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• Operations Manager
• Project Manager
• Education Software Sales Rep
• PHP Developer
• ActionScript 2.0 Developer

Please send your resumé to jobs@xplana.com

Operations Manager    top of page

Job Summary:
Operations Manager to coordinate corporate operations, including finance, accounting, human resources, & administration.   

Requirements:
• Bach. in Business or equiv.
• 2 yrs exp. in project management, including 1 year in IT project management, and 1 year in account management (can be gained concurrently)
• Knowledge of QuickBooks, Maximizer, and SugarCRM. 

Resume to :
Hakan Satiroglu (AB), Xplana, 137 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02115

Project Manager    top of page

Job Summary:
Responsible for defining, planning, tracking and managing custom software development projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost to deliver specified requirements and achieve customer satisfaction.

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Identifies scope of projects; with business development team creates estimates and budgets
• Analyze risk, establish contingency plans, and monitor project for risk events
• Ensure all project requirements and/or objectives are properly documented in statement of work, functional specifications (i.e., use cases, UML diagrams, workflows, etc.), and QA test plans, as appropriate, and that documents are updated as project progresses.
• Identify and help team and stakeholders make project tradeoffs to balance scope, time, and budget
• Tracks and manages project schedules; analyzes actual performance against plan
• Communicates between clients and team members to establish project goals, manage expectations, and to ensure that projects progress smoothly.
• Coordinates with Directors of Development, Production, & Project Management to ensure the successful completion of all projects.
• Manages proposed changes to project parameters
• Monitors quality of project deliverables and ensures project objectives are met
• Manage release process and acceptance of deliverables by clients and stakeholders
• Anticipates problems and resolves them by direct action or escalation to appropriate level.
• Reports status and maintains project records of decisions, issues, action items, and meetings
• Assists Director of Project Management with all Project Management activities for the company.
• Works with Director of Project Management Team to establish the Project Management Office goals.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
• Proficient in project planning, scheduling, tracking, and risk assessment
• Experience in managing multiple projects
• Skills in budgeting data analysis
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal effectively in a team environment
• Understanding and experience with related business and development processes
• Experience with developing software requirements, use cases, and test plans
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in an dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Able to integrate information from multiple sources in order to anticipate issues, come up with solutions, and resolve the problems
• Able to influence individuals at all levels in different departments, including senior executives
• High degree of commitment, flexibility, self-motivation, self-confidence, assertiveness, and high tolerance of ambiguity.
• Experience in managing software development projects to successful release
• Experience with computer-assisted learning a plus

Education & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3 to 5 years of software or web project management experience
• Strong technology skills, including proficient use of Microsoft Office suite including MS Project and Visio
• Familiarity with industry standard software development methodologies and software product life cycle
• CAPM, PMP or similar certification desirable
• Knowledge of Adobe Flash and LAMP technologies a plus

Education Software Sales Rep    top of page

Job Summary:
The Sales Representative (SR) generates revenue growth by utilizing a consultative selling approach in prospective and current education publisher and education provider prospects. The SR is responsible for managing the newly established business relationships in order to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound retention strategies, utilizing strong negotiation efforts to preserve business, and securing contract agreements.

Duties and responsibilities include:
• Establish and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction. Communicate to and work with the Project Managers to resolve unique customer issues.
• Meet and maintain relationships with the top 25 prospective contacts.
• Meet or exceed sales call activity goals for proactive account retention.
• Effectively manage prospects by developing sound marketing plans and maintaining key information in the prospect database.
• Meet or exceed sales call activity goals for new sales.
• Match Xplana Learning’s solutions and services with prospect’s needs by demonstrating knowledge of customers and their competitive environment.
• Effectively use Xplana Learning’s sales productivity software tools.
• Acquire in depth industry and company knowledge in order to prepare complex proposals and make recommendations on product optimization and licensing options.
• Attend trade shows.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required skills & abilities:
• Demonstrated ability to exceed all established sales forecasts and goals.
• Solution and consultative sales training.
• Experience in the education industry important.
• Effective communicator, ensuring that all information conveyed is clear, concise and documented when appropriate.
• Computer proficient, with knowledge of MS Office tools.
• Agile personality. Xplana offers a great working environment, but there will be times of change and a need to “go with the flow.”
• Creative and innovative thinker. Leader with courage to be self-starter. Please email a cover letter, resume and total compensation expectations to sales@xplana.com

Education and Experience:
• College degree or Master’s degree. Business, communications or education degrees would be best suited.

PHP Developer    top of page

Required skills & abilities:
• 2-4 years of deep, full-time PHP experience (knowledge of other scripting languages is highly recommended)
• Detailed understanding of multi-tier web application architecture
• Strong understanding of OOP and some exposure MVC concepts (especially Mojavi)
• Strong understanding of templating engines, especially Smarty
• Knowledge of JavaScript and CSS, especially AJAX
• Intermediate to expert knowledge of Linux/Unix
• Experience with databases
• Positive attitude and willingness to learn new technologies and concepts
• Ability to work effectively in a small team environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Has the “whatever it takes” attitude

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree or higher is required

ActionScript 2.0 Developer    top of page

Required skills & abilities:
• Solid understanding of Actionscript 2.0.
• Understanding of Flash Communication Server/remoting, component development, XML writing and parsing, etc.
• Experience in applying object oriented programming techniques and design patterns.
• Ability to write code from scratch or edit pre-existing code.
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
• Ability to learn new skills quickly.
• Focused self-starter who requires little supervision or direction.
• Ability to deliver against deadlines.
• Excellent teamwork skills.

Please send your resumé to jobs@xplana.com