About In The Round
In The Round is a multimedia services company based in Canton, Ohio that integrates the creative arts, cutting-edge technologies and effective communication practices. Our three core divisions—Systems Services, Online Services and Content Creation—offer comprehensive multimedia communications solutions from equipment infrastructure to message development and content creation.
While ITR's clients span a range of sizes, industries, and locations, we are one of the few production organizations in our field that specializes in working with unique needs and challenges of arts-based, faith-based, and community organizations. We dedicate over 50% of our capacity each year to helping these non-profits communicate their compelling messages with enterprise quality, but at a budget that they can afford.
As a small business, ITR's work style is a fast-paced, flexible, swat-team approach with great variety and challenges. Our employees are both technically skilled and artistically inclined individuals who enjoy working and interacting in a creative environment with a high level of autonomy and direct input. Individuals who succeed at ITR typically:
In The Round also runs an active internship program, providing hands-on experience to top communications and computer science students from area universities. They work side-by-side with our professional staff, providing us an opportunity to invest in the next generation of production professionals.
About The Position
Our online services area has grown rapidly in the last few years. As such, we are looking to add a second full-time lead developer in addition to the part-time and freelance members of our team. While this individual will have a variety of responsibilities, key areas of focus could include:
In The Round is a multimedia services company based in Canton, Ohio that integrates the creative arts, cutting-edge technologies and effective communication practices. Our three core divisions—Systems Services, Online Services and Content Creation—offer comprehensive multimedia communications solutions from equipment infrastructure to message development and content creation.
While ITR's clients span a range of sizes, industries, and locations, we are one of the few production organizations in our field that specializes in working with unique needs and challenges of arts-based, faith-based, and community organizations. We dedicate over 50% of our capacity each year to helping these non-profits communicate their compelling messages with enterprise quality, but at a budget that they can afford.
As a small business, ITR's work style is a fast-paced, flexible, swat-team approach with great variety and challenges. Our employees are both technically skilled and artistically inclined individuals who enjoy working and interacting in a creative environment with a high level of autonomy and direct input. Individuals who succeed at ITR typically:
- Seek to be influential in the trajectory and growth of a quickly expanding small business
- Desire to see concrete results of the impact of their work
- Excel in an informal, flexible work environment
- Have a high level of independence and responsibility while being able to work within, form, and lead small project teams as necessary
- Have a strong interest in finding ways to provide high-quality services in cost-effective ways to arts-based, faith-based, and community non-profits
In The Round also runs an active internship program, providing hands-on experience to top communications and computer science students from area universities. They work side-by-side with our professional staff, providing us an opportunity to invest in the next generation of production professionals.
About The Position
Our online services area has grown rapidly in the last few years. As such, we are looking to add a second full-time lead developer in addition to the part-time and freelance members of our team. While this individual will have a variety of responsibilities, key areas of focus could include:
- The continuing development of ITR’s content management system (used by many of our clients)
- The design, development, execution, and maintenance of programming, scripting, and databases dynamic web-based projects including
- Content Management Systems
- E-commerce and secure transaction systems
- Web-based software applications
- The design, development, execution and maintenance of computer programming and databases for internal process tools
- Creation, maintenance and management of online client and ITR content
- Shared systems administration duties of internal network and public web servers (Linux/Apache and Windows/IIS)
- Development of company standards, best practices, and documentation as relates to the creation and execution of the above
We do a great deal of work in and have a general preference for standards-based and open source technologies but also work in proprietary technologies at the client's request. Knowledge of any of the following technologies or standards is advantageous:
Individuals interested in this position should email a current resume to info@intheround.com or call the office at 330.430.9096. Since this is a new position, it is available to be filled immediately, preferably in August. A later start date may be considered for the right candidate if there are mitigating circumstances.
- HTML/XHTML
- JavaScript
- CSS (Intermediate to Expert)
- XML/RSS
- AJAX/JSON
- PHP 4 & 5 (Intermediate to Expert)
- Smarty (for PHP) or other templating systems
- SQL - particularly MySQL 4 & 5 (Intermediate to Expert)
- ASP/.NET
- Cache/CSP
- Section 508 site design compliance
- Object oriented programming
- UML
- Familiarity with open source development world
- Administration of Windows/IIS and/or Linux/Apache
Individuals interested in this position should email a current resume to info@intheround.com or call the office at 330.430.9096. Since this is a new position, it is available to be filled immediately, preferably in August. A later start date may be considered for the right candidate if there are mitigating circumstances.