional software development 
    • 5+ years working with C# and the .NET platform 
    • 2+ years working in Systems Integration 

    Technology Stack 

    We need candidates that know the technologies below (listed in order of importance). If you know five that’s great. 

    • C# 
    • .NET Core \ .NET Standard 
    • Web API framework 
    • XML, Json 
    • SQL Server  
    • Azure Functions 
    • Azure Storage 
    • Azure Service Bus 

    Additional Skills 

    Having these skills is highly preferred. 

    • DevOps (CI/CD Pipelines) 
    • Azure Functions v2 with .Net Core 

    Our Development Environment 

    We use Git for source control, GitFlow as a branching strategy, Azure DevOps for CI\CD, Agile as a mindset and Scrum as the methodology that governs planning and delivery.  

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      Mike Hanes
      ProVisionTech

      Contract Sr QA Opportunity in Dallas, TX

      Senior Quality Assurance Analyst – Contractor

      Our client is a national provider of employee benefits, payroll, HR and employer services.  Working with a network of more than 20,000 Trusted Advisors, we enable small and medium sized businesses with easy access to affordable quality workforce solutions including employee benefits, payroll, compliance and HR Solutions.

      Overview

      As a member of the client team, Benefits Division, you will have the opportunity to help insurance brokers, and employers and their employees, by working on solutions that make the entire process easier, faster and more connected for brokers, small and medium sized businesses and their employees, giving them tools to stay competitive without adding to their day to day effort.

      Responsibilities and Duties

      ·        Be a true team player, be kind, radically candid and be willing to help out

      ·        Collaborate and communicate with teams from development, project management, and SMEs in active design, implementation and testing

      ·        Learn and represent client needs, partaking in active discussions, understand their needs and producing effective testing patterns that are complaint with company best practices and standards.

      ·        Safeguard the client, protecting their data and their business as a priority.

      ·        Embrace a Lean methodology and an agile mindset, reducing risk, waste, in short iterations, with incremental planning on small teams that are continuously learning enough to deliver self-documented solutions

      ·        Be accountable to commitments made to the team and leadership, setting and achieving milestones and goals

      ·        Be responsible for success, taking ownership and pride in the active work, bringing in fresh ideas, investing in growing yourself, team members, product, and the company by collaboration and sharing.

      ·        Create strategies and process for other QA team members to ensure methodological successful delivery that conform to up-to-date testing trends and our standard practices.

      ·        Ensure Product Quality by creating and validating manual and functional testing that considers business needs, acceptance criteria and provides a fluid experience for our end users.

      ·        Produce Elegant Tests by creating clear, concise detail-oriented test plans/ cases.

      Required Qualifications

      ·        BS or BA degree or equivalent experience.

      ·        5+ years of web-centric   QA technical experience.

      ·        3 + years working experience with release and project management systems

      ·        3+ years working   with mid-sized to large systems is highly preferred.

      ·        Working experience with web technologies (Html, CSS, browser DOM) ,  SQL , and restful APIs

      ·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a detail oriented, critical eye

      ·        Ability to creatively solution a problem, reviewing requirement documents and translate to test cases

      Additional Qualifications

      ·        Experience using scripted solutions (Selenium) or application platforms (Microsoft Test Manager)

      ·        Experience testing   3rd party integration and API endpoints; the seams of our application

      ·        Experience with Azure DevOps \VSTS \ TFS

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        Mike Hanes
        ProVisionTech

        Contract-to-hire Business Analyst Opportunity With Great Company in Dallas, TX

        We pay for referrals, so if this opportunity is not a good match for your skills or you are not available but know someone who is, please forward this link to them.

        Contract-to-hire Business Analyst Opportunity With Great Company in Dallas, TX

        The biggest things we are looking for are eCommerce experience where they have worked on a customer-facing website with a shopping cart (essential), retail experience (preferred), and both functional and technical work.  The salary range is $90-100k base after the contract period.

        SENIOR IT BUSINESS/TECHNICAL ANALYST

        We’re a global company of thinkers, designers, and doers. Our client partners with their clients to build a connection with their customers by creating brand experiences that are seamless, innovative, and immersive. From strategy, creative, and digital to logistics and event technology, our teams place the client at the center, helping them connect to people in meaningful and personal ways. What makes us unique is our collaborative culture, intuitive knowledge, global perspective, and personalized approach developed from our 90-year legacy as an industry leader. This company connects people to a universe of opportunities that create a spark, build understanding, and inspire action.

