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Fri 23 Jul 2010
Envisioning and Pragmatic execution - Two faces of progress
Posted by Hiren under InnowixNo Comments
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress – Gandhi .
Very inspiring and encouraging words! Just because a road is not there or a path not taken or something is not done in usual way doesn’t mean that the current status quo is the best option. Similarly, constraints are drivers for innovation often to try and find alternate ways of doing something and means of achieving one’s goals. That’s one of Innowix’s core values. We strongly believe that constraints (technological, financial, political or business) drive to innovative thinking and approaches and we see these as opportunities rather than constraints.
Of course, this philosophy also has to be accompanied by some pragmatism. Envisioning without constraints is great but execution has to be grounded in reality and pragmatism. I am sure all of you can relate to this easily.
That’s the dilemma I am under. There are tons of product/framework ideas that are I am thinking about. However, there are many constraints – mainly financial (read CASH FLOW!) which keep me firmly grounded in reality. Some of these ideas are simply incremental in nature meaning take something somebody has done and add to it to bring additional value. Some of the ideas are quite radical and when I talk to friends about those, I get very cold or unwelcoming reception. But then I remind myself of this quote and keep telling myself that I have to find ways to convert my vision into reality and I am working on those things!
So, dear friends, please keep those negative criticisms and comments coming. I need to hear that to better my vision and build a better case grounded in reality.
Thanks.
Wed 14 Apr 2010
Looking for a strong architect/designer with hands-on experience with BizTalk Server 2009 & ESB Toolkit 2.0 - Chicago Metro area
Posted by Hiren under Innowix , JobsNo Comments
Architect/Designer/Developer - Microsoft .NET
Posted: April 2010
BizTalk 2009 Hands-on Architect
Looking for an Architect with hands-on experience with Microsoft BizTalk 2009 and ESB Toolkit 2.0 for demanding client assignment.
Chicago Metro area
Role:
- Understand the business requirements and define the technical architecture
- Interface with offshore development teams to provide technical guidance around design, development and testing for various services and interfaces
- Interface with client teams to gather requirements, communicate architecture and design approaches, interface with infrastructure and operations teams etc.
- Clearly document and communicate design specifications to various parties involved
- Implement code and test harness
- Help automate the build and release processes
Skills required:
- 6+ years of hands-on system development and implementation experience using Microsoft technologies and products
- 5+ years of hands-on system architecture and design experience using OOAD and other structured system design approaches
- 3+ years of experience with BPM and SOA technologies - specifically with Microsoft product suites
- Must have thorough experience developing systems in VB.NET and/or C#
- Must have thorough experience developing systems on BizTalk 2009 with ESB Toolkit 2.0
- Must be able to apply various facilities available within ESB toolkit appropriately
- Must have thorough experience with various Microsoft technologies and frameworks including .NET, WPF, Silverlight, WCF, WWF, Windows Forms, ASP.NET etc.
- Must have thorough experience designing, developing and deploying systems using BPM and SOA technologies including BPEL, WWF etc.
- Must have experience implementing Web Services and using XML technologies (XML, XSL, XSD, WSDL)
- Should have used Enterprise Library components, Patterns and Practices Guidance
- Should have used Team Foundation Server infrastructure
- Should be able to independently design and develop various human workflow tasks using Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation or other similar technologies
- Thorough hands-on experience with SQL Server database development required
- Experience with Agile and iterative software development methodologies
- Must have experience with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008
- Experience with Microsoft Azure a plus
- Relevant latest certifications in BizTalk will be considered a big plus
- Very good listener and communicator. Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills
- Work with little direct supervision to define and implement solutions for business/technical team
- Excellent documentation and communication skills especially in support of tools and process implementation
7 to 10 years of total industry experience with highly technical skills:
The candidate will need to go through a series of highly technical interviews.
Location: Chicago Metro area
Duration: 4 to 6 months with possibility of longer term engagement
Candidates with US Citizenship/GC will be preferred.
Please send your resume to recruiting@innowix.com
Mon 5 Apr 2010
Innowix is looking for WebSphere Process Server and Message Broker Designers/Developers
Posted by Hiren under Innowix , JobsNo Comments
Innowix is looking for talented and motivated people with following attributes and skill sets:
General Attributes
1. Open and honest - One of the core values of Innowix
2. Quality — Be able to proudly put your mark of approval on your own or your team’s work
3. Listens well - Understand various view points and be able to put them in perspective and address them
4. Meticulous and details oriented yet be able to see large picture/context
5. Pragmatic
6. Own your work and deliverables completely
7. Continuous learner and innovator
8. Very effective communicator at all levels and relationship builder
9. Team player
Specific job openings include:
1. WebSphere SOA/BPM Designers and Developers (WPS, WBM, WID)
Posted: Apr 5, 2010
Responsibilities:
o Create design specifications for system workflows and human workflows based on the business requirements
o Clearly document and communicate design specifications to various parties
o Implement and unit test the code using WebSphere Integration Developer
o Participate in overall module-level and system-level integration
o Participate in performance testing of various code artifacts and tune the code as necessary
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7 to 10 years of total industry experience with highly technical skills:
o 3+ years of experience with BPM and SOA technologies - specifically with IBM product suites
o Clearly document and communicate design specifications to various parties involved
o Must have thorough experience with Java technologies and frameworks including JEE, Spring, Hibernate etc.
