Military-Civilian: Hot Jobs, Events, and Helpful Information for Veterans Seeking Civilian Careers

Monday, August 12, 2013

Front-End Engineer for San Francisco, CA

Front-End Engineer for San Francisco, CA
Field*:
Information Technology
Experience Required:
1-3 years
Education Required:
Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description:
AdRoll, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with offices in NY and Dublin, is a premier advertising technology startup that helps brands run highly targeted, data driven digital marketing campaigns. Recently named the fastest growing private advertising company in the nation by Inc. Magazine (#7 overall) and best place to work by SF Business Times, AdRoll has nearly 200 employees (and growing fast), over 7,000 customers, is increasing revenue at 400% per year and is backed by some of the savviest investors in the space, including Merus Capital, Accel Partners and Peter Thiel. We strongly believe in team chemistry and have a lot of fun building a world-class company. If you are passionate about growth and innovation, then come revolutionize the advertising technology space with us.
Team up with a colorful, but tight-knit engineering squad of a dozen. Code alongside our group which includes the youngest engineer ever at Microsoft (our CEO), a former World Champion of Street Fighter, the president of Python Italy, and more!
We run the retargeting platform with the largest customer base and swim in the complex, yet exciting new world of real-time advertising. We work with many great brands you've heard of (American Apparel, Tom's Shoes, Microsoft, Tivo, Hipmunk) and many more you haven't.

Job Responsibilities:
As a front-end engineer, you love building responsive, well-composed client side applications. You have a knack for putting yourself in the shoes of the user. You will spend your time between the client and the server, with the majority spent on the client. You know how to make things fast or feel snappy. You might be building out our application interfaces, updating the marketing website, and working on our API.
You like to dig into the newest in development tech. Our stack consists of a very healthy dose of Python (Pylons/Pyramid) as app server, modern Javascript libraries on the front-end (jQuery, Backbone.js, Underscore, D3, SASS, CSS3, HTML5), git for source control and Erlang, Redis and PostgreSQL on the backend.

Job Qualifications:
Object Oriented Javascript
jQuery
CSS3, SCSS (Sass)
HTML5
Clean & Organized Code
Knowledge or interest in learning Python
BS in computer science or related field or relevant work experience.
Has personal projects related to the web
Great attitude and good team player
Loves learning

Bonus Points:
Backbone.js
Underscore.js
CSS Spriting
Appreciate of Clean UI
Focus on good user experience (examples would be great)
Adobe Photoshop
Demonstrated skills in building easy to use products by yourself or where you were in charge
Good set of evaluation materials like an up-to-date portfolio or a github account
Humor

Please send resume via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

UI Developer for San Francisco, CA

UI Developer for San Francisco, CA
Field*:
Information Technology
Experience Required:
1-3 years
Education Required:
Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description:
AppDynamics is the leader in next generation solutions for managing modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center. Our customers include some of the largest web sites on the planet, who use our products to monitor and troubleshoot applications distributed across thousands of servers.
With the paradigm shifts to horizontally distributed applications, service oriented architectures, cloud hosting, and agile deployment it is more complex than ever to manage large-scale applications. The innovative AppDynamics technology greatly simplifies managing these modern application architectures. With over 500 high profile customers and year over year revenue growth above 300%, we are disrupting the multi-billion dollar APM (Application Performance Management) market.
Founded in 2008 and lead by proven innovators, AppDynamics has rock solid funding from top tier venture capital firms including: Greylock, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins and IVP.

Job Responsibilities:
Design, architect, and develop our user interface using the latest web and mobile technologies. Deliver innovations that make complex problems (massively distributed application analysis and management) easy for our customers to tackle. Make the impossible possible and the hard easy.

Job Qualifications:
Passion for creating amazing user experiences
Passion for software design and well-structured code.
Expert level OO design and programming skills.
Computer Science background (preferably, from a top tier school).
Experience building complex Object Oriented web applications in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS.
Experience with client side web technologies/frameworks (one or more of AngularJs, Knockout, Ember, Backbone, Jquery/JqueryUI, Closure, Sencha/ExtJs, YUI, Bootstrap, Dojo, mustache.js, require.js, common.js, TypeScript, Dart etc)
Motivated individuals that want to be part of a fast paced startup.

Bonus:
Experience with UI design (creating mockups and wireframes, working with visual designers, etc)
Experience with mobile UI development (iOS/Cocoa, Android,).
Experience with Java server side web frameworks (SpringMVC, Struts, Tapestry, Wiket, Closure, JSF)
Experience with the Java/J2EE and/or .NET stack.
Experience with Flex and Flash.
Proficiency with visual design tools (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, etc).

