School of Computing and Informatics

Industry Involvement

SCI Job FairSCI creates innovative programs that engage and connect our future graduates with industry partners.

Our signature career event is the SCI Job Fair, where employers get a chance to meet top undergraduate and graduate students looking for job and internship opportunities. Between 200-300 students have attended our job fairs in the past. Our next SCI Job Fair is February 20, 2009.

There are many ways to get involved with our students, including:

  • Hosting an information session.
  • Hosting a technical talk, a “mini-class” on a hot trend, software, or skill your company is looking for in employees.
  • Providing sessions on relevant career topics, such as interviewing tips, hosting mock interviews, resume writing tips or other topics.
  • Providing projects for our senior capstone courses.
  • Getting involved with student clubs and organizations.
  • Becoming involved in our department internship, to offer internships for academic credit for our undergraduate students.

For more information on how to connect with SCI students by hosting an information session, technical talkor career skills event, please contact Amy Sever at 480.965.3199 or at amy.sever@asu.edu

 

 

Companies:
Participation:

41st Parameter

Company Description

Revolutionizing Internet Security
The 41st Parameter is revolutionizing the way businesses think about - and employ - effective Internet security. We specialize in providing expert solutions for identifying and preventing online Internet fraud for online merchants and banks. Using our advanced Internet fraud prevention solutions, we help protect online businesses against fraud threats with expertise and technology that can identify legitimate versus suspect devices with unprecedented accuracy.

By acknowledging what both computers and people do best, The 41st Parameter leverages its technology to do the heavy computational lifting while freeing up human investigators to focus on actual investigation, rather than chasing down false leads.

Our Secret Weapon
Our patent-pending technologies – developed by our team industry recognized experts with extensive knowledge in the financial, e-commerce, security and payment industries – continuously collect new and unique parameters from end-user devices to create a "PC Fingerprint." This fingerprint enables forensic identification of devices to monitor suspicious or fraudulent account activity and help protect sensitive customer data. What's more, our products have "zero imposition," requiring no action or behavior change on the part of the consumer.

The Security Mission
Our goal: enable clients to focus on their core business. With technology that integrates seamlessly into existing business processes, and by approaching risk management from a holistic viewpoint, The 41st Parameter offers its clients peace of mind today...and tomorrow.

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Actual Metrics

Company Description

Founded by an ex-Googler and based in the Scottsdale Airpark, Actual Metrics is a Google Solutions provider. Our business is centered around knowing everything possible about Google Analytics and Urchin Software, and providing consulting, support, training, analysis, integration, and customization services to our customers. We also work with a variety of other software and hardware tools that feed data into Urchin & Google Analytics.

The country may be in the midst of a recession, but we have more new business than we can handle!

 
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American Express

Company Description

American Express Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a payments, network, and travel company worldwide. It offers individual consumer charge cards, revolving credit cards, and cobrand cards; and merchant acquisition and processing, and proprietary payments services. The company also issues travelers checks; various prepaid products, including reloadable and nonreloadable prepaid cards; incentive prepaid products, such as gift cheques, points-based incentive cards, and incentive funds card; and prepaid gift cards. In addition, American Express provides expense management services to approximately 100,000 firms through its corporate card program, corporate purchasing solutions, electronic invoicing and payment services, and business travel services. Its travel services include travel reservation advice and booking transaction processing; travel expense management policy consultation; supplier negotiation and consultation; management information reporting, data analysis and benchmarking; and foreign exchange services. The company serves consumers, small businesses, mid-market companies, and banking institutions. American Express was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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Avanade Inc.

Company Description

Avanade is a global consulting and services company focused exclusively on delivering enterprise solutions built on Microsoft technologies. By completing thousands of projects for all types of enterprises, Avanade has developed the industry’s deepest expertise on the Microsoft platform, allowing us to extend the capabilities of Microsoft’s current and future products to meet customer needs. Avanade’s solutions development team leverages the innovations and best practices from its customer successes and builds on these “assets” to create an unmatched portfolio of proven, repeatable solutions. The company offers the optimal choice of delivery resources, including the world’s most extensive offshore community of Microsoft experts. Avanade’s unique position in the market, combined with our solutions, talent and customer focus, enable us to deliver exceptional value to customers.

