Medical Laboratory Scientist I

by Irma Moore | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS)

Work locations may rotate in the Minneapolis, MN area

Join our growing team in Minneapolis – Hiring on Day and Evening Shift!

Are you intrigued by the science of the human body?  Curious about state-of-the-art laboratory instrumentation?  Looking to join a Fortune 500 company leading the world in providing diagnostic information services?  Quest Diagnostics is now recruiting for technologist positions ranging from entry level to experienced, with a wide range of benefits and training!

All MLS must be willing to learn phlebotomy skills and perform blood draws

Benefits/Perks: 

• Day 1 Medical/Dental/Vision for FT employees who work 30+ hours 
• 15 PTO days first year
• Paid Holidays
• Annual Bonus Opportunity  
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Variable compensation plan (AIP) bonus
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Blueprint for Wellness
• Tuition Reimbursement for undergraduate and graduate programs for FT employees who work 30+ hours 
• Opportunities for career advancement  
• Training provided! 

Job Responsibilities:

• Follow the laboratory’s procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test result.
• Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same manner as patient specimens.
• Analyze specimens using approved testing procedures.
• Review and release test results.
• Follow CLIA, HIPAA, OSHA, and safety guidelines as described in their respective guidelines.
• Follow the laboratory’s established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory’s established acceptable levels of performance.
• Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered or immediately notify the senior technologist or supervisor.

Qualifications:

Education:
BS in Medical Technology preferred; or BS/BA in Chemistry or Biology, or Associates degree in a Laboratory Science or Medical Technology, or Previously qualified as a Technologist under 42 CFR 493

Work Experience:
1 year Clinical experience (high complexity testing) preferred.

Quest Diagnostics honors our service members and encourages veterans to apply.

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.

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Technical Education Consultant

by Irma Moore | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

The Opportunity

“Seeking a technically sound individual with a prior background in software programming who thrives in educating others. As part of our Education team, you will work closely with our clients to ensure that they are enabled on our software applications:  FICO Platform Capabilities, Blaze Advisor, and Decision Management Platform Streaming. FICO Platform Capabilities include Decisioning, Business Outcome Simulation, Feature Management, Data Flow, Contextual Processing, Visualization, Orchestration, and Building User Interface. This role is high-engagement, high impact, and high-reward as it combines the ability to exercise both technical and pedagogical skills at the same time.“– Sr. Director, Education

What You’ll Contribute

• Training delivery activities include teaching FICO Platform capabilities, Blaze Advisor, and Decision Management Platform Streaming courses domestically and globally, securing all physical resources, and coordinating travel plans with FICO’s clients and FICO implementation team.
• Curriculum development activities to include planning, researching, developing applications, and producing technical training materials for new software products and updated features, including lab exercises, instructional texts, technical reference information, and presentations.
• Work closely with Platform Education Director, Product Management and Product Documentation to develop technical courses that are educational and effective for clients, internal employees, and partners.
• Demonstrate competence and confidence in the planning, design, and management of curriculum development projects and processes, and will contribute directly as author and/or editor, where valuable, appropriate, or required.
• Responsible for classroom setup, network and computer setup, troubleshooting, and interactions with client management. Post-delivery responsibilities include completing detailed trip reports, notification of client issues, and review with appropriate individuals within FICO.

What We’re Seeking

• Proven background in Object Oriented Programming or a degree in information systems, computer science, operations research, statistics, mathematics, physics artificial intelligence (MS preferred).
• Familiarity with Saas and Distributed Programming.
• Excellent in English speaking and writing.
• Skilled presentation, interpersonal, listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to create course preparation plans, conduct independent research, design, code and deliver curriculum.
• Comfortable with travel internationally and domestically 40-70% of the time.
• Experience in Business Rules Management systems, Operations Research and Predictive Analytics are a plus.
• Familiarity with other scripting languages such as, Javascript, Python, Groovy is desired.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $91,000 to $143,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

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#LI-REMOTE

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — More than 90% of US credit decisions involve the FICO Score.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Multifamily Underwriting – Advisor (Open to Remote)

by Irma Moore | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

Company Description

At Fannie Mae, futures are made. The inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of an inclusive team thriving in an energizing, flexible environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to fair, affordable housing finance.

