SCI Job Fair: Student Information

School of Computing and Informatics undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend the SCI Job Fair for the opportunity to meet top employers looking to hire SCI students for jobs and internships.

This is an ideal opportunity to meet with representatives from both local and national companies to discuss career opportunities specifically related to computer science and computer engineering. Participating companies may have full-time, part-time or internship opportunities available. Some companies may invite selected students to participate in on-campus interviews.

What students are saying about the SCI Job Fair:

• “It’s great!”
• “Best event ever!”
• “Thank you for this opportunity!”
• “It was a wonderful and beneficial experience!”
  

What companies are saying about our students and the SCI Job Fair:

• “There is a lot of talent at ASU. Encourage students to do summer   internships whenever they can to help get some industry experience before looking for full-time jobs."
• “We enjoy recruiting at ASU!”
• "Great event!”

Companies who attended the Spring 2009 Job Fair:

To review companies who have previously attended the SCI Job Fair, please see SCI's industry involvement information. Check back often as new companies are added to the Spring 2009 job fair each week.

Companies:

360 Vantage LLC
American Express
CXT Software
EchoStar Technologies Corporation
Garmin International
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
General Dynamics C4 Systems
Limelight Networks
Lockheed Martin
Microsoft
Performance Software
Progressive Insurance
Riverbed Technology
Sandhills Publishing
Sun Microsystems
Tektronix
U-Haul International

360 Vantage LLC

www.360vantage.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio

360 Vantage may be different from any other services and solutions company you have worked with before. We are not concerned with selling you a product and then moving on. Our concern is solving your challenges, providing value with every engagement, and building a long-term relationship. We do this by understanding your organization inside and out. To this end we conduct rep rides, key person interviews, and design sessions. We ask as many questions as is necessary to ensure we understand the entire picture, your goals, and your current challenges.

At the end of the day you will look at us as an extension of your organization and will be pleased with the results.

Our goal is to make you look like a rock star.

Philanthropy:
We believe the value of an organization should extend past its borders, into the local community as well as the global community as a whole.

We are dedicated to providing 1% of employee time, 1% of company equity and 1% of our services to those in need.

Our employees give freely of their time and expertise, feeding the homeless, mentoring kids, supporting our veterans and armed service members, and offering helping hands to improve the lives of others within our local community

Our Mission:
Our mission is to pursue innovation. To push the limits of existing sales and marketing technology to provide fast, accurate, and easy-to-use solutions that can be accessed from anywhere.

Our Values:
We see things differently, we push beyond the known, the comfortable, the expected and accept no limits and know that everything is possible.

We stand together, uniting to achieve long-term partnerships with clients and co-workers. Always protecting these bonds and always doing the right thing.

We outthink—outshine—outdistance and strive to surpass all expectations. Recognizing that our performance creates success and we play to win.

We are swift and agile, understanding that staying in one place means falling behind.

www.360vantage.com

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American Express

www.americanexpress.com

Hiring Type: Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
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.

Type of Job:
American Express Technologies
Summer Intern Opportunities
Class of 2010

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CXT Software

www.cxtsoftware.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs:No

Company Bio
CXT Software is a leading edge provider of software solutions for the on-demand, distribution and scheduled route delivery industries. The company is dedicated to providing businesses with the tools necessary to thrive and compete in an ever-evolving marketplace. CXT Software is an Arizona based company with headquarters in Phoenix. For more information on CXT Software, visit www.cxtsoftware.com.

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EchoStar Technologies Corporation

www.echostar.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
EchoStar Corporation, brings more than 25 years of experience in delivering innovations in digital TV entertainment, set-top boxes, and end-to-end video delivery systems. EchoStar provides valuable service to satellite, IPTV, cable, terrestrial, and consumer electronics markets worldwide with a diverse suite of engineering disciplines. Engineering positions primarily located just south of Denver with both snowboarding and the downtown cultural and social centers just minutes away.

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Garmin International

www.garminu.com

Hiring Type: Jobs
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
What began as a brainstorming session of a handful of engineers around a card table in 1989 has evolved into a worldwide collaborative effort of thousands of colleagues. Garmin’s goal, as it was then, remains simple: To create navigation and communication devices that can enrich our customers’ lives. Our innovative products span various areas of interest, including automotive, aviation, marine, fitness, outdoor recreation and wireless applications.

