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January 29, 2010

Please email Patrick Ryan direct: pryan@lucruminc.com for additional details

 Do you like warm temperatures,  gambling and shows? Las Vegas may be your new beginning!  The following positions are 3 month contract to hire opportunities in Las Vegas!!!!

Senior Software Engineer 

The Senior Software Engineer position is responsible for developing software for electronic gaming device and related products as directed as part of a team. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Develops game or core machine software, including design, coding, testing and documentation to specified standards.
  • Produces project schedules and completes project on time within budget.
  • Ensures adequate testing of software, including preparing test data, test procedure and debug programs.
  • Conducts independent research and analysis with minimum supervision from software manager.
  • Prepares written report as required.
  • May provide work direction, training, assist in setting goals for subordinate team members.
  • Other duties as assigned.

 QUALIFICATIONS: 

Education:  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or its equivalent.

Experience:  Requires a minimum of five years of experience in software engineering and/or programming.

Demonstrated experience in coding in C and C++.  Experience with UNIX/Linux system programming, network programming and low level device driver programming required.  Experience with OOA/D methodologies required.

Skills, knowledge, and qualifications:

  • Experience with Agile Scrum methodologies will be a plus.
  • Prior experience in the gaming industry will be a plus.
  • Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Must be able to read, write, speak and understand English. 
  • Must be able to work independently and be team oriented. 

This position may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.

Sr. Graphic Artist

We are an Australian-owned leading global entertainment company currently seeking an Artist/Illustrator to join our team-oriented group of creatives and software experts. As a senior artist in the team, you’ll conceptualize, design and develop quality graphics for new games and connect quickly and confidently with management.

A natural leader with sophisticated conceptual skills, you’ll come prepared to mentor junior staff and adeptly integrate graphics packages into an animation and software systems. You’ll come to us with relevant qualifications and significant professional graphic design experience, and strong skills in traditional and computer drawing, and layout and finishing.

This is a rare opportunity to showcase your talents as you produce interesting and varied work using cutting edge tools and technology. You’ll find great satisfaction in leading junior team members by example and developing graphics that will be released onto the international market.

Sr. Graphics Animator

You will play a key role in creating visual content. You will also be integral to the design process, from discussing the brief, right through to visualizing the concept and producing the finished product.

You will need to be a confident communicator who can discuss concepts with a wide range of people at all levels. As you will have a high level of input during frequent briefings and creative meetings. What we will look for in you is a tertiary qualification in either graphic, illustration, animation or industrial design. You will also need strong skills in both Photoshop and Illustrator and be an expert in either flash, TV Pain or 3D Studio Max. Equally important will be your confidence to design your own characters, create animation and come up with original concepts.

  • Develops characters and logos and reel symbols for gaming devices.
  • Strong drawing skills.
  • Maya, 3DStudioMax, Aftereffects knowledge a must.
  • Portfolio required.
  • Minimum of 8 years experience in drawing, good composition, graphical animation design, in computer art. 
  • Minimum 5 years experience in the gaming industry preferred.
  • Associates degree and/or vocational certification in video graphics or equivalent.

This is your chance to take on an interesting role in a vibrant and creative collaborative team environment, where you will be encouraged to maximize your creative input.

Sr. Game Mathematical Designer

We’re currently on the lookout for Sr. Game Designers to develop concepts and formulas for high-quality games that will be released on the global market.

Combining your creativity with your mathematical abilities, you’ll design new gaming concepts and follow through with the associated specifications, algorithms and combination sheets. A personable team player you will work closely with designers, artist and software engineers to brainstorm, refine, communicate and test-drive your concepts.

What we will look for in you is games design experience and leadership qualities. You will also need a degree in mathematics or similar, and the capacity to produce games on both new existing platforms. An understanding of programming in C would be advantageous.

  • Exceptional understanding of mathematical concepts in gaming.
  • Ability to create game concepts and original math models.                                                                  
  • Works with other game designers in conducting and verifying mathematic calculations.
  • Programming skills a plus.
  •  Minimum of 6 years experience in slot game design and a minimum of 3 years of Stepper game design.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering

This role offers you an excellent opportunity to see your designs released around the world. You can look forward to challenging leadership responsibilities and the chance to collaborate with some of the industry’s finest designers.

