VP of Technology

Take full leadership of the Technology group of a fast growing interactive agency in Atlanta. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that the interactive agency enhances and extends the caliber of all technology related services that it provides to its clients.


Essential Functions

 

?  Acting as the lead technology representative on business development opportunities

?  Evaluating the technical viability of ideas/concepts brainstormed by the creative team

?  Developing time estimates and resource requirements for technology components of proposals and SOW?s

?  Evaluating, implementing, reviewing and managing all processes and activities that contribute to a world-class technology organization. This includes:

o Ensuring adherence to a consistent development methodology

o Maintaining a clear definition of roles and responsibilities of the technology team

o Building a repository of key re-usable components that streamline our development process

o Maintaining effective Intra-office communication with remote technology teams

o Managing effective and comprehensive quality assurance testing on all projects

o Managing all technology development activities to ensure that robust and scalable quality products are delivered on time and on budget

?  Managing internal R&D programs including guiding the development roadmap of the interactive agency?s game server platform

?  Developing partner relationships with external technology services providers (contractors and other technology services firms) to develop a deep bench of technical resources

?  Monitoring technological advancements in the industry and keeping the management team appraised technology market trends/developments

?  Training team on emerging new technologies that our clients are actively evaluating

?  Manage the internal IT department

 

Experience

 

?  Minimum of 7 years programming/information technology experience

?  Project Management

?  Management of offshore development teams


Education
 

Bachelors Degree


Competencies

 

?  Successful track record in leading development teams using the following technologies

o Database Experience (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Unix - BSD)

o Web Programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++, Visual Basic - VBA, Microsoft .Net, JAVA, PHP, Perl)

o Content management systems and Application Servers

 

Career Path

 

?  Client management or other executive position based upon performance and experience