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Integrate people and technology to capture the full benefits of eco-smart technology in your culture. Solve "It'll never work here" syndrome through our collaborative project methdology.
Make more money celebrating your responsible company's stories and values with integrated publicity campaigns.
Empower your employees to enhance their work potential through effective online collaboration technologies and personal facilitation techniques.
Add senior professionals to your technology staff who are skilled in the human side of technology.
Here's the latest good news at Advantive:
Senior Software Engineer – a great job in Socially Relevant Software.
By Stanley Florek | October 8, 2008
Posted on behalf of a great colleague:
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Web Development
Front Seat (www.frontseat.org) is a two-year-old software company created to exploit the power of technology to positively impact civic life. Front Seat is a rare opportunity to work with a world-class software team where social benefit is the top priority. We’re looking for a seasoned backend engineer to compliment our UI expertise and help us dream up the next wave of civic innovation driven by software.
Our flagship project is Walk Score (www.walkscore.com), a site that promotes walkable neighborhoods by providing a walkability score for any address. Walk Score created a tsunami of media coverage (ABC, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and more than 250 other newspaper articles, plus 50+ TV segments and broad radio and online coverage) and users have scored over 5 million addresses on the site. Other projects include CountMore.org (www.countmore.org), a site that helps students decide whether to vote in their school state or home state, Kathy’s Climate Kit (www.climatekit.org) , a global warming gift box that we’ve spun off as a separate consumer products company, The Predatory Lending Assocation (www.predatoryass.com), an experimental political satire lampooning payday lenders, and Better Bills (www.betterbills.org), which promotes energy conservation through better bill design.
Our technology stack includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Python, PostGIS, Map Server, etc.
About You:
- You have 5+ years of world-class backend web development experience
- You’re fluent in relational databases
- You’re familiar with Python, shell scripts, and Linux systems administration
- You have experience building APIs and platforms
- You have a Computer Science or related degree
- You’re interested in a range of software technologies and social issues
Benefits include: competitive salary, health care, dental and vision, retirement plan, and 3 weeks paid time off. Most of all, the opportunity to create software that revitalizes our cities, connects our communities, and helps our democracy.
We have a fantastic, light-filled office located just off the Burke-Gilman trail in Seattle. We also have the coolest conference table ever, a deck for BBQs, dual LCD monitors, an organic Korean restaurant right downstairs—and a Walk Score of 83.
Email your resume to jobs@frontseat.org or visit www.frontseat.org/jobs/
Topics: Jobs @ Advantive, Technology |
Advantive Tracks Carbon Emissions with World Resources Institute
By Stanley Florek | September 17, 2008
(Washington DC) World Resources Institute is one of America’s leading environmental think tanks. WRI partnered with Advantive to improve the usability of their complex and lengthy Mobile Emissions Toolkit. This Excel package is the global “gold standard” by which organizations to quantify and track their global carbon emissions from vehicle and transportation. Advantive recommended a ton of user experience improvements to the tool which is in its 3rd iteration. Our work is receiving rave reviews from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol design team at WRI. It’s always fun to get comments like this one, which our project lead at WRI shared: “The team universally welcomed the changes you made and were extremely impressed by and happy with them.” Nice work Advantive!
Topics: Advantive News, Sustainability, Technology |
Advantive Powers Up TriQuint Semiconductor’s Web Marketing
By Stanley Florek | July 7, 2008
(Portland) Advantive recently launched a website re-branding initiative for TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) a top maker of integrated circuits for radio communications. TriQuint’s equipment powers the radio frequency receivers and generators in millions of mobile phones, GPS handsets, WiMax receivers, satellites, and even NASA’s Mars Rover. Advantive’s team provided TriQuint with expertise in market positioning, designed a new visual identity optimized for the web but integrated with offline campaigns, generated 100’s of usability enhancements that allow users to find product information within 3 clicks or less, and did search engine optimization of top site content to organically drive more traffic to the site. Advantive’s executive sponsor observed that Advantive has the “best project management of any vendor we’ve ever worked with.”
Topics: Advantive News, Marketing |
Advantive Optimizes Evans Glass
By Marc Pollard | May 29, 2008
(Seattle) Evans Glass, Inc. partnered with Advantive to implement SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for their website at http://www.evansglass.com/. Evans Glass makes and sells one of the highest energy-efficient window models available for sale in the US.
Advantive took several key steps to optimize Evans Glass for search results with a long-term ongoing SEO strategy in mind. Here are the highlight tactics for Evans Glass SEO strategy:
1. Update the site content and images to repesent current products and services. http://www.evansglass.com/
2. Add the appropriate tagging of content, images, headers, etc for optimal search engine awareness throughout the site.
3. Upate the content for optimization of key word density.
4. Develop a customer testimonial and career site with a new URL- http://www.evans-glass.com/.
5. Develop a Blog site for Evans Glass marketing experts to become industry experts. http://www.evansglass-blog.com/
6. Create sites across the domain such as MySpace, YouTube, and profiles on LinkedIn.
7. Develop an interlinking strategy.
8. Run Industry Press Releases.
9. Post relevant links across thousands of directories.
10. Provide monthly SEO site updates, content, and support to move up Evans Glass services and products to the top of the search engines, and the scam posting companies several pages deep.
In summary, it pays not to take shortcuts with buying your way into better search engine listings. SEO is a mature online marketing practice, and by following the industry’s best SEO practices, as well as a lot of hard work, the payoffs are more visitors to you site and better search engine positing listings. In the end, more customers will come to your site seeking advice and expertise that will create legitimate revenue for your company long-term. The major search engines are domain experts and if you attempt to spam them through quick fixes, you may be banned from being listed for a long time.
Look for future updates on the results of Evans Glass’ SEO program.
