Aetea Information Technology is searching for a Senior Software Engineer/MongoDB Expert for their client in Philadelphia, PA. Qualifications for the position include: “Hands-on experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL technologies. Enterprise search such as Lucene/SOLR. Amazon cloud computing environment. Software build and continuous integration technologies such as Ant, Maven, CVS, SVN, GIT, CruiseControl, Hudson. Full understanding of Test Driven Development concepts and testing frameworks (JUnit, Selenium/Watir, etc.)” Read more

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Concurrent Technologies is searching for a Knowledge Engineer in Johnstown, PA. According to the post, this position is “Responsible for the development of knowledge models, ontologies, heuristics, and scenario data for use in semantic software solutions. These solutions require a significant understanding and formalization of subject matter domains to create the knowledge models that power these systems. The person chosen for this position will work with subject matter experts and perform online research to create detailed ontologies and knowledge models based on these domains. The individual may be required to analyze data for patterns to develop models and heuristics that describe the data.” Read more

The Commonwealth Workforce Development System of Pennsylvania is looking for a Web Technology Manager in Pittsburgh. According to the post, “This person will lead a small team of web developers and web technical staff to maintain current web capabilities and incrementally improve the web infrastructure, web processes and core capabilities required to support the Web Communications Group (WCG) and outreach. Provides support for the technical infrastructure for external web presence as well as the  intranet and related supporting technologies.” Read more

Blue Wolf is looking for an RDF Senior Software Engineer in Philadelphia, PA. Qualifications for the position include: “Working understanding of the software development lifecycle including design, coding, testing and delivery. Experience working on agile development teams. Experience in systems analysis, design and a solid understanding of development, quality assurance and integration methodologies. Demonstrated experience with successful execution of enterprise scale commercial software delivery. Java web developer skills (Servlets, JSPs, JNDI, XML config). Java application servers such as Tomcat or Websphere and REST web services. Hands-on experience with software build and continuous integration technologies (e.g. Ant, Maven, CVS, SVN, GIT, CruiseControl, Hudson etc.)” Read more

The Bosch Research and Technology Center is looking for a Research Engineer – Internet Technologies in Pittsburgh, PA. Responsibilities of the position include: “Identify new trends in internet technologies and evaluate their significance for BOSCH. Adapt and develop IT technologies to build up new internet enabled products and services for BOSCH. Work with BOSCH business units to elicit application- and domain-specific requirements and trends as well as develop and transfer technical solutions. Actively participate in projects underway at US and international Bosch locations.” Read more

A2c consulting is searching for a Semantic Web Integration Engineer in Philadelphia, PA. The position calls for the following qualifications: “Experience working on agile development teams. Demonstrated experience with successful execution of enterprise scale commercial software delivery. Java web developer skills (Servlets, JSPs, JNDI, XML config). Java application servers such as Tomcat or Websphere and REST web services. Hands-on experience with software build and continuous integration technologies (e.g. Ant, Maven, CVS, SVN, GIT, CruiseControl, Hudson etc.)” Read more

Concurrent Technologies is looking for a Knowledge Engineer in Johnstown, PA. According to the post, this position is “responsible for the development of knowledge models, ontologies, heuristics, and scenario data for use in semantic software solutions. These solutions require a significant understanding and formalization of subject matter domains to create the knowledge models that power these systems. The person chosen for this position will work with subject matter experts and perform online research to create detailed ontologies and knowledge models based on these domains.” Read more

Maestro Technologies is seeking a Research Engineer of Internet Technologies in Pittsburgh, PA. Responsibilities of the position include, “Identify new trends in internet technologies and evaluate their significance. Adapt and develop IT technologies to build up new internet enabled products and services. Work with business units to elicit application- and domain-specific requirements and trends as well as develop and transfer technical solutions. Actively participate in projects underway at US and international locations.” The position also requires expertise in two or more of the following: “Service oriented computing and middleware technologies, cloud computing platform and service deployment, semantic technologies, context aware computing, mobile computing for IoT, [and] data mining.” Read more

A new semantic start-up, Careerimp is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Pittsburgh, PA: “We code in Ruby on Rails and jQuery. Let it be known: we are not dabblers. We expect you to have a very strong foundation in programming and several projects behind you in developing web software. You should be someone who hates bugs to be found in your code, so you test it like crazy before deploying it. You style your own features with a usability designer’s assistance so you ought to have a good eye for aesthetics. You think in graphs and algorithms, and are not afraid of complexity. You are bubbling with feature ideas. You are disciplined in development and can bring some of that into our development culture.

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Executive Summary

The non-obvious ‘second use’ of Excel is that of a universal data recycling bin for Organisational ‘reports’ and ‘data dumps’. Examples exist everywhere; the main reason is that it is just so convenient to do – everyone is an Excel expert when it comes to tidying up, sorting and generally asking questions that can be answered from within any one single spreadsheet. But asking questions that can only be answered by connecting many spreadsheets together is harder to achieve technically and yet the payoff can be large.

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