We seek a curious individual with deep technical roots who can strategize, scope, and manage teams of developers (partner firms by platform). This role is as much about dreaming up new solutions as it is about getting them done. We seek a Senior Design Technologist.
In our process the design technologist’s role begins at project inception. She participates in client discussions gathering information and providing references to current and leading edge technologies that may benefit the client’s requirements. She references new trends, hot topics, and examples used by like and non-like competitors. Once requirements are gathered, she works with the project team as an innovator and strategist representing concepts through the lense of technology. She is then responsible for determining the scope and resources to be used to implement the solution. Tanagram is not a programming shop, we work with partners to provide the technology solutions our clients need. The design technologist is responsible for our “stable” and insuring we work with the very best partners. While she is not a project manager, the design technologist is responsible for the technology solution and spends a portion of her day talking to the development teams and making sure everything is on track. She has a good understanding of analytics software, and is responsible for setting up the specified monitoring programs.
Here is a link to the official role description.
Please note this is primarily a technologist position. We are looking for someone with 10+ years of programming experience. Please do not apply if you do not have the required experience.
Please send all inquiries to careers@tanagram.com
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on August 6, 2009
Maybe I’ve been thinking about this topic because of the recent arrival of my twin sons Pascal and Thibault, but it seems to me we are about to take the next evolutionary step in the digital world with regards to replication. Digital replication, creation, or programming, has traditionally had a steep entry curve, requiring very smart people with very specific skills to create anything of value. Today games like Spore™ and LittleBigPlanet™ are replacing yesterday’s object oriented programming languages and are making online content creation accessible to a much larger audience. Virtual worlds like World of Warcraft™, Second Life™, and even the upcoming Diablo III MMORPG offer trading and even sale of your creations for fun or profit. Inworld artifact and content creation doesn’t represent the end, the next-generation replicator will allow users to create self-sustaining, independent objects that can exist outside (outworld) the domain of their originating world. These objects will be able to easily travel between devices (including mobile platforms) in ways that are relevant to their creator. Perhaps these objects themselves will contain within themselves the ability to replicate, perhaps even evolve?
Post back if you’ve already seen this in the wild and have a great weekend!
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on August 8, 2008
Congratulations Chicago 2016 and the City of Chicago for the launch of the World Sport Chicago community site. A gift from us (identity, design, user interface programming) and Geneca (Drupal implementation and suave project manager) to the city of Chicago, we can’t help being excited by their mission to provide Chicago youth access to Olympic Athletics. We’re helping inspire champions for 2016!
The site is architecture simple now but this is only the first phase of development, much more is in the works. Stay tuned!
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on July 19, 2007
International AEP firm CUH2A partnered with us to create a web site that represents the innovation and passionate thinking of their firm. Collaboratively we developed a site that I like to describe as a beautiful harmonic tag cloud. While I’m hoping this site will gain recognition in the design community for its unique interaction and elegant presentation, I’m writing this post to talk about some of the things that are happening behind the scenes that make this site truly cutting edge. Great technology is invisible and this site has a lot of invisibles to talk about.
- It’s pretty obvious that the site is an Adobe Flash™ experience, but what is unique is that the Flash programming is pulling HTML and XML from a really cool .Net CMS called Sitecore. We’re big fans of this product. It’s solid, scalable, and integrates well with any .Net environment. This is one of those CMS systems where the content editors navigate and edit by browsing the actual site, so there’s very little CMS interface that needs to be learned. We’re big fans.
- Because the entire site is actually HTML / XML it is fully text browser viewable and therefore search engine friendly.
- There is only one site, no mirror sites to worry about. Links from search engines load right up in the Flash Player. These days we’re convinced Flash is ubiquitous so the site checks for the plugin and attempts to install it if it’s missing or an older version.
- Individual pages can be bookmarked. We find this is often a deal breaker when considering programming a Flash-only site. Especially a site that catalogs hundreds of client projects.
- Back and Next buttons on the web browser work as expected. How cool is that?
- The scrollwheel is supported on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.
- And check out how project detail pages (or any content page for that matter) print. Beyond the beautiful print layout, having seamless integration between the Flash interface and the browser’s print function is pretty cool.
I want to give kudos where they are due; Lance Rutter, Glenn Blicharz, Timothy Mills, Mike Bingaman, Alex Lemanski, Nate Striedinger, and Jeff Vandenbussche all did a fantastic job with the innovative development of this application. Nice work guys!
Posted by Joseph Juhnke on June 11, 2007
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