Newsgroup: it.lavoro.informatica
Titolo: Rome, Italy - IT Resources, Posting # 40

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You must meet the following MANDATORY requirements before further
considerations:
1. You must be a citizen of an UN member country;
2. Good English communications skills;
3. Possess the skills set and actual work experience
    as defined in this posting.
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Posting # 40
Rome, Italy - Systems Development Assistance
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Contract Period: To Be Determined
Posted: July 3, 2003
Background Information:
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Please note this is an upcoming order. You are welcome to register with us
first and if we receive request(s) from the client, we will contact you for
matched opportunities
The client is the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United
Nations and they are looking for IT resources in any of the following
categories:
Senior Analyst
Functional Analyst
Technical analyst
Data Warehouse Specialist
Database Administrator
Programmer/Analyst
Senior Java/JSP Developer Project Manager
Java/JSP Application Developers
XSL Designer/Developer
Technical Analyst/Information Dissemination
Programmer/Analyst/Information Dissemination
GUI Developer
XML/XSLT Developer
VBA Developer
Ontology Engineer
- In your response, please indicate clearly which position(s) you are
interested in applying
Highly Desirable for All Candidates:
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Fluent in Italian (writing and speaking)
Work Area:
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Administrative Systems Group of the Information Systems and Technology
Division
The Main development tools used in this area are: Oracle Reports and Forms
6i, PL/SQL, Discoverer, Warehouse Builder, Java JSP, XML/XSL, Powerbuilder
and Visual Basic. On the mainframe platform: Ideal, COBOL and Focus
a) Senior Analyst
- Degree in IT or accounting
- Experience in implementation of Oracle Financials and/or HR
- Experience in managing development projects
- Working knowledge of English
b) Functional Analyst
- Degree in IT or accounting
- Experience with at least two of the Oracle Financials and HR modules in
use in the administrative systems area
- Experience in producing business requirement documents in English
- Working knowledge of English
c) Technical Analyst
- Degree in IT
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS, system design and one or more development
tools in use in the administrative systems area
- Experience with financial and/or HR systems
- Working knowledge of English
d) Data Warehouse Specialist
- Experience with design and development in Data Warehouse projects
- Experience with Warehouse Builder, Oracle Workflow and Discoverer
- Working knowledge of English
e) Database Administrator
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS
- Experience with data replication, IT degree and working knowledge of
English are not mandatory, but will be considered an asset
f) Programmer/Analyst
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS and one or more development tools in use in
the administrative systems area
- Experience with financial systems and working knowledge of English are not
mandatory, but will be considered an asset
Work Area:
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Technical Systems Group of the Information Systems and Technology Division
The Main development tools used in this area are: Java/JSP, XML/XSL and
SQL/RDBMS technology with CVS used for source code management and version
control
g) Senior Java/JSP Developer Project Manager
- Java web applications design and development experience using
object-oriented techniques; Development experience in MS-Windows and/or UNIX
(incl. Linux) environment
- Experience of XML, XSL.Relational database design and SQL
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required
- Knowledge of Website GUI designs (desirable)
- Geographic Information Systems (desirable)
- Statistical Information Systems (desirable)
- Content and Workflow Management Systems (desirable)
- Spoken and written French, Spanish, Arabic or Chinese (desirable)
h) Java/JSP Application Developers
- Experience with Java/JSP using Object-oriented design and programming
techniques and with Java Servlets or Java Server Pages
- Knowledge of SQL and HTML
- Development experience in MS-Windows and/or UNIX (incl. Linux) environment
- Fluency in written and spoken English is desirable
- Knowledge of XML/XSL (desirable)
- Website GUI designs (desirable)
- JavaScript (desirable)
- Dynamic-HTML (desirable)
- Oracle and Cloudscape/Hypersonic (especially from Java) is desirable
- JRun (desirable)
- TomCat and Apache (desirable)
- MacOS (desirable)
- Geographic Information systems (desirable)
- Statistical Information Systems (desirable)
- Content and Workflow Management Systems (desirable)
i) XSL Designer/Developer
- Experience with cross-browser HTML design
- Experience using W3C standards and techniques
- Experience developing XSL/XSLT templates, including UTF-16 languages using
XSL
- In-depth knowledge of JavaScript across platforms/browsers, including
Javascript vm internal implementation and regular expressions with JS
- In-depth knowledge of HTML 3.2, 4.0 and the latest, with particular
emphasis on the HTML optimization for
- Bandwidth
- Server load
- Browser load
- Compatibility between main browsers
- Cross platforms usability, MS-Windows and/or UNIX (incl. Linux)
- In-depth knowledge of IE and Netscape versions
- Experience with Cascade Style Sheet (CSS) and applicability cross
platforms/browsers
