Status:  Accepting aplications through Closing Date listed herein.

POSITION OPENING:  Senior Application Programmer: HTML 5 Development Specialist

DEPARTMENT:  Center for Educational Technologies® (CET)

DATE:  January  17, 2013

POSITION:   Full-time

FLSA STATUS:  Exempt (Administrative)   

CLOSING DATE:   February 11, 2013

POSITION SUMMARY:  The Senior Application Developer will conduct and manage CyGaMEs programming efforts in migrating Selene II from Flash/Flex to HTML5.  CyGaMEs is a nationally recognized, awarded, and cutting-edge approach to instructional game design and embedded assessment currently conducting research using its instructional game Selene: A Lunar Construction GaME (version II, visit http://selene.cet.edu for more information).  The senior application HTML5 developer will program, test, and deploy the game and interstitial components as HTML5 to interface with the existing Selene II middleware and database; follow industry standard procedures for traceability, testing, development, deployment (as determined by the senior application programmer) including documentation; and advise, design, develop, deploy, and test any required new components or projects.  This position will end with the conclusion of NSF funding CyGaMEs on August 31, 2013.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, game design and development, or related field including databases plus HTML5 expertise and four (4) or more years’ experience in the field designing, testing, and deploying complex Flash/Flex, HTML5, and/or related applications and databases as well as their user interfaces.  (or)  Bachelor’s degree with coursework in programming, game design and development, or related field plus HTML5 experience and four (4) or more years’ experience in the field designing, testing, and deploying complex Flash/Flex, HTML5, and/or related applications and databases as well as their user interfaces.  Master’s degree preferred.
• Documented, extensive experience developing using HTML5, MS SQL
• Knowledge of PHP and .Net and sound coding practices
• Documentation skills and practice
• Experience unit testing and JavaScript with prototyping
• Preferred qualifications include documented success migrating Flash/Flex (especially database-driven games) to HTML5, degrees and/or commensurate industry experience in game design and development, coursework in game development, design, and/or HTML5 and mobile apps, expertise with game engines, Flash/Flex expertise, and facility with IOS, Android, Visual Studio 2012, and .Net.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Migrates the existing CyGaMEs Selene Flash/Flex game, front and back end components, and any other components as required to HTML5, interfacing with the existing middleware and database.  
• Follows all specifications and team lead(s) without deviation.  (Developed product must be exact migration of existing product:  gameplay, data, resources).
• Applies independent judgment, discretion and analysis in coordinating, developing and designing computerized information systems solutions for the migration
• Defines and develops practical information system specifications utilizing pseudo-code, flowcharts, block diagrams, charts and layouts for solutions to problems.
• Confers with project PI, senior application programmer, and end users and studies effectiveness of systems flow, data usage and manual or automated processes to identify ineffective or inefficient systems.
• Maintains awareness of state-of-the-art HTML5 and mobile application development tools, programming techniques, problem solving techniques and computing equipment.
• Participates in certain aspects of end user consulting, systems analysis, general systems design, vendor contracts and detail systems design.
• Designs and implements code to develop software that will advance the project to its goals.
• Meets deliverables according to specifications within milestone and deliverable deadlines.
• Manages, for self and any staff or students assigned to support CyGaMEs HTML5, project product development, testing, or deployment.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:  Application material must include:
• Letter of application describing your relevant experience
• Current resume
• Contact information for three to five references to:

   Wheeling Jesuit University
   Director of Human Resources       or         jobs@wju.edu
   316 Washington Avenue
   Wheeling WV 26003

AS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER, WE ENCOURAGE APPLICATIONS FROM QUALIFIED VIETNAM ERA VETERANS, DISABLED INDIVIDUALS, MINORITIES, AND WOMEN