o Must have thorough experience designing, developing and deploying systems using BPM and SOA technologies including SCA, BPEL, BPMN etc.
o Must have experience implementing Java Web Services and using XML technologies (XML, XSL, XSD, WSDL)
o Must have experience documenting business processes using WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM)
o Must have experience translating the process models in Business Modeler to WebSphere Integration Developer (WID)
o Must be able to independently design and develop various human workflow tasks using WebSphere Process Server capabilities
o Must have a thorough understanding of Human Task (HT) and Business Process Choreographer (BPC) APIs to create business solutions
o Thorough hands-on experience with Oracle database development required
o Nice to have – Experience integrating Business Rules engine (JRules) with WebSphere Process Server
o Nice to have – knowledge of integrating content/document management solutions such as FileNet and Alfresco etc.
4+ years of working experience on building applications using various integration technologies including:
o IBM WebSphere Business Modeler (Advanced)
o IBM WebSphere Message Broker and Toolkit
o BPEL and Web Services
o IBM WebSphere Integration Developer
2. WebSphere Message Broker Designer/Developer
Posted: Apr 5, 2010
Responsibilities:
o Create design specifications for internal and external interfaces based on the business requirements
o Clearly document and communicate design specifications to various parties
o Implement and unit test the code using WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit
o Participate in overall module-level and system-level integration
o Participate in performance testing of various code artifacts and tune the code as necessary
7 to 10 years of total industry experience with highly technical skills:
o 3+ years of experience with BPM and SOA technologies - specifically with IBM product suites
o Understand the business requirements and translate those into technical design
o Clearly document and communicate design specifications to various parties involved
o Must have thorough experience designing, developing and deploying interfaces and services using EAI and ESB technologies
o Must have experience developing interfaces using transport protocols such as MQ, HTTP etc.
o Must have experience developing with ESQL and Java
o Must be familiar with various nodes in Message Broker and be able to apply them to fulfill an interface specifications
o Must have experience implementing and integrating Java Web Services and using XML technologies (XML, XSL, XSD, SOAP, WSDL)
o Must have experience documenting applications-to-application interface requirements and specifications
o Must have experience translating the specifications to WebSphere Message Broker design
o Must be able to independently design and develop various interface implementation tasks using WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit
o Thorough hands-on experience with Oracle database development required
o Nice to have – knowledge of integrating content/document management solutions such as FileNet and Alfresco etc.
4+ years of working experience on building applications using various integration technologies including:
o IBM WebSphere Message Broker, Toolkit and related adapters
o XML, SOAP, WSDL
o Oracle
Candidates will need to go through a series of highly technical interviews.
Candidates with US Citizenship or Green card will be preferred over H1 candidates
Location: Philadelphia/New Jersey area - Looking for local candidates (No travel)
Duration: 6 months with possibility of longer term engagement
Please send your resume to recruitingRE@MOVEinnowix.com
Fri 7 Aug 2009
Currently we are working on setting up environments for a large-scale project.
For the Windows environment, we are setting up HP Blade environment with few blades and VMWare server on top. HP Blades setup one cool setup with iLO (integrated Lights Out) capability allowing us to manage the entire enclosure and all the devices within the enclosure through single interface.
One of the components in our environment is Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0). We are planning to virtualize this along with the backend SQL Server 2005. So, we are talking about setting up SQL Server cluster on VMWare running on Blades and then using the same for a virtualized WSS setup. This is going to be very interesting. While searching the web for information on best practices for performance on virtualization, I came across this very nice document by Viral Tarapara.
SharePoint Virtualization Best Practices
Enjoy.
I do have doubts on using virtualized environments for SQL Server cluster. However, few documents on the net show that it is feasible and workable solution.
More on our experience with this setup later…
Hiren
Wed 25 Feb 2009
Folks,
We are looking for qualified people for a large project we started in NJ/Philly area:
1. Identity and Access Management Architect, Designers and Developer
- Application focused Id/AM experience required (how to interface with SAM/OpenSSO for RBAC implementation etc.)
- Sun IdM for integrating application user store with the corpoate user store to enable SSO
- AD and SAM/OpenSSO integration using SPNEGO, SAMP or other technologies (WS-Federation?)
2. IBM WebSphere SOA/BPM Designers and Developers
- Designers and developer to help with process modeling using WebSphere Business Modeler
- Translate these models into code using WebSphere Integration Developers
- Implement Human Workflow
Please check out the job postings at http://www.innowix.com/Careers.html
Send you resumes to recruiting@innowix.com.
HB
Sun 5 Oct 2008
On September 6, 2008, Innowix sponsored a Puzzle Party 2008. The Puzzle Party is about gathering group of friends and challenging them to a series of puzzles with time constraints.
It was held at Kensington Metro Park located near Innowix home base. If you are curious, check out the details at http://sites.google.com/site/puzzleparty2008/.
Hiren
Sat 6 Oct 2007
Well folks…Here it is. My first blog entry for the Innowix.
It has been a dream of mine to start a company for quite sometime. I have been fortunate to work with few large IT consulting organizations and through them have interacted and built many systems for large and small clients. Now it is time to leverage those best practices (and avoid worst practices!) to help my own clients.
The focus of this blog is going to be mostly related to technology, architecture and how I am applying these aspects in innovative ways to help my clients not only cut costs but also help with top line growth.