Be a part of one of the leading and most prestigious TV and Broadcast Media organizations in the Washington, DC area. This organization is building Interactive Online User Experiences to compliment TV programming consisting of games, puzzles, on-demand video, user-generated content, shareable widgets, blogs, forums, the works.

Principal Responsibilities
• Act as technical owner of Social Networking Platform, providing programming and technical services to internal editorial staff, external content producers, and Interactive websites
• Provide input on design and suggest appropriate technology for various features
• Work closely with business owners to identify requirements and design and upgrades and changes to technology
• Identify ways to distribute technology
• Perform web server and web application software configuration and performance reporting
• Assist in the creation of administrative utilities within content management tools
• Create new blogs

Requested
• Bachelors Degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent experience
• Experience in web programming, particularly web application development in a LAMP environment including:
o Linux or UNIX
o Apache web server, and/or open source content tools
o My SQL, Database schema design; complex SQL querying of data
o Server-side programming with PHP, Python and/or shell scripting
o XML/XSL/XSLT
o Client-side scripting with JavaScript/AJAX
• Experience with CMS frameworks such as Drupal, Django, or Zope
• Experience developing social networking tools, including widget development & delivery
• Familiarity with online video technologies

Desired
• Experience in entertainment industry a plus
• Experience developing Interactive Flash components games, puzzles, etc. for Kids, including Pre-K and elementary school levels

For more information or to apply, please contact:

Ken Persel
Persel Gardner
kenpersel@perselgardner.com
202.466.0550