        SUMMARY
        Demonstrates depth and breadth of business analysis process, techniques and methodologies.  Contributes to application design by defining needs and recommending solutions that will maximize the value delivered by the system to stakeholders. Determines how the project they are assigned to impacts other projects or business areas.  Ensures project meets the strategic goals/initiatives of the organization.  Influences, persuades, and leads other team members and stakeholders to achieve project goals and objectives.

        Research, design, create, document, implement, maintain and support systems that support the company’s customer and internal user needs.
        Leads and facilitates interviews and cross-functional working sessions to elicit requirements with the Product Owner, Functional BA and other business stakeholders to elicit and clearly define requirements.
        Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying true needs.
        Converts business requirements into functional and software/technical requirements.
        Captures non-functional and other system requirements (e.g., supported browsers, security, system performance expectations, etc.).
        Produces deliverables as needed: (e.g., software requirements documents, use cases, use case diagrams, wireframes, workflow diagrams, process diagrams, and detailed user stories).
        Provides significant input to system specifications and design.
        Develops detailed knowledge/expertise in applications assigned.  Analyzes system integration impacts and define integration requirements.
        Collaborates with developers to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
        Attends demos and review completed sprint development for accuracy.
        Reviews detailed requirements with project manager/technical lead to ensure adherence to scope and level of effort estimations.
        Estimates requirements gathering level of effort, develops business analysis work plans, and ensures BA deliverables quality and timeliness.
        Coordinates with Quality Assurance (QA) and the development team to ensure requirements are understood.
        Participates in and/or coordinates required testing/validation of system fixes, which may include creating the actual test cases or reviewing test cases created by QA.
        Supports User Acceptance Testing.
        Serves as the key IT counterpart to the Product Owner or Functional BA jointly responsible for understanding, prioritizing, & defining continuous improvement requests.
        Performs problem determination and resolution as part of system production support.
        Acts as the business analyst team lead on larger projects and initiatives.
        Provides guidance and mentoring to less experienced team members.
        Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner; escalate and retain ownership of all open/unresolved issues.
        Performs other duties as assigned.

        REQUIREMENTS
        Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university.  Computer Science or business related degrees preferred.
        Five (5) to seven (7)  years working as a business analyst on application development projects
        Experience with waterfall and agile software development methodologies.
        Experience with more than one (1 ) business domain.
        Experience supporting both enhancement/support projects as well as new development projects
        One (1) to three (3) years of functional expertise/experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
        Must have strong PC skills and advanced working knowledge with Microsoft Office products, SharePoint and experience with requirements tracking software.

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           Mike Hanes

          mhanes@provisiontechgroup.com
          ProVisionTech

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          Contract DevOps Engineer Opportunity in Dallas, TX

          If this opportunity is not a good match for your skills or you are not available but know someone who is, please forward this link to them as we pay referral fees for anyone you refer that we place with a client.

          Contract DevOps Engineer Opportunity in Dallas, TX

          SUMMARY

          Our client is committed to being the leader in the brand experience category by designing and producing powerful integrated digital and live events that connect people in ways that are meaningful and measurable.

          This is a company built on integrity and a commitment to the well-being of our colleagues, our clients, the industry, and the environment. Nearly 90 years later, the client family still runs the company, along with more than 6,500 equally passionate employee-owners and 30,000 part-time workers. The family legacy shines through everything we do, from our creative inspiration right down to the sustainable carpet under your feet.

          3 must haves: AWS cloud or any cloud experience, leadership abilities, 10/10 comm skills

          Azure is NOT a must just as long as they have some type of cloud experience. Most of them will have AWS.

          • Kubernetes experience
          • Helm experience
          • RBAC experience
          • Azure Experience – Not just VSTS or pipeline experience but also in the infrastructure in Azure

          As a DevOps Engineer, you will be involved in all aspects of the project and development lifecycles and responsible for the successful delivery of new solutions that will be used by our employees and customers who produce events for some of the most well-known brands in the world. We’re looking for individuals that show they can do whatever it takes to make sure that our projects/programs are successfully deployed. The right person for this position will be able to demonstrate creative energy and passion for delivering complex projects. You’ll be expected to communicate well and help lead and direct other team members in our quest to be the premier provider of solutions to the event industry.