A member of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), Garmin International exemplifies growth for everyone involved – consumers, employees, investors and retail partners. The secret to our success isn’t even that much of a secret. From the time that the founders focused on selling their first product using GPS (Global Positioning System), Garmin has hired and surrounded itself with creative minds and passionate spirits.

We have Software Engineering positions available at out Tempe, AZ location as well as our Olathe, KS headquarters location.

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General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

www.gd-ais.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (GDAIS),headquartered in Arlington, Va., is a leading provider of transformational mission solutions in command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance (C4ISR). General Dynamics (GD) has a rich heritage of providing government & commercial customers in the defense, intelligence & homeland security communities with superior customer satisfaction through flawless execution & continual improvement. GDAIS operates as 1 of 4 companies in GD IS&T group. GD employs approximately 84,000 employees & reported 2007 revenue of $27.2 billion. It is a market leader in mission-critical information systems & technologies; land & expeditionary combat systems, armaments & munitions; shipbuilding & marine systems; & business aviation.

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General Dynamics C4 Systems

www.gdc4s.com/college

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
General Dynamics C4 Systems develops and integrates secure communication and information systems and technology. With more than 10,000 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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Limelight Networks

www.llnw.com

Hiring Type: Jobs
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
Limelight Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:LLNW) is a content delivery partner enabling the next wave of Internet business and entertainment. More than 1,300 Internet, entertainment, software, and technology brands trust our robust, scalable platform to monetize their digital assets by delivering a brilliant online experience to their global audiences.

Limelight Networks is a US-based company with over 280 employees and offices in Tempe, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Market Opportunity, Products and Solutions:

As consumer demands for media content over the Internet have increased, and enabling technologies such as broadband access to the Internet have proliferated, consumption of rich media content has become increasingly important to Internet end-users and therefore to the content providers that serve them. Limelight has developed a range of services and has architected its network to meet the unique requirements that content providers face in delivering rich media content and other digital assets to large Internet audiences.

Limelight has built a global network of logical CDN locations with extensive storage capacity across the United States, Europe, and Asia that is capable of rapidly delivering digital media worldwide. Each of the network's logical CDN locations holds a substantial amount of computing power and storage capacity. The CDN's current global delivery capability exceeds 2 terabits per second -- a capacity that allows Limelight to support the most demanding digital distribution challenges and massive traffic spikes associated with special one-time or unexpected events. The network's highly scalable infrastructure also enables Limelight to maintain performance levels as its customers' audiences grow, media file sizes increase, and content libraries expand.

Limelight Dedicated Infrastructure Services help emerging companies, software providers, enterprises and government agencies with complex, demanding digital distribution challenges by delivering custom infrastructure solutions that meet their specific delivery needs, leveraging the globally distributed infrastructure Limelight has built over the past 7 years.
For more information on Limelight Networks, check out our website at www.llnw.com

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Lockheed Martin

www.lockheedjobs.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
Lockheed Martin is a highly diversified $39.6 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 four core business areas: Aeronautical Systems, Space Systems, Electronic Systems, and Information Systems & Global Services. Within these four businesses are nearly fifty major businesses with locations in most of the fifty states and around the world.

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Microsoft

www.microsoft.com/college

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is an extremely dynamic company. Nowhere else will you have such a variety of products and technologies to get behind—or so many career paths to choose from. You’ll learn from people who have been in the industry for over 30 years. And most of all, you’ll have the resources to reach people all over the world with your work. It’s about taking your career as far as you want it to go—in any direction you choose. With more than 300 products and services in our portfolio, imagine your possibilities!

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Performance Software

psware.com

Hiring Type: Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
Performance Software, Inc was founded in 1998. We design real-time Embedded Software for Avionics. We support commercial and defense customers. Our locations include Phoenix, AZ, Grand Rapids, MI and Clearwater, FL. Our business is software development so we are looking for interns who are interested in software and working toward a BS Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.