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Capital Group

Company Description

The Capital Group Companies is among the most experienced investment management organizations in the world, For more than 75 years, bright and engaged people like you have contributed to the well-being of our investors and associates.

We know there are many opportunities for smart, motivated graduates with degrees in Information Technology. Many organizations promote their entry-level programs with promises of development and training and a great work environment. We mean it:

-Computerworld ranked the Capital Group Companies forth on the list of the top 100 companies for IT professionals to work
-We spent more per IT associate on training and development than any other top-ranked organization on their list
-We were among the top 10 employers of minority IT professionals on their list


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  • Information Session

 


Charles Schwab

Company Description

Charles Schwab, one of the nation's largest financial services firms providing securities brokerage, banking, wealth management and related financial services for over seven million active accounts with more than one trillion in assets. Our clients include domestic and international individual investors, independent investment advisors and corporate retirement and investing plan sponsors.


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Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment

Company Description

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc. (CME), headquartered near Phoenix, is dedicated to the fusion of social experiences with entertainment software and games. The company is engaged in building global entertainment brands based on fresh concepts and rich game play.

CME is developing software for a variety of platforms and systems, including current and next-generation consoles, handheld devices and PCs. The complexity of developing games for many devices in many genres means CME is constantly recruiting top industry talent. The world-class team currently in place has more then 550 titles to its credit, including the highly acclaimed games and innovative software that have fueled the exponential growth in the games industry.

CME is committed to using the latest technology and processes in software development. When prudent, the team licenses third-party engines and other foundation technologies to allow the programmers, designers and artists to focus on game innovations that advance the industry.


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Click Squared

Company Description

Click2 is first and foremost a marketing services company, what sets us apart from any other marketing company is that we have developed a web based application that not only enables us (because we are a service provider) but enables our clients to manage their marketing campaigns thru this application that we build and customize for them. We have three locations – Boston is our Corporate office and primarily the email side of the business, Atlanta is our base of operations and the direct mail side of the business.

 

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cxt software

Company Description

CXT Software is a leading provider of Delivery Software and Mobile Resource Management technology for the transportation and delivery industries.Our team is comprised of industry and technology specialists who practice excellence in developing resource/logistic management software. We combine the highest ethical standards, the best technology and the unique talents of our individuals to exceed our customers' expectations-so they can exceed their customers expectations and their competitors capabilites.

We are a Microsoft Certified Partner and utilize Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Java (J2ME), Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office, and other tools to facilitate our needs.


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ebay

Company Description

Founded in 1995, eBay Inc. connects hundreds of millions of people around the world every day, empowering them to explore new opportunities and innovate together. eBay Inc. does this by providing the Internet platforms of choice for global commerce, payments and communications. Since its inception, eBay Inc. has expanded to include some of the strongest brands in the world, including eBay, PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com, and others. eBay Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, California.


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eFulgent

Company Description

Since 1997, eFulgent has assisted enterprises, organizations and government agencies maximize their corporate information in their database using best in breed, best in class Business Intelligence software solutions. Our extensive capabilities include data warehousing, enterprise reporting, database management, e-business application development, and customized technical training. As a comprehensive resource, we provide business intelligence solutions for every reporting requirement. Large and small organizations alike enjoy our personalized, highly responsive customer service.

 

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Freescale

Company Description

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $6.2 billion (USD).

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Garmin

Company description

Garmin International Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. group of companies that designs, manufactures, and markets navigation and communications equipment for the aviation and consumer markets. Our products serve aviation, marine, automotive, wireless, OEM, and general recreation applications. Specifically, we aim to enrich the lives of customers, suppliers, distributors, and employees by providing the very best products that offer superior quality, safety, and operational features at affordable prices.


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General Dynamics

Company Description

General Dynamics C4 Systems develops and integrates secure communication and information systems and technology. With more than 11,000 employees worldwide, the company specializes in command and control, communications networking, computing and information assurance for defense, government and select commercial customers in the United States and abroad.


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  • Internships
  • Sponsor WCS Programming Competition

GoDaddy

Company Description

GoDaddy.com is the world's largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

The Go Daddy Group of companies also includes Wild West Domains, Inc., a reseller of domains and domain-related products and services; Domains by Proxy, a private registration service; Starfield Technologies, a research and development affiliate; and Blue Razor Domains, a membership-based discount registrar.