          Flexibility and adaptability are key. Some of the things we do have never been done before, so we need someone who can adapt both in thinking and learning new processes, applications and methods. You will occasionally be asked to travel to events and work with our Business Partners and Technology Team to help make sure our technology is deployed successfully.

          Design, implement, and support continuous integration and delivery pipeline.

          Automate all aspects of service delivery

          Script tasks relative to platforms support and service delivery.

          Define platform standards to facilitate automation efforts.

          Document pipeline and support applications as needed.

          Maintain deployment request and incident queue.

          Facilitate after hours deployment efforts as needed.

          Support development and QA teams in their deployment efforts as needed.

          Open change tickets as needed to facilitate release automation processes

          Become thoroughly familiar with all compliance and security requirements, adhering to all policy and standards, adapting to CI/CD platform as needed.

          Implement pipeline platforms that are redundant and backed up as needed.

          Communicate effectively and appropriately, deferring to management on communicating with external teams as needed.

          Attend departmental, project and general meetings and effectively represent current status as appropriate.

          Participate in company provided training and perform independent training and research as appropriate.

          Install system patches and application updates as directed.

          Achieve external certifications, memberships, and/or awards/recognition in area of specialization

          Implement data architectures that are in regulatory and legal compliance

          Plan and coordinate own work to meet commitments and quality expectations

          Perform other duties such as documentation of applications and standards, maintenance of ticketing queues, general assistance with projects, troubleshooting, or after hours FDLC support as assigned.

          Performs other duties as assigned.

          REQUIREMENTS

          Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience, with a High School Diploma or GED

          2-3 years or more years of experience in the related field in a large corporation or consulting environment; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

          2-3 years or more years working knowledge, production support, and configuration experience of relevant systems applications required.

          This is more of Sr requirements and this isn’t a Sr position: Ability to architect, design and support within Azure with a working knowledge of Azure Backup, Storage, Compute, Containers, Express Route and Networking and experience with IAAS and PAAS.

          Specialization may encompass one or more business application areas, and knowledge will include basic understanding of business and technical interfaces

          Demonstrated knowledge of multiple technology environments, and toolsets, and the associated infrastructure/operations

          Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and design within Azure is required. Ability to present ideas in user-friendly/non-technical language

          Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.

          Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within particular field.

          Must possess a collaborative/team oriented work approach

          Must have strong oral and written skills to effectively communicate ideas and processes

          Ability to be flexible within a fast-moving work environment and juggle multiple priorities

          If you are have this experience and are interested, please email me directly at mhanes@provisiontechgroup.com or please answer the questions below and attach your resume:

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            Direct-hire Recruiting Coordinator Opportunity in Richardson, TX

            If this opportunity is not a good match for your skills or you are not available but know someone who is, please forward this email to them as we pay referral fees for anyone you refer that we place with a client.

             

            Direct-hire Recruiting Coordinator Opportunity in Richardson, TX

            Responsibilities:

            • Provide an outstanding experience to every candidate, every time
            • Coordinate travel, interview schedules and candidate experience for roles based in our HQ
            • Be the primary contact for our toll-free candidate hotline, routing qualified candidates to the appropriate field recruiter
            • Post and manage requisitions using internal and external employment sites
            • Maintain, track and provide reporting on applicant tracking system data/candidate flow
            • Accurately enter and maintain data in our ATS and other systems
            • Provide additional recruiting and administrative support, as needed
            • Requirements**:
            • Recruiting: 1 year
            • Strong executive/professional presence
            • Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, growing environment
            • Outstanding attention to detail
            • The ability to build and maintain relationships across many levels
            • Solid understanding of MS Office applications [Excel, Word, PPT, Outlook]
            • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
            • Bachelor’s degree preferred
            • Additional Details**:
            • Report directly to Lead Talent Coordination. Travel by car and air should be expected for this role. This is not a work from home opportunity; our Talent Acquisition team is actively engaged in our business and regularly visits our locations and those of our competitors. Service King is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

             

            Service King’s Benefits Include:

            • Medical, Dental, Life Insurance & Vision Care
            • Paid Holidays, Vacation & Sick Days
            • Weekly Pay
            • Low cost uniforms for applicable positions
            • 401(k) at 50% employer matching up to 8% of compensation
            • Transfer opportunities between all existing markets

            If you are have this experience and are interested, please email me directly at mhanes@provisiontechgroup.comIf you have this experience, feel you are a fit for this position, and are interested, please email the answers the questions below:

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