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Job Description

Do you have solid experience and/or cutting-edge talents along with a great personality? We’re an online development agency looking for a contract-to-hire PHP MySQL Web Application Developer.

Skills & Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• 1+ years PHP & MySQL experience. We are looking for someone who can complete a project start to finish with a web server, database server, a text editor, and no frameworks. Experience with frameworks is valuable, but is secondary to self-sufficient coding.
• Experience in supporting technologies such as XHTML2, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Subversion important as well. Must be competent to hit the ground running.
• Flexibility with respect to approach is a must. Our coding standards and methodologies support our team approach to coding. New ideas and innovations are encouraged so long as they are not overly disruptive.
• Plays well with both designers and marketing people. Can talk with strangers.
• Can show us something cool you’ve built in your own time.

Bonus Round (Not required, but will give you an edge):

• Acumen in hacking WordPress themes and/or plugins
• API experience with any of the following: Facebook, Googe Maps, MailChimp, Twitter, Authorize.net, UPS, AWS
• Fascination with cloud computing/what the industry is doing/wow look at this site!!/etc. An eye for the future.
• Proven experience in building mobile-friendly Web sites and mobile applications.
• Linux & OS X system administration

About Voltage Creative

We’re a fast-paced online development studio in downtown Kansas City. Our roots are in design and branding and we hold close to those by practicing user-focused design and development with a marketer’s eye. We work on Mac’s, we have a pinball machine and there’s beer in the fridge. We offer health benefits and three-weeks paid vacation; two at our employee’s discretion, the third is when the shop closes between Christmas and New Year’s. We’re a small shop; we wear a lot of hats (i.e. we all answer the phone and we all work closely together) so you can’t be afraid of broadening your horizons, at times you’ll need put in extra hours when deadlines are approaching, and you’ll need to check your ego at the door. All of our employees can operate fairly independently just as well as in a team.

Apply:

To apply for this job send a resume and a link to something cool you’ve built in your own time to devjob_1 [at] voltagecreative [dot] com.

• Candidates only please, no recruiters
• Must be able to legally work in the US
• This job is on-location in Kansas City, MO

We love what we do here at Voltage Creative – which makes coming to work everyday a lot more fun. That of course and our fridge which includes a little Boulevard Wheat.

Working on fun projects for great clients only enhances our professional enjoyment. Add in an awesome cause, and we get pretty excited.

Recently, we had the opportunity to launch another web property for The Global Orphan Project (GO Project).

Mobilizing local churches in some of the poorest areas on earth to care for the neediest orphaned and vulnerable children …

This new website was developed for their GO Threads initiative – a new program that allows individuals and teams the ability to support local industry directly associated with the orphanages and villages GO Project supports. Check it out at GOthreads.org.

In june 2011 Voltage Creative began working with Paige Technologies. And we’re already well underway in the development of a new and highly functional web property. This new website, scheduled to launch at the end of the summer 2011, will offer site visitors robust and real-time functionality pertaining to Paige Technologies core business as an IT staffing agency for the area’s top technology companies and IT talent.

Since 2002 Paige Technologies has worked with and provided IT staffing solutions to some of the region’s leading technology companies and has become a trusted resource for this demanding industry.

“Our Relationships. Your Success” is the Paige Technologies tagline and mantra. We’re excited to be working with this driven group and look forward to launching a new site that mirrors the quality of their services and mission.

Founded in 2011 and supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and some of the area’s most well-respected technology companies and education organizations, this non-profit organization will focus its efforts on uniting area resources, educators, companies, and affiliate STEM organizations to drive interest in STEM education and careers:

Mission: The KC STEM Alliance is a collaborative network of educators, business partners and organizations that inspires interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math careers to generate a robust force of related professionals for our community.

Vision: A diverse, innovative and sustainable STEM workforce.

We live in a technically advanced world with an ever-growing demand for highly skilled professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). At the same time, there is increasing concern among education, business and government leaders that we are not cultivating a workforce prepared to meet the challenges of the future.

The vision of the KC STEM Alliance is to see that a diverse, innovative and sustainable STEM workforce becomes a reality. By developing an environment that leverages the strengths of educators, STEM organizations, and local industry we can create a collaborative network to encourage and sustain interest in STEM careers. Working together will allow us to target limited resources where they are most needed, strengthen STEM programs across the community and serve as a vital source of information and research.

In early Spring 2011 Voltage Creative began working with KC STEM Alliance to develop branded materials and core support assets including identity, Mission and Vision Statements, talking points and much more. We have recently completed the development of vital print assets and are in the midst of developing a web property scheduled to launch late summer of 2011.

The Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation has asked Voltage Creative to undertake the development of new identity and branded materials for two of its Branson Missouri properties, White Water and Showboat Branson Belle.