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  • Sponsor WCS Programming Competition

Google, Inc.

Company Description

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.

When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.


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  • Tech Talk
  • Information Session
  • Graduate Lunch Panel
  • Sponsor WCS Programming Competition

iLink Systems

Company Description

iLink is an ISO certified mid-size (~200 employees) software solutions provider offering Microsoft technology-based solutions to firms ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Preferred Vendor. Technologies that we've implemented for our clients include .Net (including WPF, WCF and WF), Business Intelligence - SQL Server 2005 (with integration, analysis, reporting, OLAP, etc), SharePoint 2007, BPI - BizTalk (with WF, HL7 accelerator), Mobility, ASP.Net, AJAX, LAMP stack etc. Our core competency lies in Information Worker Solutions, Business Process Integration, Data Management Solutions, Microsoft mobility solutions, and horizontal solutions around User Experience, QA & Testing and Web Marketing.

 

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intel

Company Description

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, server, networking and communications products.

Successful intern and graduate candidates will have a BS, MS or Ph.D. degree and a 3.0 or above GPA in electrical / computer engineering, computer science or related technical discipline.

 
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JDA

Company Description

JDA® Software Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: JDAS) is the enduring demand and supply chain partner to the world’s leading retailers, manufacturers and suppliers, helping more than 5,500 customers in more than 60 countries realize real demand chain results. JDA has solidified a unique marketplace position, in that only JDA can offer a complete vertically-focused solution with the depth and breadth of capabilities necessary to enable the Customer-Driven Value Chain. JDA software solutions enable high-performance business process optimization and execution to achieve a connected view of the customer from raw materials flowing into production to end-consumer products at the shelf.


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Lockheed Martin

Company Description

Lockheed Martin is a highly diversified $35.5 billion advanced technology company and the strategic leader in the aerospace industry with major positions in information systems, software development, space, launch vehicles, aeronautics, electronics, environmental services, and energy programs. The vision of the Corporation is to be the world’s premier systems engineering and technology enterprise. To meet that vision, Lockheed Martin will continue to build on its history of success in identifying and capitalizing on key information systems, electronic, aerospace, and energy technologies. The Corporation is organized into five core business areas: Aeronautical Systems, Space Systems, Electronic Systems, Information & Technology Services, and Integrated Systems & Solutions. Within these five businesses are nearly fifty major businesses with locations in most of the fifty states and around the world.


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  • Career Skills
  • Sponsor WCS Programming Competition

Marvell

Company Description

Fast forward your career with Marvell. We are the most innovative company in the semiconductor industry today. We have an outstanding history of delivering next generation products that are revolutionizing the way the world connects. Through strong partnerships that include Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Toshiba, Marvell is able to deliver total product solutions for storage, communications and media processing featuring industry-leading performance, the lowest power and the highest level of integration.

 

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Microsoft

Company Description

Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft (NASDQ symbol: MSFT) employs thousands of talented people in a wide array of fields. Our core mission: create groundbreaking technology that unleashes creativity, connects businesses, and makes learning more fun. We enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. http://careeradvice.heygenius.com/


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  • Tech Talk
  • Sponsor WCS Programming Competition

Mitel

Company Description

Mitel is a leading global provider of enterprise and small business communications solutions and services. Each day we are building hardware and software that changes the way people communicate with each other. In order to drive this evolution, we want talented people who are energized by change and ready for challenges.
Mitel is # 1 in the US small-to-medium business market & is # 1 in the UK enterprise communications market. We operate over 100 offices in more than 90 countries and have a reseller channel with over 1500 partners.

Mitel cares about our environment and actively maintains a Design for the Environment program. We were the first enterprise communications solutions provider to join The Climate Registry. We support efforts to reduce the impact that corporate activities have on the environment and have been ISO 14001 certified since 1999.

 

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Pearson

Company Description

Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services, helping people of all ages to learn at their own pace, in their own way. For students preK-12, Pearson provides effective and innovative curriculum products in all available media, educational assessment and measurement for students and teachers, student information systems, and teacher professional development and certification programs. Pearson's respected brands include Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, AGS, PowerSchool, SuccessMaker, TeacherVision and many others. The company's comprehensive offerings help inform targeted instruction and intervention so that success is within reach of every student. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.


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Performance Software

Company Description

Jump-start your career in a fast-paced environment with a company that encourages you to take on new responsibilities as fast as you can develop your skills. Your new position will require you to be a contributing member of a highly skilled Software Development team. We are looking for New Graduates, Interns and CoOps interested in learning Software Development Engineering of Real-time Embedded Commercial and Defense Avionics.

Performance Software is a leading Avionics and Defense software development firm located in Phoenix, AZ. Founded in 1998, Performance Software was awarded as one of INC 500’s fastest growing U.S. based companies in 2003 and chosen as one of the “Best Places to Work in Arizona” in 2007. We have offices in both North Phoenix, Grand Rapids, and Clearwater. This is a great opportunity to join a stable, growing company with a primary focus on hiring and developing the best engineering talent in our industry. Our customers include top Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and abroad. Our software controls some of the most advanced commercial and military airplanes in the world.


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Progressive

Company Description

Progressive is not what you would expect from an insurance company. Based in Mayfield Village, OH with IT offices in Colorado Springs, CO, we offer a highly competitive, challenging place to work, combining interesting projects with excellent work/life balance. Progressive Insurance is the 3rd largest auto insurance company in the U.S., providing immediate claims response with competitive rates and 24-hour in-person services. Customers can purchase products by phone, online at progressive.com, and through more than 40,000 independent agents.

Progressive’s Information Technology (IT) organization develops and delivers technology solutions across a wide array of platforms from high-end IBM mainframes to single PC desktops. IT supports a broad mix of customers, each requiring unique system solutions. Our software runs in 40,000 independent agents’ offices, in 24X7 call centers, on the Internet (where we were the first insurance company to sell auto policies in real time on the Net), in mobile claims vehicles, and throughout the Progressive organization. The Mainframe and Client Server groups play a key role in helping Progressive maintain its technological leadership in the auto insurance industry.


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Rainbow Studios

Company Description

Rainbow Studios, located in Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the largest video game developers in the Southwest. Rainbow is a wholly owned subsidiary of THQ, an industry-leading publisher that has developed top quality video games for thirteen years. Named Game Informer’s “Developer of the Year for 2001”, Rainbow Studios is one of THQ’s premier creators of next generation content for console systems and PC. Rainbow’s seventeen-year video game history has included the award-winning ATV Off-road Fury, critically acclaimed Splashdown games, highly praised MX franchise, and recent blockbuster Disney Pixar CARS title.


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  • Sponsor WCS Programming Competition

riverbed

Company Description

Riverbed Technology is the pioneer and, with over 3,000 customers, the worldwide technology and market share leader in wide area data services (WDS). Riverbed provides the first and only comprehensive WDS solution to a host of severe problems that have effectively prevented enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide areas. By wide area, we mean anywhere in the world. Between Chicago and New York. Or between Seattle and Shanghai.

Riverbed's award-winning Steelhead WDS appliances address all of the issues that affect application performance over the WAN, dramatically improving the performance of applications that companies and knowledge workers rely on every day - including file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, as well as ERP and CRM solutions. With Riverbed, any of these applications can be accelerated somewhere between 5 and 50, and even up to 100 times faster.

In very simple terms, the impact for companies is the difference between having dial-up and having broadband. Suddenly, the impossible becomes possible, just like that.

 

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Sandhills Publishing

Company Description

Sandhills Publishing, with a Scottsdale, Arizona location, is a leader in information processing and markets a diverse range of products. Our Scottsdale, Arizona office is an information technology center. This office functions as Sandhills’ redundant data center as well as a center for our software development, networking and database projects. This location continues to grow rapidly as our company grows every year. Sandhills Publishing produces newsstand and consumer magazines such as Smart Computing and Computer Power User (CPU). They also publish trade (advertising only) publications for buyers and sellers of aircraft, trucks, heavy machinery and computer equipment. Sandhills Publishing owns these publications, therefore everything from designing the layouts, writing the editorial, marketing the publications, designing computer systems and web sites for internal and external customers, printing and binding the publications, etc is done in-house.

