Business: Company is a manufacturer of fun products generally used for putting on parties such as birthdays, New Year's, Super Bowls, Holiday's. About the company and environment. This comes from one of the developers who has been with the company for about 17 years. • Very nice company to work for with great benefits. • VP of IT has created a great work environment with no silos. He is great to work for. • Lots of interesting technical challenges. • Hours are flexible. IT Department: Join a team of 3 AS400 Developers working on Manufacturing and Distribution applications. These 3 Developers have been with the company a long time so they will be a great resource to get you up and running. About the job after you learn the lay of the land: • Self directed pro active type of person. Can take rough specs, work the users to refine them and code, text, implement. Will be given a project to do and take it from there. There likely will be several projects at the same time. • For each project/request there is a sponsor from the business side to work with. • Most of the projects are developing interfaces with packages or other existing systems. • Analysis work. • Work with users. • The projects are in and around manufacturing and distribution systems. • RPG ILE is important experience to have. • They also use Free. They feel if someone has strong RPG ILE back ground they learn Free. • They do a lot of Embedded SQL. They feel if someone has a strong RPG ILE back ground they can learn how to do Embedded SQL. • They also use Go Anywhere and Surveyor. The person does NOT have to have Go Anywhere or Surveyor but it would be NICE to have FAMILIARITY with tools like these.