by SherlockTalent
Jim McKelvey might be best known for co-founding Square, the mobile payment system, but his entrepreneurial spirit goes beyond inventing new technology. A 1987 graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, McKelvey is also a master glass artist and author, having written the world’s most widely read text on the subject, The Art of Fire.
McKelvey co-founded Square in 2009 with Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, to enable small businesses to run their storefronts on a mobile device. Square has since grown to more than 2500 employees and a $25 billion valuation. In 2014, the company expanded its scope into the food-delivery market by acquiring Caviar; those moves landed McKelvey on Inc. Magazine’s “15 Entrepreneurs to Watch.”
During the keynote, Jim will discuss founding successful companies in an array of industries. Each of his businesses is founded upon a simple idea. Referencing personal experiences and local challenges, McKelvey offers a fresh, Silicon Valley-approach to problem-solving.
McKelvey’s other endeavors include LaunchCode, a non-profit creating a pathway for people seeking careers in technology, Third Degree Glass Factory, one of the nation’s main centers for glassblowing arts, and Mira Digital Publishing, an early digital technology startup, where Jack Dorsey interned before launching his own tech career and founding Twitter.
In addition to teaching at his alma mater, McKelvey authored three textbooks. In 2017, McKelvey was appointed as an Independent Director of the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
by Alex Funkhouser
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Last Thursday saw the SFBJ Fastest Growing Tech company and CIO awards event. The remarkable thing about this event is the insight it provides into our local tech community. The top 20 fastest growing companies added well over $100 Million in revenue to their bottom lines for the previous 12 months. This bodes well for local hiring and job growth.
Watch this space for some terrific upcoming job opportunities.
Also of note was the award for Best CIO of a company over $50M – it went to past-president and current board member of the CIO Council of South Florida, Mr. Charles Grau, CIO UDT.
by SherlockTalent
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This is a full time, on-site position in our Fort Lauderdale, FL office and pays in the 110K salary range, plus 15% bonus. Up to 20% travel may be required.
The Java Developer will work with the business, technical teams, Architects and Engineers to design and implement scalable solutions for Supply Chain Systems. This position works with the operations team to deploy code to production and support after deployment.
This position reports directly to the VP of Supply Chain and Corporate Systems. This position works with Managers, Engineers, Architects and interacts with other cross-functional teams to implement and deliver projects and tools to meet business and end-user needs.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable solutions for Supply Chain Systems
- Design and implement Inventory, Shipping and delivery solutions
- Design and implement Micro services platform and work with QA team to automate it’s testing
- Guide, coach and collaborate with Software Developers as needed
- Work with and influence other teams through project completion
- Work with the Infrastructure team to estimate the hardware required and deploy the solutions to production
- Identify issues in logs and resolve them quickly to minimize the business impact
- Write, build and deploy scripts and perform code reviews
- Create Stored Procs, tables, views, and queries to optimize performance
- Create JUNIT test cases for code developed
- Able to create Dashboards using Graphite
- Able to work with Business to do feasibility study of new ideas and provide quick estimates
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or 8 years’ experience in a related field
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience at an e-commerce company
- Able to develop solutions using Java, J2EE, Webservices, and JBOSS
- 5+ years’ experience building and leading a high performing organization
- 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in Supply Chain Engineering.
- Must be familiar with Hadoop, Casandra
- Must have knowledge of Splunk and Dynatrace
- Possess outstanding communication, influencing, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated success working within cross-functional teams
- Have effective project management skills
- Open source technologies, public/private cloud technologies
- Knowledge of CICD is a plus
- Familiarity with Jenkins is plus
- Knowledge of eCommerce Platform is a plus
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by SherlockTalent
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The SheLeadsTech Conference will for the second time feature key women players, leaders, and achievers in information technology and security fields to come and share their experiences on how to navigate the rough and rugged road that leads to the top.
Be a part of this enriching conference!
The SheLeadsTech programs is an ISACA International initiative that seeks to address the significant under-representation of women in business technology leadership roles and the tech workforce. The program aims to engage women in technology and our allies to support and advocate for change, empower women as leaders, role models and mentors in their fields, and elevate the role of women in technology.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dina Kampouraki, Security Officer for IT Policy Unit European Data Protection Supervisor
Dina was born in the island of Crete in Greece. She graduated from Athens University in Economics and Business of Greece in 1996 with a diploma in Computer Science and in 1998 completed her Master’s degree in Information Systems with specialization in security. In 1998 she joined a mobile telecommunications company, PanaVox SA and worked on automated system processing and workflow analysis until she joined in 1999 the Hellenic Data Protection Authority as a Data Protection Auditor. Specialized in several areas in data protection, she participated in many national inspections in public and private sector. In 2000, she became an active member of the Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) and Appeals Committee of Europol, of the Joint Supervisory Authority of Schengen and of Joint Supervisory Authority of Customs Information System. Since 1999 she participated in many international inspections in the European Union. From 2006 to 2008 she worked for the Secretariat of Data Protection at the Council of the European Union as a data protection and IT security expert. Since April 2017, she works for the European Data Protection Supervisor
(EDPS) as a technology and Security Officer in the IT Policy Unit which aims at providing technology expertise for the EDPS supervisory and advisory functions.
by SherlockTalent
The South Florida Digital Festival is for anyone interested in Digital Marketing.
- We’ll be discussing Technology & Startups, Technology & Marketing in Education, and Content-Driven Search & Social Media.
- There will be 3 separate panels sharing, discussing and answering questions.
- All experience levels with Digital Marketing are welcome including none at all!
- We want to bring knowledge and share ideas & experiences on how Digital Marketing can be used effectively.
Panel 1: Content-Driven Search and Social Media
- Shlomi Ron – Visual Storytelling Institute
- Jen Yaeger – Plum Productions
- Melanie Mitchell – Chewy
- Andy Hill – City Furniture
Panel 2: Tech/Start-up
- Nicole Biscuiti – The Chestee
- Mark Christakis – MarkChris
- Niranjan Shintre – Aircharge
- Roshana Henderson – Web App
Panel 3: Education
- Sherrie Weldon – Lynn University
Agenda
- Sign-In with a goodie bag
- Step-and-Repeat
- Grab a snack
- 3 Panels: Content-Driven Search/Social Media, Tech/Start-Up, & Education
- Keynote Speaker
- Hors d’oeuvres & Mingle
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