Herschend Family Entertainment owns and operates theme parks, attractions and resorts throughout the United States. From Ride the Ducks, to the Newport Aquarium and Branson’s famous Silver Dollar City, Herschend Family Entertainment is known for world-class family friendly destinations.

In 2010 and 2011 Herschend’s White Water and Showboat Branson Belle attractions are undergoing significant renovations and upgrades that will further position these properties as flagship Branson destinations – from the brand new $2 million Aloha River attraction at White Water, to all new interiors and world class performers aboard the Showboat.

To support these capital improvements, the management teams have asked Voltage Creative to assist in the development of new branded materials and a new identity for White Water.

Needless to say, the Voltage team is extremely excited about this opportunity and we are currently knee-deep in a slew of themed concepts. These kinds of projects are always fun!

Look for our new designs on a highway near you in 2011 and if you find yourself in Branson, do yourself a favor and don’t miss the excitement of White Water and the one-of-a-kind Showboat Branson Belle.

Voltage Creative is pleased to pull the wraps off of our holiday project this year: a social media app called The Greetomatic 2100. The Greetomatic 2100 crawls Twitter and Facebook looking for and then displaying holiday greetings. When you enter a name into it, it starts looking for holiday greetings personalized for you. It’s an experiment in crowd-sourcing holiday cheer.

Go try it out for yourself at Greetomatic.com.

This year, we wanted to show off our ability to build cool stuff using the social web. The Greetomatic 2100 was built on the LAMP stack of server technologies and utilizes CSS3 and jQuery for animations (no Flash). So it works on mobile devices. It’s also w3c web standards compliant and works in safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 and 8. We had a lot of fun building it. We hope you’ll have some fun using it.

Happy Holidays, whoever you are, from all of us here at Voltage Creative!

Voltage Creative is pleased to announce that we’ll be working with Terracon Consulting Engineers and Scientists on their new website.

Terracon is a dynamic and growing employee-owned firm of consulting engineers and scientists providing multiple related service lines to clients at local, regional and national levels. Since 1965, Terracon has grown from a small Iowa geotechnical firm to a large, multifaceted national firm. With more than 2,700 employees and more than 100 offices nationwide, Terracon has the resources of a large firm with the atmosphere of a small one. This growth is the result of talented, dedicated employees working toward a common goal to complement each other to deliver success for clients and employees. Our services are delivered on a timely basis with consistently high value and attention to client needs.

We’ll be working alongside their in-house marketing team as a creative digital services provider. The new site will greatly expand the functionality of the current site at Terracon.com, as well as well as make it easier for the in-house team to make content changes and updates in the future.

We’re very excited about this project! Stay tuned here for an update when we launch!

Voltage Creative is paying a per-photo cash bounty for certain images posted on our FaceBook.

We’re compiling a photo library of words to use in an upcoming promotional campaign and we want your help! We’re willing to pay for the privilege, so just snap a shot of any of the following words, post it to our FaceBook Page Wall and we’ll contact you with the bounty amount asking for a PayPal address to send the cash to. (We’re retaining right of refusal for obvious reasons, but we’ll take just about anything provided it’s not lewd, hateful or illegal.)

Here are the words and the associated bounties offered:

• “V” – $1
• “C” -$1
• “Voltage” – $1
• “Kansas City” – $1
• “Creative” – $2
• “High Voltage” – $2
• “Development” – $2
• “Design” – $2
• “Web” – $2
• “Social” – $3
• “Media” – $3
• “Marketing” – $3
• “Online” – $3
• “Search” – $3

Pass this on to photographers, friends with cell phone cameras or anyone else who’d like to do their own little scavenger hunt for cash.

In June 2010 The Global Orphan Project asked Voltage Creative to assist with improving the usability and maintainability of the Global Orphan website. Our team has been tasked with site map and content evaluation; refinement of the web platform (WordPress) from a coding and web optimization perspective; and implementing the revised site. The goal of the project over the next few months is to increase the utility of the site as a marketing tool as well as a donation driver and e-commerce platform.

The Global Orphan Project Cause:
Founded by two individuals, Mike and Beth Fox, with a spiritual calling to help orphaned and abandoned children around the world, this amazing organization has received national recognition for its efforts. To date, The Global Orphan Project, has opened 45 self-sufficient, locally operated orphanages around the world from Honduras to Haiti and Tanzania to Thailand.

What’s more, 100% of all donations go directly to fund these and new orphanages. Yea, we’re definitely a little excited to work with this organization.

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In case you hadn’t noticed, this place is brand spanking new. From top to bottom VoltageCreative.com has been remade. We wanted to put our work and services front and center, modernize this blog a bit and spruce up our about page with some real photography and an updated clients/capabilities listing; all while keeping the corporate BS at bay.

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We also have a host of other features coming in the future, so stay tuned.