This leading e-Business consulting and systems integration company is a subsidiary of the second fastest—growing publicly traded company in the Chicago area, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. This consulting company employs leading IT and e-Business consulting professionals with deep expertise in Internet, and e-Business strategy, operations and process re-engineering.

• Browser based and traditional Graphical User Interfaces
• Relational Database Technology — Oracle or SQL Server 7
• High volume transaction processing
• Messaging approaches, middleware

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• Experience with analysis and design tools (CASE, object modeling, data and process modeling)

• Programming Languages — at least two of: Java (Preferred), C++, Java, XML
• Scripting languages — at least two of: VB Script, Java Script, PERL
• Component Architectures — experience with one or more of the following — Enterprise JavaBeans (Preferred) CORBA, Active X/DCOM
• Platforms — NT or UNIX

• Internet Site Servers — Microsoft IIS, Active Server Pages, Netscape, Java Server Pages
• Electronic Commerce — Broadvision, Dynamo, Open Market, Vignette

This leading e-Business consulting and systems integration company is a subsidiary of the second fastest—growing publicly traded company in the Chicago area, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. This consulting company employs leading IT and e-Business consulting professionals with deep expertise in Internet, and e-Business strategy, operations and process re-engineering.

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The Client

This firm was formed as a development company in 1993 to provide decision support, advisory and related services to the Information Technology industry. The market for the company's services is currently served by Gartner Group and Meta Group (user-oriented advisory services) and by IDC and Dataquest (vendor-oriented data services); market constituencies currently include large and medium size users of IT, computer and telecom vendors, and institutional investors. The information market exceeds $600m world-wide, abetted by a revolution in the technologies used to search, retrieve, filter and refine information. The firm seeks competitive advantage through an innovative paradigm which optimizes internal and external resources as well as technology in its architecture. This firm is designed to address product and marketing gaps left unfilled by its competitors. The firm's new research process itself results in services offering high value to its customers, designed to provide the following benefits to clients:

1. Save money through better timing of investments related to capacity requirements, new product directions and changing business strategies;
2. Save money by knowing and understanding the strategies of vendors, and by accessing an experience base of business practices and previous negotiations, thus allowing for better short- and long-term negotiation strategies;
3. Obtain additional "opinions" prior to decision-making, or obtain confirmation and support for proposed decisions;
4. Develop better strategic plans and audit existing plans against a library of credible assumptions regarding IT directions;
5. Improve the job effectiveness of in-house IT professionals; and
6. Obtain insights into challenges, job functions and strategies utilized by other enterprises.

IT vendors will receive an additional set of capabilities, including market intelligence, competitive analysis, market and product positioning, and end-user information (what they are saying and doing). IT investors will particularly benefit from the understanding of critical trends affecting user and vendor operations, vendor strategies, product announcement cycles, investment alternatives, and acquisition activities. The Position: Analysts across all Technology Competencies The analytical staff will define, in their areas of expertise, the direction and tone of the firm's research. They will also be responsible for the quality and relevance of the research. Analysts will maintain a high profile in the industry through personal networking and day-to-day contacts, speaking engagements at industry and company-sponsored conferences, and attribution in trade and business publications. Each analyst will work closely with the Vice President of Research to ensure synchronicity of the research process and tools with the research agenda. Areas of expertise include Personal Computing, Client/Server, Open Systems, Servers, Networks, Software, Services, Emerging Technologies, Digital World, and Management of IT.

Qualifications/Background

The successful candidate must enjoy being a technologist, assimilating and disseminating independent research, and serving as a resource to clients. S/he must be effective in presentation, and consistently promote an image of enthusiasm, energy and unbiased insight. The candidate must be intellectually curious and have knowledge of current trends, forces, issues, significant events, new products, companies, markets, application and directions of the information industry from both a user and vendor strategy perspective. Candidates must be individuals who have a creative and expansive thought process, a thirst for knowledge and information, strong research capability, skepticism, willingness to take positions on issues, a median of experience, excellent communication skills, and clout and credibility. The candidate must not be too detail oriented. S/he must be able to draw conclusions from reviewing a large mass of data, and enjoy being an individual contributor on a team. Candidates should be able to design and develop strategic planning assumptions, and be service oriented. Ideal candidates will excel at assisting clients in making sound business decisions and see his/her role as that of an information provider. Candidates must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Successful candidates will be entrepreneurial and able to work well in a highly demanding, production-oriented, unstructured and dynamic environment where mastery of sound time management and creative execution of analyses are critical.

The best candidates for this position will possess a natural tendency to accumulate knowledge in all aspects of the IT industry together with a natural proclivity for consulting with other professionals seeking similar knowledge. Demonstrated superior performance in previous roles in planning or other assignments that required sharp analytical and intuitive skills would prepare a candidate for success. Individuals who have superior presentation skills, self confidence, flexibility, drive, as well as the ability to grow, contribute and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment will be highly rewarded since a major component of the compensation includes an incentive bonus with a multiplier component; stock options may be available. Compensation and Location The compensation package is highly competitive, including salary and a performance-driven bonus commensurate with candidate's experience. The position's locations are in the Northeast and West Coast.

If you know of someone you would like to recommend, we will handle all inquiries with the appropriate discretion.

The client is an equal opportunity employer.

Contact:

Susan Tracy
Wheeler Associates
FAX (203) 454-1632

Advanced Technology Center
Senior Management

General Characteristics

OBJECT TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS - TECHNICAL & APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE TOOLS, METHODOLOGY, USABILITY ENGINEERING, DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY SUPPORT, PLANNING & COORDINATION CENTERS

ATC (Advanced Technology Center) Partners & Sr. Managers will have overall accountability for conception, development and implementation of the large-scale object-oriented (OO) application development and execution infrastructure components. They will manage the ATC functional areas that conceive of, acquire, develop, integrate and deliver the advanced infrastructure that will support development projects. Functional areas that they manage will include Development Process, development Environment, Development Support, Development Laboratory, Usability Engineering, Application Architecture and Technical Architecture.

ATC Partners will be responsible for vision and thought leadership, and for managing their areas' innovations, issues and constraints, for working with each of the other ATC areas to support the ATC mission, and for maintaining relationships with Partners in other areas to ensure that AT&T Solutions functions as a single, cohesive business unit. ATC Partners will play active roles in recruitment, training and professional development of personnel for SI practice.

All ATC Partners should be:

• Thought Leaders, developing breakthrough visions for their ATC areas.
• Leaders, who inspire loyalty and guide their areas, The Laboratories researchers and 3rd party vendor partners through real-world implementations of their visions.
• Hands-on developers, capable of contributing as a working members of their organizations to address issues and solve technical problems.

Major responsibilities of all ATC Partners will include:

• Ensuring good management and on-time delivery of high-quality infrastructure development projects.
• Ensuring that their ATC areas fully support developers' process and infrastructure requirements.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with the research arm of this company and 3rd party vendor partners so that their innovations and products can be leveraged to further the ATC and their areas.
• Enhancing The Solutions Center and his or her own stature through participation in professional organizations, publishing and speaking engagements.

If you know of someone you would like to recommend, we will handle all inquiries with the appropriate discretion.

The client is an equal opportunity employer.

Contact:

Wheeler Associates
FAX (203) 454-1632