mattcrest

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Direct of Design, ACL Software (acl.com)

Medium: http://medium.com/@mattcrest

Twitter: @mattcrest

Denver, Colorado

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Comment · 10 years ago
I failed to mention that the UI Developer role is open to remote, but within USA/Canada only.
Comment · 10 years ago
ACL Software | UI Developer | Full-time | Vancouver, BC or REMOTE | http://build.acl.com

Chat bots are cool, but we're looking for someone to join our 10 person UX Design team and help us build products that make a difference. Our software is used to prevent fraud and waste in organizations and governments, help companies determine strategic plans for the future, and ensure they all operate with integrity.

UX/UI Developers at ACL work closely with UX Designers and Software Engineers to deliver beautiful functioning software used by 90% of the Fortune 500 and by organizations around the world.

Skills/Qualifications

  • Understand JavaScript concepts such as object, closure, scope, etc.
  • Understand JavaScript design patterns
  • Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture (performance, accessibility, usability, etc.)
  • Experience with or willing to learn Sass, git, and the command line
  • Experience with client side frameworks like AngularJS (MVC, MVVM,...)
  • Open to working within the view layer of Ruby on Rails
Nice to have

  • React, TDD and JavaScript testing frameworks, rapid prototyping
Learn more & apply: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=orJe4fwc&s=hn Feel free to email me, Matt (Director of Design), with any questions – matt_crest[at]acl[dot]com

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We're also hiring for these Vancouver-only positions:

  • Software Engineer (C#, JavaScript) - http://www.acl.com/about-us/careers/open-positions/?p=job%2FogvV3fwt&s=hn
  • QA Engineer Co-op (4 or 8 months) - http://www.acl.com/about-us/careers/open-positions/?p=job%2FoM594fwO&s=hn
Comment · 11 years ago
ACL Software [http://acl.com] | Designer, Engineer, R&D Manager, QA

Vancouver, BC | Onsite | Full-time

Why you should leave your current job and work with us: http://bit.ly/acl-ux-designer

We're also hiring for QA Engineers, DevOps, Ruby on Rails, R&D Manager and basically anyone that's wanting to do great work (https://acl-openhire.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseac...)

Our industry and marketing website may look bland and boring, but trust me, we're doing some really kick-ass stuff on the product side. Our customers include 90% of the Fortune 500 and government agencies around the world.

We're not bootstrapped, taking on venture capital, or getting headlines on TechCrunch, but we are moving at the speed of a startup, building products with Angular, Rails, Go, and have a great team that pushes each other to be better every day.

Oh, and we're located in one of the best cities in North America: Vancouver.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
They are bulky for traveling. I use these at my office, and just use iPhone earbuds for when I'm on the go.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
Sounds good. She sent a beta inquiry about getting her school on board with it.

I think the school/district-wide system is going to be your best bet. As I'm sure you're aware, teachers don't exactly bring home the bank. So personally dropping $10/mo for something like this isn't likely going to happen for most teachers (most provide quite a bit of in-classroom supplies out of pocket as well).

Something to consider in promoting to schools/districts: lack of parent involvement is one of the biggest reasons kids aren't doing well in school. By keeping parents informed on a regular basis about what their kids should be doing, there's a better chance homework will get done, studying for tests will happen, and those damn standardized test scores will improve. Well, that's the hope at least.

Comment · 15 years ago
Sorry for the slow reply, but, that in itself doesn't connect it to an SMS number. That's just so she can contact a class as a whole, rather than individually.

The SMS connection lies in that every mobile number has an email address associated with it. So you can send an email to that address and it will be delivered to the device as a text message.

Comment · 15 years ago
My wife is a middle school teacher and created a system similar to this using a Gmail account. She creates groups for each class, then emails to their SMS address ([email protected] or similar).

This looks so much nicer than jacking around with all the various carrier email addresses manually.

I'll have her pass this along to her district. Best of luck!

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
I'll throw in a recommendation for PayLeap (http://www.payleap.com) as a combo gateway/merchant account.

As for the the delayed billing, something like OpenGateway (http://opengateway.net) might work. It is set up for subscription payments, but there's a way to work around it. You could essentially set up the initial payment with a 30 day free trial (although don't really call it that), then automatically bill after the trial period. And instead of then billing every 30 days like a traditional subscription, you make set it up so it only charges once (no repeat).

I recently used these two in conjunction and have had great support from both companies. PayLeap has superb phone and email support and OpenGateway has solid email/web support. Also worth mentioning, I'm not an experienced ecommerce or subscription guy, but both systems were pretty easy to work with.

Comment · 16 years ago
Develop an alternative to TicketMaster that you can white label to MLB, NFL, etc. They could be making millions of extra dollars a year if they had their own system. Why not create the system for them and skim a portion off the top.

[I'm a designer and have no idea what would be involved in making this happen, or if it's feasible from a business perspective. I'm also in Denver, so...would love to hear what comes of your project]

Comment · 16 years ago
It looks nice, but I agree with wbond. Not only should the p tags be labels, but the divs could be fieldsets to make it more semantic.

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