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• Job Essential Function 1
  Percent of Time: 65%
   
  PROGRAMMING AND DEVELOPMENT:
  
  Develop and enhance large-scale Web-based user-centered instructional and/or academic technology applications. These applications are developed for a wide range of users including: UCI faculty, staff, or students. Plan, design, code, test, implement, and maintain HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP with emphasis on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) technologies. Projects include enhancing or fixing an existing service and developing new tools in a complex and highly integrated development environment within a multi-server platform.  This includes commenting and documenting programming codes.
  
  Design and troubleshoot advanced database solutions. Integrate and securely connect to other database information servers within NACS or UCI as necessary. Implement relational database programming solutions to retrieve and store information in a Web development environment. Apply Object Orientated principles when designing tools as needed.
  
  Collect and contribute ideas for new services and technologies useful to NACS’s AWT group in the areas of instructional/academic application programming. Research and evaluate open source and commercial university online applications. The enterprise Web applications include: Course Management Systems, Academic Personnel Applications (such as online faculty recruitment), or similar large scale online services. Incorporate (install and customize) already existing open source or proprietary applications.
  
  Keep current on Internet-based application development processes, as well as maintain currency on WWW technologies.
  
  Job Essential Function 2
  Percent of Time: 20%
  
  USER SUPPORT & TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION:
  
  User Support & Training: Provide phone support, one-on-one support, or group training on tools and services offered by AWT group to faculty, staff, and students. Act as technical resource to the AWT primary support staff and as the back up to provide end-users support as necessary.
  
  Coordinate pilot testing of newly developed or experimental tools with group of volunteer clients (faculty, staff, and students). Work closely with clients in seeking feedback on various aspects of AWT’s applications. Participate, review, or conduct surveys of tool usefulness to improve current offerings. Keep clients informed about changes, improvements, disclosure of service, and security violations.
  
  Design and teach presentations or workshops for faculty, staff, and students on AWT applications or technical aspects of use of information technology in academic environment.
  
  Maintain currency in existing campus solutions to common Web-based technology needs.  Advise users. as well as NACS and other support staff, on options, policies, and technical issues with regard to same.  Maintain expertise and advise users and support staff on effective uses of Web technologies and resources with particular emphasis on university environment.
  
  Documentation:     Produce and maintain software design documents, requirement specifications, integration plans used by other AWT programmers. Develop and maintain tools and/or documents for support staff to use for troubleshooting.
  
  Review and comment on AWT’s newly developed news letters, user guides, and help documents (for both students and faculty) as needed.
  
  Job Essential Function 3
  Percent of Time: 15%
  
  WEB INTERFACE DESIGN & USABILITY:
  
  Develop and implement design specification documents compliant with AWT project processes. Interview users for requirements and conduct user testing. Create user interaction diagrams representing anticipated user behavior. Develop use cases and user scenarios for development and quality assurance testing. Design interfaces and behavior modules for Web-based applications.
  
  Document processes utilizing diagramming software and/or graphics software. Implement UML (Unified Modeling Language) or comparable modeling solutions. Present user interface and interaction diagrams to the Web development team for collaborative consideration.
  
  Maintain currency in existing compliance issues related to accessibility, usability and Web standards.
  
  Other duties as assigned.
  
  Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
   
  
• REQUIRED:
  
  Expanded knowledge and experience of the following programming/markup/modeling/scripting languages: PHP, HTML/XHTML, XML, UML, CSS, and JavaScript necessary to manage fast growing enterprise Web applications.

  Experience programming in Apache Web server environment.

  Knowledge and experience with network-based information distribution and retrieval tools and systems such as FTP, secure telnet, HTTP, and (especially) World Wide Web (client and server side) as well as the protocols and standards they deploy.

  Strong ability to design, write, test, and debug computer programs, command language scripts, application control files; experience in same.

  Knowledge and experience with SQL database design and implementation (with emphasis on MySQL).

  Knowledge of common microcomputer electronic mail packages, mail routing, and attachment encoding.

  Knowledge of the network-based software environment: client/server concepts, distributed file systems.

  Ability to integrate services of other campus units with different technologies and configurations seamlessly within NACS.

  Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

  Excellent consulting skills including: excellent rapport with and ability to effectively help faculty, students, and staff whether they are beginning, intermediate, or advanced computer users.

  Excellent communication skills (written and oral) including: ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical people (such as team members, management, users).  Excellent skill in writing concise, understandable, technical, and non-technical documentation.

  Ability to work independently, keeping track of a number of continuing problems, requests, and projects.

  Ability to maintain a positive attitude and contribute both as an individual and a team member to achieve the goals of the department.

  Ability to work effectively in a highly interactive team environment consisting of management, project manager, quality assurance, web developers, end user support, or other cross-functional team members.

  Knowledge and Experience working with sensible data and applications.

  Adhering to good project management practices; and, the ability to work well in team and project environments.
  
  Experience in building user interface for online applications.
  
  Experience with diagramming Software such as OmniGraffle, Visio and/or utilizing graphics software such as Fireworks, Gimp or Photoshop or similar software.

• DESIRED:

Broad knowledge of wide range of teaching and learning computing applications as well as administrative applications used within an academic setting.

Familiarity with the academic process, and the roles and processes involved in University environment.

Familiarity with JAVA programming.

Familiarity with modifying or creating CGI –compliant code or Perl scripts.

Particular knowledge of Java based Portal applications, complex Java programming, uPortal technology, importing open source applications.

Ability to chair and/or lead technical meetings, campus-wide committees, or technical teams.

Expertise and experience in requirements and persona/user scenario development, site navigation and application design, information architecture, user interface design, usability testing, and other aspects of user-centered development.

Below are general guidelines on the position's physical, mental, and environmental working conditions.
In accordance with applicable state and federal law, UCI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants
with disabilities upon request.  For more information, please contact Human Resources at (949) 824-5210.
 
Bend: Occasionally
Squat: Occasionally
Crawl: Occasionally
Climb: Occasionally
Kneel: Occasionally
Handle Objects: Frequently
Push/Pull: Occasionally
Reach Above Shoulder Level: Occasionally
Sit: Frequently
Stand: Occasionally
Walk: Occasionally
Use Fine Finger Movements: Frequently
Carry/Lift Loads up to 25 Pounds: Occasionally
Carry/lift loads between 25-50 lbs: N/A
Carry/Lift Loads over 50 Pounds: N/A
Read/Comprehend: Constantly
Write: Constantly
Perform Calculations: Constantly
Communicate Orally: Constantly
Reason and Analyze: Constantly
Chemical/Biological Agent: N/A
Construction Activities: Occasionally
Contact with Water/Liquids: N/A
Drive Motorized Equipment: Occasionally
Confined Spaces: Occasionally
Elevated Work Location: N/A
Radioactive Materials: N/A
Temperature Variations: N/A
Gas System: N/A

Other Working Conditions: In an emergency situation, after hour call, or during a planned system outage the incumbent’s availability is required for off-hours system troubleshooting and any necessary repair to assure services supported are up and working.