November DrupalGroups@Yale Meetup

Hi Nancy. I was sorry to miss the October meetup (I was in Japan), but I wanted to try to make the one in November. Could you confirm the time (11:00-13:00 UTC?) and location? Thanks. Daniel

We have a great JOB offer, See below:

Drupal / PHP Developer for Innovative Social Media, Cutting-Edge Science Collaboration
We are looking for a developer who wants to help us change the way we solve the challenging problems confronting our Oceans. Work with world leaders in technology and research. Outhink Media, a social media incubator located in San Mateo, builds and maintains a number of innovative websites and platforms that promote increased interaction and awareness among specific user communities. Among the most impactful and ambitious of our current projects is a new platform for the ocean scientist community, a site that supports its users in collaborating on important ocean-oriented research, and sharing of large libraries of high-value media content. Working with the University of California, Santa Barbara.
We are looking for a Drupal Developer to be responsible for enhancing, upgrading, maintaining, and building our Drupal sites, including developing modules to provide services and additional functionality. The candidate must have experience programming client/server tools in PHP, and be familiar with SQL database integration. Drupal experience is a must.
Responsibilities Include:
• Design and develop software using Drupal and PHP to fulfill technical and functional requirements
• Create and maintain server back-end scripts/tools using PHP, SQL and other programming languages
• Evaluate and deploy Drupal modules with an understanding of how they may interact with other modules
• Develop Drupal modules that integrate or layer on top of existing module, as needed, with a solid understanding of the framework, coding best-practices
• Continually explore and leverage Drupal resources and community
• Integrate back-end services with Drupal and PHP based front ends
• Interact with cross-functional teams to ensure complete delivery of web applications
• Interact with product owner(s) to ensure accurate requirements fulfillment
• Complete development and integration of API tasks on time
• Theme content to present and accept information in an ordered, uncluttered, visually appealing style
• Design user interaction and presentation of information to address ease of use and accessibility

Skills Required:
• 5+ years of experience in Web application development with 2+ years of experience in Drupal application development
• Demonstrable Drupal 6.x customization (module development, custom code, theming, etc.)
Strong knowledge of web development using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Strong technical skills in PHP, Drupal, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Knowledge of Web application security considerations
• Familiarity with AJAX techniques and modern JavaScript libraries, including JQuery
• Good understanding of relational databases/MySQL.
• Strong user skills in various operating systems
• Linux web server administration is a plus
Experience with software development management tools
• Familiarity with Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Strong written and verbal communications skills

Please send resumes to nicole@outhink.com