Job Description

In this position, you will be accountable for assessing and identifying potential risks that may lead to operational, reputational, financial and credit risks, as well as communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders across Multifamily and the Multifamily Enterprise Risk Management team. This position will serve as a key member of the Multifamily Credit Underwriting team with primary responsibly for governance activities associated with the pre-acquisition process for multifamily loans.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Multifamily Underwriting – Advisor role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

Approximately 50% of responsibilities will be focused on governance activities:

• Responsible maintaining governance activities by creating and maintaining procedures and internal credit guidance of the Multifamily Credit Underwriting business.
• Build out oversight framework to enhance ability to address and mitigate challenges of the Multifamily Credit Underwriting business by updates to underwriting requirements and standards published in the Multifamily Selling and Servicing Guide.
• Manage Internal Audits and remediation of issues identified.
• Lead collaboration efforts across teams to identify and evaluate the risks of pre-acquisition of new transactions, business activities and programs for Multifamily Credit Underwriting business.
• Serve as subject matter expert to internal stakeholders as it relates to Multifamily Credit Underwriting business activities and trends.
• Document and present findings and/or conclusions of analysis to key stakeholders and senior management in a thoughtful and persuasive manner.

Approximately 50% of responsibilities will be focused on transaction review:

• Advise on potential risks and costs involved with providing services to a customer.
• Analyze the risks and costs of a lending decision and make recommendations on process improvement related to decision process.
• Advise on process related to issuance of the securities or other financial loans to the customer.

Qualifications

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experience

• 6 years related experience
• Multifamily and GSE loan structuring experience
• Familiarity with the Multifamily Selling and Servicing Guide
• Prior experience performing financial and trend analysis and reporting findings
• Prior experience with credit risk, loan quality analysis, or risk assessment and risk management
• Prior regulatory, compliance or governance experience
• Loan Management including evaluating loan requests, classifying loans, identifying fraud, originating loans, etc.
• Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

Desired Experience

• 12 years related experience
• Bachelor degree or equivalent; Master degree preferred

Fannie Mae is primarily a hybrid company. We embrace flexibility for our employees while providing office space for in-person work and collaboration. This role is classified as Hybrid. If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

 

Additional Information

Fannie Mae is primarily a hybrid company. We embrace flexibility for our employees while providing office space for in-person work and collaboration. This role is classified as open to remote. If you speak with a Recruiter, they will provide you with more information about the definition of this classification.

The future is what you make it to be. Discover compelling opportunities at careers.fanniemae.com.

Fannie Mae is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, personal appearance, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation in the application process, email us at [email protected].
 

Senior Systems Application Engineer

by Irma Moore | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

We are seeking a highly skilled, motivated System Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role can be located in the Louisville Kentucky area or out of one of the other offices in the US.

Senior Systems Application Engineer

What you can expect:

• In this role, you will be responsible for providing engineering support for both internal and client-facing web applications running on Solaris, Oracle Linux and Windows operating systems.
• You will collaborate with international teams, including Solaris and Linux Server Administration, Cyber Security, and Network teams.
• Additionally, you will work on Production system issues, participate in troubleshooting, security vulnerability management, patching, and ensure application availability, reliability, and stability.

What’s in it for you?

• A company with a strong Brand and strong results to match
• Culture of internal mobility, collaboration and valued partnership from the business.
• Employee Resource Groups which provide access to leaders, relevant volunteer and mentoring opportunities and interactions with counterparts in industry groups and client organizations.
• Competitive pay (salary and bonus potential), Full benefits package – starting day one (medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD, life insurance, RSP (Retirement Savings Plan) or TFSA (tax free savings account.)
• Tuition Reimbursement plan and participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Entitled to vacation, floating holidays, time off to give back to your community, sick days, and national holidays (with early dismissal).