Please send resume via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

TSFR Applebee’s - Restaurant Managers in Michigan

Restaurant Managers in Michigan

Applebee’s, the largest casual dining chain in the world, currently has outstanding career opportunities for restaurant managers, support center/corporate positions and talented hourly team members. We continue to prosper and grow in a highly competitive marketplace by attracting energetic team members who know how to serve up the Applebee’s experience. Now we need you to bring your talents to the Neighborhood.

TSFR Applebee's is now accepting applications for experienced Restaurant Managers in Michigan.

Are you looking for a promising career in a fun, friendly and casual atmosphere?

Requirements Applebee's managers have a wide range of responsibilities managing a multi-million dollar business. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record in:
- Driving sales and achieving financial results
- Operational excellence
- Local restaurant marketing
- Selecting and training top talent to build high performing teams
- Leading a team to achieve goals and objective
- At least 2 years high volume restaurant management experience
- Must be capable of performing all functions and meeting standards for all hourly positions.

Applebee's team members enjoy competitive wages with great benefits, flexible scheduling as well as development and growth opportunities!

The Applebee's family is enriched by diverse cultures and offers a place in the neighborhood for everyone. Come and grow with us!

You may apply line,

http://applebeescareers.jobs/michigan/usa/jobs/ or please send resume to applebees@teamschostak.com.

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Seeking Sr. Software Engineer for San Francisco, CA

Seeking Sr. Software Engineer for San Francisco, CA
Field*:
Information Technology
Experience Required:
3-6 years
Education Required:
Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description:
AppDynamics is the leader in next generation solutions for managing modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center. Our customers include some of the largest web sites on the planet, who use our products to monitor and troubleshoot applications distributed across thousands of servers.
With the paradigm shifts to horizontally distributed applications, service oriented architectures, cloud hosting, and agile deployment it is more complex than ever to manage large-scale applications. The innovative AppDynamics technology greatly simplifies managing these modern application architectures. With over 500 high profile customers and year over year revenue growth above 300%, we are disrupting the multi-billion dollar APM (Application Performance Management) market.
Founded in 2008 and lead by proven innovators, AppDynamics has rock solid funding from top tier venture capital firms including: Greylock, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins and IVP.

Job Responsibilities:
Write complex multi-tiered multi-threaded applications in Java / J2EE that can be used to test software that manages application architectures running in cloud, virtual and physical environments.
Build and implement a multi-tier Java automation framework to integrate software applications using Web Services and XML.
Modify existing applications to simulate various implementations of SOA, RMI, Messaging, caching and Frameworks like Spring, Struts, Servlets, and EJB.
Plan, setup and maintain complex multi-tiered test environments and automated setup processes.
Develop and run specialized tests to observe product scalability, fault tolerance, stability and quality.
Review Solution Specifications detailing product functionality and develop, run test plans for functional and system testing.
Continually increase the complexity and test coverage of System, Functional and Stress tests.

Job Qualifications:
Must have legal right to work permanently in the U.S.
BS/BA + 5 yrs. exp., OR
MSCS or equiv. + 3 yrs. exp. Exp.
Must include 3 yrs. Java software development incl. performance engineering & testing.

Please send resume via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

Seeking QE Manager(s) - (.Net & Java) for San Francisco, CA

QE Manager(s) - (.Net & Java) for San Francisco, CA
Field*: Information Technology

Job Description:
We are looking for someone to be 'hands -on' - meaning that you will need to be close to the code and comfortable with coding. You have DEV background and possibly moved in to quality, with about 2-3 years in some form of 'people management'

Job Responsibilities:
Lead the team in Quality -

Job Qualifications:
Experience with quality in the computer SW industry, CS education is a plus
NET and/or Java is required
People Management skill

Please send resume via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

Senior Performance Engineer for San Francisco, CA

Senior Performance Engineer for San Francisco, CA
Field*:
Information Technology
Experience Required:
6-10 years
Education Required:
Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description:
Our customers depend on AppDynamics technology to ensure that their customers have a top quality experience, so you can imagine how serious we are about the quality of our software. We are seeking a performance engineer to fine tune our server platform. If you love knowing how things work under the hood, if you have a passion for performance and scalable web application platforms, and you love to pinpoint the problem areas in the code, we are interested in talking to you.
Our goal at AppDynamics is to make it simple to manage modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center. Our customers include some of the largest web sites on the planet, who use our products to monitor and troubleshoot applications distributed across thousands of servers, each of which is running our Agents.
As a performance engineer for server platform, you will be responsible for server platform performance test strategy, planning and execution. Also you will be writing simulators to meet real-time workload scenarios.

Job Responsibilities:
Partner with server platform development and operations teams to improve performance across all layers of server platform.
Write custom load generation tools and measure server performance using our own APM products.
Manage server platform’s performance lab and make sure that performance tests are executed for all features.
Analyze performance metrics and suggest recommendations to engineering team.

