Ciklum Speakers Corner about Mobile Project Management 19 of October

Ciklum welcomes lead mobile developers and mobile project managers for a Ciklum Speakers Corner 19 of October!

Speakers Corner is one of the Ciklum events format organized for those, who have things to discuss! This time we will discuss the issues of Mobile Project Management.

Starring:
1. Ben van der Veer, Head of Operations in aFrogLeap (NL) – “Project Management of multilocation projects with a twist of mobile”.
Ben has over 4 years experience in IT Project Management, responsible for the project delivery in aFrogLeap. He has Bachelor in Sports Management and Master in psychology, focused his experience mostly in marketing topics like crowd psychology, consumer behavior and influence decisions. He will share his Mobile Project Management experience.
About aFrogleap BV
aFrogleap | Concepts & Development for mobile web and applications was founded as a specialist label within RapidSugar BV | Full service online marketing agency over 2 years ago. Currently aFrogleap is privately owned and has been successfully building out to our current size of 15 people.
aFrogleap is a full service mobile agency based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Some of our clients are; CampingWijzer, Marktplaats (part of Ebay), Microsoft, Staples, SNS Reaal, Waternet and our national government.
All concepts aFrogleap develops make use of the all important user context. The contexts of mobile users differ tremendously, and when possible, have to be utilized in the consumers favor. Smart solutions based on location, research and experience make our clients leap frog.

2. Vladimir Gorshunov, Client Services Consultant in Ciklum (BY) – “Scrum and Kanban in Mobile Development”.
Vladimir Gorshunov has more than 6 years in Java development focused lately mostly in mobile development project management; Scrum master; Project Management trainer. He will share some ideas in setting up the processes in mobile development teams.

We start at 7PM in Ciklum Minsk office. Snacks and coffee are included! Participation is free, number of sits are limited.

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Registration is closed.

Ciklum invites Program Manager/Consultant to join its successful team

Ciklum is looking for a Mobile Program Manager/Consultant for CSC department in Minsk Office.

CSC department provides access to a wide variety of IT and business consultants, including on-demand testing and QA services.

Role:
Teams start-up, clients' and teams' methodological supportAccumulating and evangelizing best practices (tools/processes)
Ad-hoc technical solutions identification, technical issues mitigation
On demand consulting/coaching/training
Technical assessment of Project Managers and units maturity during Development Interviews.

The successful candidate should meet the following requirements:

5+ years op Project Management experience (successful track record of project deliveries)
Strong technical background (preferably back-end oriented)
Good understanding of full range of SDLC
Mastery of the SCRUM/XP methodology

Personal:
Proactive, self-starter, able to identify tasks and opportunitiesOutgoing, sales oriented, with great interpersonal skillsFluent in English

Additional advantage will be:
Extensive knowledge in QA area
Good business understanding (market place, time-to-market, etc)
Compliance with business excellence
Experience in mobile development
Starting salary - fixed, in three month going down with the fixed part 25% and using a scheme: 30% on margin from consulting hour sales as a bonus.

Evaluating the person while the work, we’ll look at the following KPIs:
Client engagement expansion with Ciklum (how many new vacancies are opened in existing client teams after the TC involvement)
Number of times when project managers proactively came to seek help and assistance from the TC
Number of positive customer references collected
Number of consaltancy projects initiated

Ciklum offers:
Good working conditions;
Career and professional growth;
Various technical seminars;
Possibilities to work in a big and successful company;
Long-term full time employment

To learn more about vacancy please ask Olga.
e-mail: olku@ciklum net
Skype: ol.kuznetsova

Project manager, mobile developers and QA are welcome to start up new team in Ciklum.

UPD: Vacancy closed

On behalf of ChartsNow Ciklum is starting up new team.
We have opened positions for:

Development Manager
Team Lead
Core Developer
Mobile Platforms Developers
Quality Assurance Specialist

ChartsNow is an innovative, new, mobile music subscription service, which turns any mobile phone into a music player that works instantly, like an mp3 player, without requiring permanent network access.

The service is complemented with updated entertainment news editorial and has a social networking function, through Facebook, and Twitter, which allows users to engage and share with peers. ChartsNow allows users to buy favourite tracks, and can also act as an e-commerce platform to sell concert tickets or merchandise.
ChartsNow is designed to be platform agnostic and can run on all music enabled handsets including iPhones, Android, Windows, Symbian and Java operating systems.

Development Manager
Main requirements:

• Education: university diploma in IT
• 5+ year experience as IT Project Manager, running and delivering mobile and web projects
• Strong knowledge of software development cycle, methodologies and practices
• Experience of managing the team up to 15 members
• Fluent English spoken and written and previous international experience
• Technical background. At least 3-4 years working as developer
• Mobile development skills: iPhone, Android, Blackberry experience would also be a plus

• Strong mature personality

Main responsibilities:

• Project management - project planning, task assignment, monitoring and control, requirements management)
• Communication with customer - participation in regular and other necessary project meetings with customer, project status reporting
• Team management - team building, recruiting, team motivation and assessment

Team Lead
Main requirements:

• Education: university diploma in IT
• 2+ year of Team Lead experience on web projects
• Experience with Agile & Scrum is required
• Experience with JIRA
• Technical skills: PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache.
• Frontend technologies: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, XML/XSL, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
• Mobile experience would be a plus
• English skills would be a plus

Main responsibilities:

• Management of the team of 5
• Overall application development, quality and deliverables

Core Developer
Main requirements:

• Education: university diploma in IT
• 2+ year development experience
• Technical skills: PHP, MySQL, Linux, Apache.
• Frontend technologies: HTML, XHTML, DHTML, XML/XSL, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax
• Experience with Agile & Scrum would be a plus
• Mobile experience would be a plus
• English skills would be a plus

Main responsibilities:

• Overall application development and quality

Mobile Platforms Developer
Main requirements:

• Education: university diploma in IT
• 2+ year development experience
• Mobile development experience: Iphone, Android, Blackberry, Java/Symbian
• Passion for mobile applications in general
• Experience with Agile & Scrum would be a plus
• English skills would be a plus

Main responsibilities:

• Developing application on corresponding platform

Quality Assurance Specialist
Main requirements:

• Education: university diploma in IT
• 1+ year testing experience
• Experience of mobile application testing required
• Experience with Agile & Scrum would be a plus
• Strong English skills both written and spoken

Main responsibilities:

• Testing of mobile applications
• Test planning, design and development
• Customer email support to be included in the future

We offer:

• Long-term full time employment
• Business trips
• Cool environment and comfort teamwork atmosphere

Please send you CV and ask for more details from Olga Kuznetsova:
Email: olku@ciklum.net
Skype: ol.kuznetsova