- Experience developing GUI designs
- Basic notions of XML
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Work Area:
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Waicent/FAO Info Dissemination Management Branch
The Main development tools used in this group are: Oracle Reports and Forms
6i, PL/SQL, Java JSP, XML/XSL, and FAO standard Microsoft server and desktop
development tools and databases
j) Technical Analyst/Information Dissemination
- Degree in Information Technology
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS, system design and one or more development
tools in use at FAO
- Experience with technical, statistical and/or textual systems
- Working knowledge of English
K) Programmer/Analyst/Information Dissemination
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS and/or MS-SQL Server 2000 and one or more
development tools in use at FAO
- Experience with textual system
- Working Knowledge of English is not mandatory, but will be considered an
asset
l) GUI Developer
- Experience with HTML, CSS and graphic packages
- Knowledge of XML/XLST
- Experience with textual systems
- Working knowledge of English is not mandatory, but will be considered an
asset
m) XML/XSLT Developer
- Experience with XML/XLST tools and applications
- Knowledge of XSL-FO
- Experience with textual systems
- Working knowledge of English is not mandatory, but will be considered an
asset
o) VBA Developer
- Experience with customization of Microsoft Office tools
- Experience in the development of Word templates and integration with
databases
- Experience with textual systems
- Working knowledge of English is not mandatory, but will be considered an
asset
p) Ontology Engineer
- Advanced degree in knowledge engineering & representation; Information
- Management or Information Technology
- Competence in XML & Semantic Web
- Knowledge engineering & representation
- Ontology theory and application
- Good capabilities of programming in Java
- Good knowledge of DAML/OIL; RDF
- Experience in managing ontology development projects and in developing
ontology-supported IR applications
- Experience with ontology development methodologies, languages and tools
- Experience with design and development of ontologies
- Experience in producing requirement analysis documents for IR applications
- Working knowledge of two FAO languages - English, Spanish, French, Arabic
or Chinese
How To Respond:
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A). Forward your resume in either MS Word or plain text format
      (Your resume will only be presented to our client after we receive
      your agreement);
B). Name your top 3 IT skills and 3 recent work references, preferably
      within the past 3 years to substantiate your credibility;
C). Quote posting number mentioned above in SUBJECT  LINE for
      identification.
D). For other opportunities that you are qualified and interested, quote the
      corresponding posting numbers along with this one. For efficient
      service, please do not send multiple resumes with separate emails.
E). Answer the following questions:
1. How many years of work experience do you have in the IT industry in
    total?
2. Which categories are you applying for?
3. How many years of work experience do you have in the category (or
categories) you are interested in?
4. When are you available to start?
5. Are you incorporated, registered partnership, sole proprietorship or
    neither?
6. What is your expected hourly rate (The client will not pay for the living
    expense. If you are a non-local resident, you may consider the cost of
    living in the Rome area and include it in your hourly rate.)?
7. If you are a non-local resident, are you willing to relocate to the Rome
area?
8. For the category (or categories) you are interested in, please indicate
the number of years of experience you have in each mandatory requirement.
Brief Company Profile:
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For over eighteen years, TLW, a leading Canadian-based IT, e-Consulting and
Placement Services Company in Toronto, continues to be a preferred supplier
for numerous organizations in the public and private sectors since its
inception in 1985. Through stringent qualification standards established by
our clients, in the areas of both our projects performance and financial
stability assessment, we have been a pre-approved vendor for the Government
of Ontario since 1997, the Government of Canada and the United Nations
Headquarters since 2001, the Government of Nova Scotia, the City of
Edmonton, the Toronto District School Board, and various international
organizations around the globe throughout 2002. In early 2003, we have been
pre-approved with other international institutions, and have registered with
the Governments of New Brunswick and British Columbia. Recently in April
2003, we participated in a United Nations mission to Tunisia, contributing
to the National Health Information System Project of the World Bank. To
date, we have numerous project and placement profiles for reference and
well above 10,000 IT professionals covering all skill sets registered in our
ever-growing network of resources. In essence, TLW provides all roles and
services all platforms to a wide spectrum of applications. As well, a
September 2002 Business Information Report compiled by Dun & Bradstreet is a
further testimonial to both our financial healthiness and sound payment
trends.
T.L.W. Enterprise Inc.
Human Resources Division
255 Duncan Mill Road, Suite 312
Toronto, Ontario M3B 3H9 Canada
E-mail: 
h...@tlwenterprise.com
     Fax: 
416.510.8993
     Tel: 
416.510.3011
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