Job Qualifications:
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
6+ years of experience in distributed web applications performance turning.
Significant experience in JVM tuning.
Significant experience in SQL performance tuning.
Passion to identify system bottlenecks and limitations in distributed web applications.
Working knowledge of NoSQL databases.
Working knowledge of virtualization technologies like Amazon EC2, Vmware.
Working knowledge of java and shell scripting.
Should be able to perform well under tight delivery schedules.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Please send resume via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

Sr. Data Platform Engineer for San Francisco, CA

Sr. Data Platform Engineer for San Francisco, CA
Field*:
Information Technology
Experience Required:
3-6 years
Education Required:
Bachelor’s Degree

Job Description:
At AppDynamics, our goal is to make it simple to manage modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center. Our customers run some of the largest web sites on the planet, and use our products to monitor and troubleshoot applications distributed across thousands of servers. To handle the massive data produced by these applications, we are building a highly scalable data system capable of collecting, processing, storing, querying, and analyzing vast amounts of time series and semi-structured data in real time. We seek a world class data systems architect to lead the development of this cutting edge system.
If you have a passion for architecting a real-time data system, building it out, and then tuning and productizing it to make it operationally rock solid, we want to talk to you!

Job Responsibilities:
In this role you will be responsible for leading the development of the AppDynamics data platform. You will provide architectural oversight as well as hands-on development leadership. You will ensure that the data platform is massively scalable for both write-heavy and read-heavy workloads, while meeting key real-time goals. You will work with our operations team to ensure that the platform performs well in practice. You will also collaborate closely with other technical teams to deliver products that leverage the data platform.

Job Qualifications:
Expert at designing and building large-scale real-time distributed data processing and analysis systems
Substantial hands-on experience with big data frameworks and data stores such as Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, HBase, HDFS
Demonstrated experience productizing complex data systems (including tuning, administration, security, deployment, and transition to operations)
Expert knowledge of Java, C++, multi-threaded development
Rock solid engineering skills
Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. EC2, S3, ELB, EMR) and their use in practice
Experience with analytical tools such as Mahout is a plus

Please send resume via email @ lucy@military-civilian.com.

Software Engineer (Server-side) for San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer (Server-side) for San Francisco, CA
Field*:
Information Technology
Experience Required:
3-6 years
Education Required:
Master’s Degree

Job Description:
AppDynamics is the leader in next generation solutions for managing modern, distributed, and extremely complex applications residing in both the cloud and the data center. Our customers include some of the largest web sites on the planet, who use our products to monitor and troubleshoot applications distributed across thousands of servers.
With the paradigm shifts to horizontally distributed applications, service oriented architectures, cloud hosting, and agile deployment it is more complex than ever to manage large-scale applications. The innovative AppDynamics technology greatly simplifies managing these modern application architectures. With over 500 high profile customers and year over year revenue growth above 300%, we are disrupting the multi-billion dollar APM (Application Performance Management) market.
Founded in 2008 and lead by proven innovators, AppDynamics has rock solid funding from top tier venture capital firms including: Greylock, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins and IVP.

Job Responsibilities:
Design and develop scalable software written in Java and MySQL for backend component of software that manages application architectures.
Support component by building unit tests and providing bug fixes for existing features.
Optimize performance of the component to make sure it scales properly (up to 5000 agents performing simultaneous data transfer).
Ensure that software changes work properly in integrated environment by testing end to end.
Write software in Java using technologies like Servlets, EJB and JPA.
Implement REST services (handling XML and JSON payload) to read and manipulate backend data from external clients.
Prepare scripts for building product using Ant.

Job Qualifications:
Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
MSCS or equiv. + 4 yrs. experience, OR BS/BA + 6 yrs. exp.
Exp. must include 3 yrs. software development experience with Java/J2EE, MySQL, and XML.

Please send resume via email at: lucy@military-civilian.com.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

RTTEMPS/RNTEMPS - Healthcare Recruiter/Account Manager

RTTEMPS/RNTEMPS – Healthcare Recruiter/Account Manager for Philadelphia area, PA

Salary will be discussed at interview doe and is paid weekly.

National Staffing Company has immediate opportunities for experienced Healthcare Recruiters. You must have a complete understanding of the healthcare industry, and recruiting within that industry.

Applicants should have strong computer skills, knowledge of healthcare management and vendor management systems used in today’s industry. Knowledge of all compliance requirements in placing/submitting candidates in this market is required.

Heavy phone and communication skills are a must.

Interested candidates please send resume to: denise@rttemps.com.

