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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Own and manage the internal IT customer support process, and externally where appropriate. Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. We make sure they're damn good and have experience not only as developers, but also dealing with customers.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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Surveys indicate that many customers are more likely to visit your website with a smartphone. When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. AJAX-savvy media queries? But that’s me.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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On a more serious note, Gordon has a laundry list of founder qualities or experiences that will pique his curiosity: “Have a resume I envy and admire; make a significant contribution at a company I am fascinated by; write a great book or make a great game or TV show; [develop] significant software engineering experience and/or education.&#

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand.