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Internships - Media Design & Web Development

Are you seeking an opportunity to enhance your creative skills, gain valuable experience, and earn extra income all at the same time? Then one of these internship opportunities with First Aid Financial Consultants may be for you.

1. Media Design - Qualifications

• Exceptional creative skills
• Proficiency in the use of Adobe Creative Suite 6 (primarily Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign and Encore) and Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Completed a Bachelor's degree (or entering final year) in Visual Arts/Graphic Arts
• Experience working with NCU Media Group would be an asset

2. Web Development - Qualifications

• Excellent analytical skills
• Comprehensive knowledge of databases, servers, operating systems, animation, graphics, networking

Training in:

• HTML, XML, XHTML, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, ASP and PHP
• SQL and MySQL databases
• TSL, CSS and SSL security technologies

To apply to either of these positions, please send your resume along with work samples to resumes@ncu.edu.jm with the subject line FAF - Media Design or FAF - Web Development no later than Thursday, 10th April 2014.

Job Vacancy: PROGRAMMER/SYSTEM ANALYST

Stewart's Hardware and Home Centre, a market leader in the hardware industry, seeks to identify suitable qualified persons to fill the following position at their May Pen location:

PROGRAMMER/SYSTEM ANALYST

Qualification: 
B.Sc. Computer Science, Information Science or equivalent and meet the experience requirements or the equivalent documented combination of training and experience.

Skills:

• Programming in the following languages: ASP.NET, C#.NET,VB.NET, CSS, XHTML, PHP
• Familiarity with networking protocols such as TCP/IP.
• Comfortable with low-level hardware, and follows scientific methods for testing and documentation of results.

Desirable competencies:

• Familiarity with code development, test, and configuration management tools.
• Experience with Crystal Reports, Structured Query Language (SQL), 
• Experience with scripting in JavaScript, JQuery, and Perl is a plus.
• Experience with XML and XML schemas a plus.
• Experience with Point of Sale Applications is a plus

Core responsibilities:

• Performing development, integration, test, and documentation duties to ensure proper operation of hardware and software platforms.
• Integrate a wide variety of applications from various sources, integrate and ensure they meet performance standards for stability and resource utilization.
• Develop software as necessary to integrate between components, perform new capabilities, and to facilitate testing.
• Adhere to accepted standards for development, including writing unit tests which provide a high percentage of code overage, participating in peer code reviews, conducting design reviews, and generating test plans to ensure maximum stability and quality of code.

How to apply:
Interested and qualified persons should submit their applications to resumes@ncu.edu.jm with the subject line Stewarts – job title no later than Wednesday, 16th April 2014.

Please note that preference will be given to qualified persons who reside in May Pen or surrounding areas.