We will expect you to:

• Participate in application operations management in Linux systems, running UNIX commands to administrate PROD and non-PROD application environments.
• Provide Tier III administrative support per Operations and project needs; investigate and troubleshoot Production issues.
• Plan & perform major version upgrades of Application Server such as Tomcat, Apache Web Server, etc.
• Follow change control processes to support application releases.
• Remediate application and software related security vulnerabilities.
• Analyze and fine tune the server parameters (JVM Size, Thread pool size, Garbage Collection Process etc.) for achieving better application performance.
• Support operational excellence by identifying ongoing operational issues, root-cause analyses on Severity 1 system outages and identify the relevant remediation plans to strategically address them. Partner with Problem Management on implementing Service Improvement Programs.
• Create and maintain technical documents such as knowledge base articles, infrastructure diagrams, and FAQs.
• Perform routine housekeeping and health monitoring. Write Linux/UNIX Shell Scripts as and when needed for monitoring, recycling, automating tasks, etc.
• Support and resolve issues like application recycles, disk space issues, process hung, port conflict, logs archiving, SSL certificate, expiry, etc.
• Work on putting together and submitting infrastructure related requests, such as DNS registration, SSL certs etc.
• Candidate must be flexible in terms of working hours due to the nature of the role providing 24X5 weekdays support and weekend On-Call support on a rotational basis.
• Willingness to work on weekends to support application releases and maintenance is required.

What you need to have:

• Candidate should have hands-on experience in administering application servers in a corporate environment.
• Minimum 5 years in Oracle Linux systems.
• Working experience in public cloud AWS console management.
• Solid understanding of Windows servers.
• Good understanding of 3 tier or high availability application architecture.
• Good understanding of network topology.
• Sound knowledge of F5 Load Balancer, Firewalls, DNS, etc.
• Knowledge of WebLogic and other related Web/App Servers.
• Task oriented with strong ability to multi-task, and providing status updates using ticketing system such as ServiceNow, for incident and change management.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, to work effectively with international teams, including Development, Database, OS and Infrastructure support teams.

What makes you stand out:

• Experience of incident management and change management tools like ServiceNow.
• Experience working in AWS hosting enterprise applications, Azure is also a plus.
• Experience working in a global enterprise environment.
• Documentation experience on application architecture of production environment.
• Experience with application and severs monitoring tools e.g. – AlertSite, App Dynamics, etc.
• Understanding of Security vulnerabilities of web-based applications like Click Jacking, Insecure SSL/TLS Protocol, SSL weak ciphers etc. and their remediation techniques.
• Degree in Computer Science or graduation/certifications from a credited Technology Program.

Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. The Company’s more than 85,000 colleagues advise clients in over 130 countries. With annual revenue of $23 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses. Marsh provides data-driven risk advisory services and insurance solutions to commercial and consumer clients. Guy Carpenter develops advanced risk, reinsurance and capital strategies that help clients grow profitably and pursue emerging opportunities. Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations redefine the world of work, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock health and well being for a changing workforce. Oliver Wyman serves as a critical strategic, economic and brand advisor to private sector and governmental clients. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected]

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $76,600 to $153,100.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

At Marsh McLennan, we understand the complexity, and the reality, of the modern career path. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you would be a great fit for the role, we would love to hear from you.

Database Administrator

by Irma Moore | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 700+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 150M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

About You

You are passionate about building and managing databases. You are an expert in MySQL and are deep into both hardware and app / schema layer.  You are humble with a sense of humor and eager to be a part of a like minded team of people.  You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!

What You’ll Do

• You’ll be proactive in improving our user experience and system health
• You are willing and able to participate in our on-call schedule
• You will help us to reinvent how people experience chess around the world
• You will take part in building a multi regional resilient system capable of handling millions of games each day along with tons of additional services.
• You will have the opportunity to solve interesting challenges like storing chess games, puzzle attempts, and a 150M+ member social network
• You will help us maintain stability and performance as we blend our existing bare-metal datacenter hosted with GCP for microservices and scaling

Preferred Skills

• Strong understanding of MySQL(Percona), Redis, Linux, hardware, haproxy, 
• Experience with data layer technologies (RDBMS/SQL, NOSQL/key-value, Graph, etc)
• Experience with monitoring & visualization (datadog, PMM, etc)
• Detailed understanding of http and related technologies
• Knowledge of configuration management system
• Server-side automation scripting
• Strong knowledge of UNIX based OS fundamentals
• Security knowledge and risk assessment ability
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility
• Lifelong learner

About the Opportunity

• This is a full-time or contract position
• We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)

You can learn more about us here:

• https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-chess-com-s-100-person-virtual-team-works-together
• https://www.chess.com/about 

We look forward to meeting you!