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Progressive Insurance

jobs.progressive.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
Actively recruiting summer 2009 internships and spring 2009 graduates for openings in:
** IT Applications Programmer Associate
** IT Operations Analyst Associate
** IT Quality Assurance Analyst Associate
** IT Summer Internship

Talk vs. Action!
Since 1937 Progressive has been in the business of exceeding expectations. Every day, our talented employees put our core values into action; living the Golden Rule, serving our customers with Excellence and Integrity, and focusing on achieving our Objectives and realizing the Profitability that ensures our shared success. There's something unique going on here; something you won't find at other companies in the insurance (or any other) industry; something truly Progressive - and we want you to be part of it.

Perception vs. Reality!
So, what is Progressive? For starters, we're the nation's third largest automotive insurance company. But in reality, we're so much more. Progressive is a mindset; a revolutionary concept that's changing the way our industry works and is thought of by those we serve. It's not just the name of our company; it's how we think - about everything. It's not just a group of people working in offices - it's 27,000+ of the smartest, most innovative minds insurance has ever seen. And it's not for everyone. Progressive is about daring to challenge perceptions, and creating a better reality - for our customers and for our employees.

Basic vs. Beyond!
At Progressive, we expect the best from our people. And in return, we reward them for their contributions - with the kinds of benefits, training and extras that go above and beyond what employees at other organizations expect. Basically, we believe in hiring the best people, and in making sure they want to stay with us. That's why when you join Progressive you can expect: Competitive pay and benefits – A gainsharing program (similar to a bonus program) for every employee based on business performance - Over 3 weeks of paid time off your first year – A casual business environment - A 401(k) plan with company match – Access to classroom and on-line training and the latest technology – A charitable foundation that offers matching contributions – Tuition assistance - Employee referral awards - Country-wide vendor discount program

In addition, our headquarters and larger locations offer:
- Nationally recognized art collection
- Onsite medical facilities including free health screenings
- Fitness centers offering group classes and personal trainers
- Quiet rooms and seated massage

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Riverbed Technologies

www.riverbed.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
Riverbed Technology is the pioneer and, with over 5,500 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.

People are drawn to Riverbed because of our outstanding technical reputation, unique culture, and the opportunity to work with smart, creative people in an open, collaborative environment. Employees here are passionate about their jobs because they know their opinions and innovations can dramatically improve productivity and change the way people work.

Employees are the essential component for the development of our technology and the execution of our vision. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals across all functions who share our passion for technology, excellence, and innovation.

Take a closer look at what working at Riverbed is all about. We offer attractive compensation, a benefits package that includes health & wellness coverage, savings/investment plans, and much more.

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Sandhills Publishing

www.sandhills.com/career

Hiring Type: Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
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.

Sandhills Publishing has paid internship opportunities available in Scottsdale, Arizona. We are looking for interns who have a strong interest in software development or networking, and currently are Juniors or first semester Seniors. Interns have the opportunity to obtain real, hands-on experience in the field they are studying. Sandhills Publishing can provide you with an internship experience that is “not your typical internship.”

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Sun Microsystems

www.sun.com/students

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: Yes
Hire international students for jobs: Yes

Company Bio
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership.

Sun provides a diversity of software, systems, services, and microelectronics that power everything from consumer electronics, to developer tools and the world's most powerful datacenters. Our core brands include the Java technology platform, Solaris operating system, the MySQL database management system, StorageTek and the UltraSPARC processor.

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Tektronix, a Danaher Company

www.tek.com/careers

Hiring Type: Jobs and internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
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. Tektronix' Web address is www.tektronix.com.

Danaher is a leading manufacturer of Professional Instrumentation, Industrial Technologies, and Tools and Components with operating companies throughout the US and the world.

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U-Haul International

www.uhaul.com

Hiring Type: Jobs and Internships
Hire international students for internships: No
Hire international students for jobs: No

Company Bio
Founded in 1945, today U Haul trucks and trailers can be rented from over 15,000 independent dealers and more than 14,000 company-owned U-Haul Moving Centers, and we are still growing everyday.

We are looking for a career-minded, growth-oriented individuals to make a real impact on our daily operations. The U Haul Company offers significant opportunities for growth and career advancement, and employees are encouraged to take responsibility for their own careers. U-Haul is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Environment.

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