 

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Shamrock Foods Company

Company Description

Shamrock Foods Company is the umbrella for Shamrock Farms, the largest dairy in the Southwest, and Shamrock Foods, a nationally ranked foodservice distributor. Now headquartered in Phoenix, Shamrock sends refrigerated trucks to 9 other states from distribution centers in Phoenix, Commerce City (Denver) Colorado and Albuquerque New Mexico.


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Sogeti USA

Company Description

Sogeti USA (formerly Software Architects) is a premier provider of information technology services to businesses and public-sector organizations worldwide. Operating in 19 U.S. locations, Sogeti builds strong relationships with organizations in the local business community, primarily serving Fortune 2000 organizations. As innovators with a sophisticated command of business and technology and strong project management experience, Sogeti is a leader in helping clients to develop and implement practical IT solutions to run their businesses better. Drawing on more than 35 years of global experience, Sogeti USA offers a comprehensive portfolio of services that includes Applications Management, Business Intelligence, IBM Solutions, Microsoft Solutions, Project Delivery Services and Software Control Testing.


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Sunquest Information Systems

Company Description

Sunquest was founded in 1979. As a private company until 1996 and later as a public company, it led the industry in hospital laboratory and radiology information systems. Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. is a market leader in clinical data management installed in more than 1000 U.S. hospitals and commercial laboratories, and over 60 customers in Canada, UK, Western Europe, and the Middle East. The company designs, develops, and supports a comprehensive suite of information products for hospitals and laboratories that include laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy systems. Sunquest uses open systems that are scalable to any size hospital or healthcare network.

 

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Tata Consultancy Services

Company Description

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions, and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model TM, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata Group, India’s biggest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 113,000 of the world’s best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $5.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008, and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.

 

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Tektronix

Company Description

Tektronix is a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products, solutions and services for the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries - as well as military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education and a broad range of other industries worldwide. With 60 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation global communications networks, computing and advanced technologies. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide.

 

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US Army

Company Description

U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command (ISEC) provides systems engineering, installation, integration, implementation, and evaluation support for communications and information technology systems worldwide.

 

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Vensoft Inc.

Company Description

Vensoft Inc. is a global Information Technology services & solutions company. Founded in 1996, Vensoft Inc. provides best in class IT services to its clients throughout the United States. These include Software Application Development, Business Intelligence Development, & Business Intelligence Analysis services. Globally, Vensoft Inc. provides offshore IT solutions including QA Engineering, LAMP Technology based solutions, eLearning, Infrastrucutre Management Services, & more. Vensoft Inc. is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, and has grown to include more than 425 employees. Vensoft Inc. is currently hiring Software Application Developers, Business Intelligence Developers, & Business Intelligence Analysts.


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WebShare

Company Description

WebShare, LLC, is a full service Internet Marketing consulting firm specializing in Search and Conversion Marketing. Our multi-faceted approach to web marketing consists of building highly optimized, cutting edge websites and applications, continually analyzing and attracting more targeted, qualified visitors, and converting those visitors on the specific goals of that site. Advanced analytics and tracking data is applied across client websites and used to monitor usability and profitability metrics in near real time, and these metrics provide the basis for the data driven decision making process that is central to all of WebShare's programs. Multivariate and A/B/N statistical testing is employed to continually improve upon site usability and conversion rate metrics, and WebShare is currently one of five select firms in the world recognized by Google as a Google Website Optimizer Authorized Consultant, a Google Analytics Authorized Consultant, and a Google Adwords Qualified Company. As part of these programs we work hand in hand with Google's management and engineering teams on these products.


We are looking for interns and full time candidates to work in the Phoenix office. Candidates should have a strong background in web site and web application design and deployment, and should be expert in at the very least PHP / mySQL development. Working at WebShare is only partly technical, however. It is crucial to understand how to track, analyze and use advanced web analytics for the continual improvement and financial success of our clients. Common projects on the technical side include web site redesign and application coding as well as creating and installing tracking scripts and conversion testing code to e-commerce and non e-commerce sites. Opportunities for advanced statistical analysis and design of experiments are also available.
On the marketing and consulting side, common projects include analysis of detailed web analytics and reports compilations, pay per click account management, conversion marketing designs and mockup creation, and creative problem solving to address our clients' unique needs. We aren't looking for "just a programmer" - we are looking for someone who is interested in taking a technical background to the next level by interacting with clients and performing data analysis to find the optimal solution for a company's web presence.

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