Sunday, March 23, 2008

A Simple Approach to Entertaining

Carmen Parmeter wanted to do something different this year for her birthday -- so she called her granddaughter. The 83 year old wanted to throw a party for her friends, but needed some inspiration.

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What is the Georgian Bay Unesco Biosphere Reserve?

Canada is well know for it's for it's vast area of wilderness, national parks and wildlife resrerves

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(IT) TEAM LEADER IT Support


Rate: 40k-50k   Location: London   

Team Leader IT Support Location: London Salary: £40K - £50K A Team Leader is required to work in IT Support on client site for an IT Services Company. The Specialist Onsite Team deal with the followings: - software & hardware PC/laptop support - computer room management - windows servers - Blackberry/BES - backups - customer service printers, scanners, PC peripherals - PC application support - reporting, etc The Team Leader's role will be: - To lead and motivate the Specialist Onsite Team to deliver excellent service at a price that is acceptable for the service delivered -To run, manage and develop the team, its services and its perception in the marketplace both internally and externally -To lead the provision of Service Management for key external customers who receive desktop support services -To run the P&L for the team and achieve cost reduction and increased revenue where opportunity exists You will need to have the following skills: - PC Hardware and software fault finding - 5 years+ - Demonstrable success in Team leadership. Examples include cost reduction, service improvement, increased customer satisfaction, team/service line growth, etc - Microsoft Windows, Active Directory and Networking- 3 years+ - Working Knowledge of MS Office - 3 years+ - Excellent Presentation skills, both written and oral - Documentation skills both Technical and process based -Excellent interpersonal skills - able to work confidently with senior directors - ITIL foundation or demonstrable
    Rate:40k-50kType:PermanentLocation:LondonCountry:UKContact:Julie TailhanAdvertiser:Xchanging - CityEmail:Julie.Tailhan.831F2.82628@mail.jobserve.comStart Date:ASAPReference:JSJT/XUK/G214

Saturday, March 22, 2008

(IT) Release Engineer


Location: City Of London   

A leading asset management organisation is seeking a Release Engineer to work on a contract basis in their City of London office. The ideal candidate for this job will be someone with extensive experience in software version control, build methodology, and system integration. Besides standardizing and refining the build process, the successful candidate will use his creativity and programming skill to automate the release process. A secondary responsibility is to support several critical production applications, so we are looking for candidates with excellent debugging skills. Agile Development and/or IT infrastructure experience are major pluses. Key skills/experience required: 5+ years experience in build & deployment on full life-cycle development projects in a Unix or Windows Production environment. Preferred: 2+ years of experience supporting Calypso. 3+ years release management for a Java application. Production experience with Ant, CruiseControl. Unix Shell Scripting (Perl, Python experience a plus). Source Control (eg, SVN, CVS). Domain knowledge in investments and portfolio management is beneficial. Please note your CV will not be submitted for this or any other role without your prior approval. SQ Computer Personnel Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business.
    Type:ContractLocation:City Of LondonCountry:UKContact:Joanne GalbraithAdvertiser:SQ Computer PersonnelEmail:Joanne.Galbraith.662B7.6E38D@mail.jobserve.comStart Date:ASAPReference:JS/DW/2010