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The Future of Business Intelligence

January 25, 2010

January 2010

January 2010 Cover

Have you heard of Technology First?  Technology First is a Dayton, Ohio  based industry-led, industry-driven trade association dedicated to:

  • Proactively Representing IT in the Region
  • Increasing understanding of Technology First and its value
  • Recognizing and promoting our membership
  • Highlighting niche technology companies

Technology First looks to strengthen technology thought leadership by inspiring innovation, focusing on new ideas and best practices, presenting leading edge industry information that is both strategic to business and technical folks.  They also look to inspire volunteer leadership by encouraging stronger member participation which involves more working committees and develops programming to best meet industry needs.  Additionally, they look to engage in conversations with technology community by leveraging interactive social media.

I was asked to prepare an article on the Future of Business Intelligence.  Imagine my surprise when that article was selected as their cover story this month!  Click here to read.  I’d love to get your thoughts.

Have a great week!

- Jodie

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We Do BI Faster… Part 2

December 8, 2009

It’s been my experience that BI projects fail when the technical team fails to understand the urgency that exists with their customers.  Failure also comes in the form of not delivering what was needed to answer the business questions or delivering in a format that doesn’t fit into the day-to-day way that the Customer does his/her job.

My son’s day-to-day life is impacted by data points.  One of my sons has Type 1 Diabetes.  It’s a pain to manage.  There are numbers EVERY day!!!  Right now he is tied to a Continuous Glucose Sensor and an insulin pump.  (When I say tied…I’m not kidding…it’s really attached…by a 23” tube…24×7.)  We receive data points every 5 minutes.  On his pump, I can see a display that tells me what his BG is right now.  It allows me to make decisions right now.  What it does not tell me is how past decisions have impacted the current BG.  It doesn’t tell me how actions I take now will impact future BG.  I use my “gut” to determine what to do when his BG is high and requires insulin or low and requires some sugar.  There are some pre-programmed “rules” that help me to make my decisions (e.g. it takes 1 unit of insulin to drop his BG 90 “points”).  Displaying these data points on my son’s pump is great if he’s the only one making decisions.  However, his dad, me, our doctor, my son’s teachers…all of us need to see the data to make the right decisions.  More importantly, we need to see the historical data to understand the impact of past decisions.  A tool does exist from his pump company that allows me to upload the data and view pretty graphs in PDF reports.  But the data keeps changing…every 5 minutes…Isn’t the same true in business?

At a grocer…a shopper decides to buy Crest toothpaste and not Colgate (no offense to Colgate…but I’m in a P&G town).  The shopper does this despite being sent oodles of coupons for Colgate.  What does that data point tell me?  Should I stop sending Colgate coupons to that shopper?  If I start sending Crest coupons can I guarantee that the shopper will come back the next time they need Crest?  Where will that decision get made?  Where should the BI tool be?

At a utility company…right now, I get my bill at the end of the month and I pay it.  I’ve set my thermostat back to 67 in the Winter and 74 in the Summer.  I’ve seen a decrease in my bill over the last 12 months since I started doing this.  But last night was COLD!!!  I was so cold that I couldn’t sleep.  What’s the impact of turning up my thermostat to 72 while I sleep?  If the utility company decides to build me a BI app that sits on my PC and prints for me really pretty graphs, it does me no good when I’m lying in bed and want to make a decision on if it’s worth it to turn up the heat.

For a sales guy/gal…I enter all of my contact info in Salesforce.com.  I have to send out my forecast to my boss, typically in Excel.  Should the IT team give me Business Objects for me to see my past customer sales?  What about Cognos?

When I design BI solutions, I try to make sure that the solution is delivered in a tool that I need and that makes sense to me.  I don’t want my customers to require training just to look at their data.  The tool should be easy for me, cuz analyzing the data is HARD!!!  What are you giving your customers for data analysis?  Is it a tool that’s easy for you to build?  Or easy for them to see the data in the format that they need?

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