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Our technical platform is Open Source Web Applications. Many of our projects are large – well over 100,000 lines of code. Our product suite includes web applications used across North America by thousands of users and databases that contain millions of records.
Our methodology is Object Oriented. Reusability, interoperability and extensibility are mission critical in all our work. If you have skill sets related to Object Oriented development, you can find a role here at Etraffic Solutions.
Etraffic assigns new employees a peer mentor and an in-house project. This approach allows you time to get comfortable with our cultural and technical environment and be sure of initial success. Following the initial project, we will assign you to a production project as a part of a team. Your mentor would continue to provide guidance and support until no longer required.
Once you have worked as a team member on a number of projects, we will expect you to accept projects as a Technical Lead. Here you will be involved in the project through the requirements definition, software design, development stages, deployment and maintenance. Each Technical Lead has considerable input into how a project is undertaken.
Our development department is situated in a common area allowing for information exchange and peer review. Working with the development team puts you on a career track. Our developers are given every opportunity to learn new technologies and to add the following skill sets to their repertoire:
Our development department culture reflects the reality of the education marketplace in the new millennium: it demands agility and adaptability while still insisting on and maintaining traditional high standards of quality.
At Etraffic Solutions, it’s a fast-paced work environment dealing with ever-changing technology. A positive, “can-do” attitude in the face of challenges is essential to our success.
Our staff are always collaborating on a multitude of dynamic projects. To accomplish this range of challenges, our designers bring a variety of skill sets to each task in addition to their exceptional design talents.
Projects can range in size from a one-off event website or logo to the design and production of high volume textbooks and associated multimedia site resources such as games and animations.
Each designer is proficient at one or more of the following applications and technical skills:
Multimedia designers, Flash developers, and Flash animators at Etraffic produce award-winning websites, games and animations. Our team of print designers produce high-end magazines, course textbooks and marketing materials including brochures, posters and trade show banners.
Designers work closely with our Subject Matter Experts, incorporating multi-lingual content into a wide variety of media in order to create solutions that are visually engaging and instructionally sound.
You must excel working in a team environment that brings variety of tasks and workload. At one moment, you will have to produce a large number of units for one project. At other times, you will work quickly through a number of last minute, time-sensitive projects. To do so, our designers must demonstrate excellent communications skills, creativity, flexibility, and above all, a commitment to quality.
Our company’s organization chart reflects the fact that we are project driven. Even in our established product lines, we use the project model to undertake all new work. Our project management approach could be described as “Agile PM” as it incorporates the best practices of both the Project Management Body Of Knowledge and Agile methodologies: do it well, do it fast, adapt in real time. This culture reflects the reality of the education marketplace in the new millennium: it demands agility and adaptability while still insisting on and maintaining traditional high standards of quality.
Our project team includes the VP of Business Management who provides a Return On Investment review towards a “go / no go” decision, a Business Analyst who performs the requirements definition, a Project Manager who organizes the project initiation and planning phases, and Project Coordinators who oversee the day to day progress of each project through the execution, control and closure phases. Project Coordinators also have oversight responsibility for coordinating the constraints of quality, resources and schedules, and facilitate production of any required project documents and stakeholder communications.
The culture at Etraffic is leading edge, supportive, fast paced and dynamic. Project Coordinators always have more than one project on the go at any time. Candidates need to be excellent communicators, patient, flexible, and able to accept challenges. When you join our team, you need to be willing to learn and able to operate outside of your comfort zone. If you really want to grow, you will grow with us!
In addition to our production, content development, and project management staff, there are a number of roles required to provide overall business, technical and administrative support.
Data Processing staff provide critical expertise, helping us work with schools to acquire, clean and import student test results into our Student Performance SnapShot application. The number of records in the SnapShot database is in excess of one million.
The data processing team is involved at every level as we work with new customers. Different jurisdictions report different fields. It can be a lengthy process to help them identify and prepare their data for importing so that the application can process and present it as meaningful information. They must clean, import, and check each data set in an on-going manner. This is meticulous work and staff in this department must be committed to accuracy and attention to detail.
System Administration staff look after an unusually complicated environment: a blend of proprietary and Open Source workstations, laptops and servers dispersed over four geographical locations in both Canada and the U.S. Most of these must be operational 24/7 and all of them need frequent back ups. For just one of our applications, we have nine servers hosted in a mainland based Tier One environment.
All of the required monitoring and maintenance of this equipment needs to be done while keeping up with the requests from staff for day-to-day workstation support.
Business Development and Operations staff ensure the growth and smooth operation of our company. Sales representatives coordinate and execute campaigns for multiple products and services in Canada, in the U.S.A. and several other countries. Sales support and marketing staff coordinate the production of sales collateral, coordinate conference attendance, write and disseminate press releases and provide a host of related services to support our business development activities. Our finance and office administration staff ensures the paperwork is in place and our human resource staff ensures the right people are available in a timely manner.
Subject Matter Experts at Etraffic are individuals with the highest level of expertise in developing content. They are education professionals, subject specialists and even experts in languages – speaking and writing several fluently. They are qualified to develop content per provincial and state K-12 curriculum in subjects such as science, mathematics or history or they may be experts in leadership development for academic or educational environments.
In order to deliver multiple projects, Subject Matter Experts will often coordinate the work of multiple contracted writers and editors to compliment their own production.
Their work will often result not only in a new online course which may include text, assessments, audio, games and other multimedia elements, but also in textbooks printed and distributed to thousands of students.
Not only does this position require mastery in a subject field, Subject Matter Experts also must work very closely with project staff to deliver our learning solutions according to tight deadlines.
Etraffic frequently provides Computer Science and Business co-op students the opportunity to complete their work terms in our Software Development and Business Development departments. Candidates for this position are normally in third or fourth year programs.
We give each co-op student a peer mentor and an in-house project. This approach allows you time to get comfortable with our cultural and technical environment, and be sure of initial success.
Following the initial project, we will assign you to a production project or a project as a part of a team. Your mentor would continue to provide guidance and support until no longer required.
For software developer co-op, our technical platform is Open Source Web Applications yet some of our projects are large – well over 100,000 lines of code. Our methodology is Object Oriented. Reusability, interoperability and extensibility are very important in all of our work. Co-op students can expect their work to follow this approach.
Etraffic Solutions needs to be highly adaptable, resourceful and to respond to our customers’ needs in a timely manner. Helping us meet those challenges provides an opportunity for your company.
While the can-do attitude of our staff allows us to meet the demands of most new projects through innovative solutions, there are times when we need to partner with outside contractors or companies to meet project deadlines.
If you are an individual contractor or represent a company that could provide us resources on a contract basis, we would like to hear from you. We have in place a “Request For Qualifications” process which allows you to be pre-qualified. If we approve your qualifications, and add you to our list of approved vendors, you will be among the first companies that we contact when the need arises.
At this point we are only interested in skill sets, your portfolio and availability. Upon review of the outlined elements, we may wish to further explore a working relationship with your company. In that case, we will contact you directly to request a meeting to discuss specific business arrangements.
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