Comprehensive Health Services International, Inc. - Rig/Clinic Paramedic, Must be Fluent in Korean

Comprehensive Health Services International, Inc., a subsidiary of CHS, provides a spectrum of medical support services both nationally and internationally.
CHS International’s services include onsite health units, medical exams programs, behavioral health and mobile, global medical support teams that currently serve as a vital resource to U.S. Department of Defense and Department of State initiatives worldwide.

Rig/Clinic Paramedic, Must be Fluent in Korean

Tracking Code:
2043-120
Job Description:
Rig/Clinic Paramedic
Job Duties:
Provide medical support in semi-permissive environment. The Rig/Clinic Paramedic will work under the supervision of a Medical Director. You will work in a wide variety of missions that may include, but not limited to support for civilian contractors, and coordinate work with foreign military, and medical evacuations. The Rig/Field Medic will perform as an integral team member and take part in all duties assigned. Provide emergent and non-emergent medical support such as treatment of minor acute illnesses in field and clinical conditions to include but not limited to fluid resuscitation, hemorrhage control, hemostatic agents, airway support and primary acute clinic care. Majority of patient population is Korean. Paramedic must be fluent in Korean.

This is a notional position contingent upon contract award.
The responsibilities of Paramedic will include but are not limited to the following:
•             Providing health and medical care to site workers on a 24-hour basis, 365 days of the year
•             Conducting administrative duties to include logistics coordination, telephone communication, clerical duties, and various computer tasks.
•             Communicating clearly at all times.
•             Completing all patient documentation and forms as required by the company.
•             Conducting regular inventory and equipment testing to insure all equipment is present, clean, and in proper working order
•             Documenting and reporting all needed supplies and repairs of medical equipment for proper job performance.
•             Completing all required company reports and logs.
•             Having the ability to think and react quickly and appropriately in stressful situations.
•             Provide advice, support and training
•             Promotion of healthy lifestyle initiatives including fitness, alcohol awareness
•             Hygiene inspection
•             Supporting health and safety initiatives

Required Skills
Requirements:
•             Equivalent non-U.S/Canadian Paramedic education, certification, diplomas and experience
•             Approved US Paramedic Program or equivalent
•             US State Paramedic License or equivalent
•             Current Medical Registration
•             Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and
•             Basic Life Support (BLS)/Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
•          Trauma Management Certification
•             Experience training and working with multi-national personnel.
•             Minimum of 5 years’ experience in operational and medical field,.
•             Previous international experience is preferred but not mandatory
•             Experience of working in the military or on expeditions may be beneficial
•             Good levels of health and fitness
•             Computer literate
•             Must be Fluent in Korean.

Additional Requirements:
•             Fluent in both Korean and English is required as majority of patient population is Korean.
•             Successfully pass medical, physical fitness, dental and psychological screening.
•             Successfully clear background check including a criminal background screening with fingerprints, financial and educational checks.
•             Unrestricted Driver’s License from country of origin.
•             Current Unrestricted Passport from country of origin.
•             Excellent communications skills.
•             Ability to wear body armor 60+ Lbs for extended periods.

Required Experience
Working Conditions:
•             Deployment to semi-permissive areas.
•             Seven 12hr shift minimum per week with periods of longer shifts likely, as required by sponsor.
•             24/7 availability.
•             Two "sick calls" will be performed daily.
•             Meals and Housing provided while deployed

Job Location:
Al Qaim, Iraq

Position Type:
Full-Time/Regular

Employment Type:
Full time Regular

Interested candidates please apply online at:
https://chsmedical-hr.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.welcome&category_id=2725&company_id=16120&version=1&startflag=1&parent=International&levelid1=2725

Congratulations to the latest graduates of The Sabalauski Air Assault School on U.S. Army Fort Campbell, Ky. As The U.S. Army's only air assault division, it is essential that our Soldiers are highly trained, disciplined, and fit - as well as qualified to perform air assault operations.

Friday, August 9, 2013

25th Anniversary, CA Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Save the Date

Independent Seniors Citizen Disabled Veterans Needed

Welcome Home Vets Bike Run Sat. Aug. 24th

Placer County Veterans Stand Down - September 17-19, 2013 - Roseville, CA

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

U.S. Air Force's 66th Birthday Fundraiser - Septemeber 14, 2013

Support Request for Eureka, CA Outreach Event August 23, 2013 - Updated Event Flyer

Upcoming Caregiver Telephone Education Groups August through December

VA National Caregiver Support Line

These telephone education trainings, conducted by the VA National Caregiver Support Line, are open to Family Caregivers of Veterans of all eras. Please forward this information to all who might find it valuable. If people would like to participate, they will need to contact their local VA Caregiver Support Coordinator.

Safe Haven: Building on Family Strength

A telephone educational group focused on strategies to enhance resilience and restore balance