Topics: Advantive News |
Advantive builds brand equity for Bainbridge Graduate Institute
By Stanley Florek | March 4, 2008
(Seattle) Advantive has begun work on a new website to tell the story of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, a 6 year old business school on Bainbridge Island, WA that provides values-driven capitalists the tools they need to manage businesses with social and environmental missions. The BGI website is migrating to a custom content management system. Advantive is managing the development of the website from a creative, messaging, and technical standpoint.
Topics: Advantive News, Sustainability |
3 Jobs: VP Engineering, Data Architect, Oracle Developer
By Stanley Florek | November 29, 2007
(Redmond) Advantive has 3 position openings with 2 of our clients on the Eastside – Bellevue and Redmond respectively. Please take a quick look and see if you know someone who wants these jobs:
1. VP of Engineering – Staff and build your dream team for an online media startup, and keep your hands and mind busy with software design and coding in all application layers. You will be the owner and lead architect for the technology platform this company will use to build and scale its service nationally.
2. Data Architect – Back-end software design architect, data modeler, database developer for an online media startup. The choice of database technology will be determined with your guidance. The road is wide open ahead of you. Work with the VP of Engineering to build a foundation that delivers functionality wins quickly and scales exponentially.
3. Senior Oracle Developer – Work on complex Oracle PL/SQL applications for the utility industry at an established multinational firm. 10+ years Oracle platform development experience is the profile of current team members.
Send us a resume at careers@advantivecorp.com to apply for one of these positions.
Topics: Jobs @ Advantive |
Advantive Corp Launches Advantive Federal (SDVO)
By Marc Pollard | November 28, 2007
(Washington DC) Advantive has launched affiliate company Advantive Federal, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned business (SDVO). The Managing Partner of Advantive Federal is Air National Guard veteran Don Phillips with 51% ownership. Advantive Corp owns the other 49% of Advantive Federal. Don and Advantive Founding Partners Marc Pollard and Stanley Florek will be the managing partners of Advantive Federal.
Since Advantive Federal is a SDVO, federal contracts awarded to it can be procurred as set-asides and do not require a government contracting schedule. The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Veterans Business Development as implemented Section 308 of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-183) establishes a procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by Service-Disabled Veterans.
A Contracting Officer (CO) may set aside acquisitions for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned (SDVO) businesses. A CO may award a sole source contract to an SDVO SBC if the CO determines that none of the SDVO SBC set-aside exemptions or provisions apply and the anticipated award price of the contract, including options, will not exceed:
1. $5.0M for manufacturing requirements.
2. $3.0M for all other requirements.
3. The SDVOB is a responsible contractor able to perform the contract.
4. Award can be made at a fair and reasonable price.
To learn more about doing business with Advantive Federal, please contact Don Phillips at 703.850.5908 or at donp@advantivecorp.com
Topics: Advantive News |
Advantive Job: Senior Oracle Developer
By Stanley Florek | October 30, 2007
(Seattle) Advantive is recruiting for a Senior Oracle Developer to join a development team with our client on the eastside. Work involves playing a hands-on design and development role in one or more high-powered development teams creating new systems and adding new features to existing systems. This position is PL/SQL development-centric, so we’re looking for software engineers who are experts in Oracle database development.
Skills Needed:
- 10+ years Oracle development experience is the profile of previous hires.
- PL/SQL programming is the most needed skill.
Work Environment:
- The environment is filled with complex applications – there is lots of intellectual challenge inherent to the work.
- This will be a 3 month minimum contract or contract-to-hire.
- The client wants work done onsite at their office on the eastside.
- There is no travel for this job.
- This is a mostly 9-5 type of job, with some crunch time requirements around releases.
- Company size is 50,000+ internationally, about 100 locally.
- Advancement path would be working on different projects at client or rotating onto other Advantive clients.
Terms:
- Onsite, eastside office location.
- Pay is highly competitive.
- Contract or contract to hire.
Are you interested in this position? Please send your resume to careers@advantivecorp.com for immediate consideration. We look forward to hearing from you.
Topics: Jobs @ Advantive, Advantive News |
Advantive Launches Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Portal to “Green” Public and Private Fleets
By Marc Pollard | October 18, 2007
(Seattle) The Puget Sound Green Air Agency hired Advantive to build a web portal to support their joint project with the Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition to reduce emissions by both public and private fleet organizations. The Green Fleets Guide helps fleet managers and executive decision makers understand the emissions produced by fleet operations and identify effective ways to reduce them.
Advantive provided the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency with end-to-end development on a complex environmental footprint calculator and educational website. The application is built on Open Source technologies including Python and Plone, which is Content Management System built on the open source application server Zope. See the site in action at www.psgreenfleets.org.
Topics: Advantive News, Sustainability |
Advantive Launches SharePoint Portal Server 2007 for Tribal IT Firm
By Marc Pollard | September 10, 2007
(Seattle) Advantive developed an online collaboration tool for a leading Tribal IT firm POWTEC. POWTEC’s goal was to boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities online.
Advantive has been working with SharePoint and Oracle Portal for the past five years. We and our clients have found immediate benefits in initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. POWTEC’s IT infrastructure called for SharePoint Portal Server 2007 based on their business requirements, licensing structure and the fact they are using Active Directory for single sign-on. Now their entire organization can collaborate on business development activities, tasks, projects, human resources, finance, operations, etc by accessing a secure online website anytime anywhere. Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provides you with a simple, consistent experience. Advantive would be happy to demonstrate the collaboration tools we have produced and learn together how these solutions would help your organization become more productive. Average costs range from $5,000 to $15,000 for development, depending on size of organization and current licensing relationships. We can do this in-person or online. To schedule a demo, please contact Marc Pollard at 206.595.0202.
Topics: Advantive News, Collaboration |
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