Director of Business Systems

Zealots Consulting Inc. Executive Search was founded in 1997 and the company specializes in finding highly skilled Information Technology (IT) technical resources by shortening the time to fill ratio by utilizing its practicing consultants unique blend of information technology and intuitive human resources skills to complete assignments often deemed very difficult to place and retain.

Our retained client, The Chartered Professional Accountants Act (CPA) Alberta is the professional regulatory body for the CPA profession in Alberta.

It operates under the provincial Chartered Professional Accountants Act, the purpose of which is to: protect the public; protect the integrity of the accounting profession regulated under the Act; promote and increase the competence of registrants; and regulate the conduct of registrants.

The body protects the public interest by:

• setting education and experience standards to become a CPA;
• setting education and experience standards to provide professional and public accounting services to the public;
• setting and enforcing high professional and ethical standards;
• promoting and increasing competence of members by providing a comprehensive program of learning opportunities;
• assessing the continuing competency of members;
• enforcing practice standards and rules of professional conduct of registrants; and
• providing a means by which complaints can be dealt with in a fair and expeditious way by investigating and adjudicating complaints against members.

CPA Alberta has offices in Edmonton and Calgary.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, with major coursework in information systems, computer science, or related field, and demonstrated experience successfully managing system development lifecycle (SDLC) projects and the ability to lead the integration of custom applications.
• PMI certification and prior experience with regulatory bodies is considered an asset.

• Project Management: must possess a solid understanding of the project management and systems development life cycles.
• Skills: must have excellent working office methodology.
• Organization: must be extremely organized, capable of prioritizing multiple projects.
• Data analysis: must be comfortable using project management software programs –i.e. Microsoft Project, to process data and interpret the results through critical thinking.
• Business knowledge: must possess a solid understanding of The Chartered Professional Accountants Act (CPA) Alberta business and operational fundamentals.
• Communication: must be able to collaborate at all levels, working with team members, senior management, and all stakeholders to move projects forward. This requires excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Infrastructure Manager

Zealots Consulting Inc. Executive Search is recruiting for our top tiered Industry retained client, Western Forest Products Inc., offering top market salaries, 100% employer paid benefits, training and leadership opportunities, and a company pension plan.

Western's key strength is its dynamic people. With more than 2,000 talented and motivated employees, the company has industry-leading knowledge of the fibre base, skills in product manufacturing and dedication to customer service as well as a commitment to safety, community and environmental values.

Our retained client, Western Forest Products Inc. is currently seeking an experienced Windows Technical Support Analyst to join the Company’s Management Information Services Team and Business Services Group.

This position will work out of the Company’s Head Office, in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, and some travel to company operations located on Vancouver Island might be required.

The successful incumbent will also help to identify areas for improvement for the company’s Networking, Virtual Storage, and will provide technical support on Windows 2008 deployment, and the Microsoft Suite of products. In addition, you will participate and help plan and deliver major system changes, perform capacity and problem management.

The Windows Technical Support Analyst will provide 2nd level support for Windows systems and applications.

Finally, the successful candidate will be a passionate problem solver who can also plan, analyze, and resolve business challenges and stay within budget, and is comfortable with peer and supervisory feedback. You must possess a desire to learn and adopt new processes for continual improvement and to keep abreast of new technologies. You must be able to lead by example, and build upon existing team work within the support group.

In summary, the Windows Technical Support Analyst provides a broad range of customer support services to all of our client’s administrative offices, divisions and operations, including but not limited to:

• Wide Area & LAN Network Administration
• Hardware Support
• System Security Controls
• Help Desk, Tier 2 Support
• Data Communications
• System Evaluation
• Troubleshooting & Diagnostics

Must Have Technical Skills:

• Windows 2008 Server deployment experience
• Exchange 2010 Experience
• Microsoft Active Directory (AD) Expertise

Nice to Have Technical Skills:

• Previous experience with Dell Servers
• Previous experience with Virtual Storage – Equal Logic
• Cisco Network Routing & VPN Connectivity Expertise
• Firewall & Network Security Expertise
• VMware

Required Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) and very strong customer service skills and experience
• Tier 1 & 2 customer support

Nice to Have Soft Skills:

• Strong project management experience and proven problem solving capabilities
• Experience recommending, implementing and ensuring adherence to network, security and hardware configuration policies and standards
• Evaluating relevant vendor products and recommending purchases consistent with short and long term objectives of the company
• Exposure to Forestry or Industry Related experience is highly desirable

• Bachelor or Diploma in Computer Science or Business is preferred
• 3 years of Networking experience or a combination of relevant education and work experience
• Candidates must have a strong working knowledge in a Microsoft Windows networking environment
• Technical experience and proficiency with microcomputer hardware and its application is required
• The ability to work in a team oriented environment with a strong customer service orientation is a mandatory requirement for this position
• Troubleshooting WAN & LAN performance issues, and re-engineering more robust solutions

Manager of Software Development & Data Integration

Our clientis highly committed to the safety of its employees, and values a culture of performance and discipline, all in their beautiful Vancouver head office location. Our client’s key strength is its dynamic people. With more than 2,000 talented and motivated employees, the company has industry dedication to customer service as well as a commitment to safety, community and environmental values.
Our client’s valued employees are dedicated to their profession, co-workers, communities, company and customers. Their inspiring and unique skill sets and commitment to achieving excellence are reflected in products, processes and culture of continuous improvement and Innovation.
 
The Position & Responsibilities:
Working with the MIS application development team the successful candidate will be responsible for the development of an electronic Form application and a dynamic Excel upload web application and will include the following:

• Implement solutions based on high level architectural design documents.
• Writing technical specifications.
• Utilize and extend, where necessary, foundational code blocks to maintain a standard troubleshooting and maintenance environment.
• Work with the development team to maintain a consistent code quality and style.

• You possess a college diploma or university degree and/or 5 years equivalent work experience, with a strong aptitude for finding IT solutions to meet the business needs of our client.

Must Have Skills:

• C# developer
• Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
• WFP XAML forms
• ASP.Net web forms
• IIS 7
• .Net Framework XML data object model

Nice to Have Skills:

• Knowledge of ‘Click Once’ deployment.
• Excel documents and the Open XML SDK 2.0
• SQL scripting
• WCF services
• Visual Studio TFS as source control

• You are a confident and a versatile team player who is comfortable with the ever-changing demands of a dynamic workplace.
• You have the ability to work in a team oriented, collaborative environment. 
• You are considered to be an effective communicator, with good interpersonal skills and you enjoy providing superior service to your customers.
• You enjoy a challenging assignment and you will generally reach the desired objective.
• You have a “can do” attitude, with proven multi-tasking and organizational skills.
• Must be a team-player and willing to learn new technologies and concepts.

Director of Human Resources & Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Zealots Consulting Inc. Executive Search is actively recruiting a Contract IT Recruiter on a 6 month term assignment with a high probability of multiple renewals with our Fortune 500 client.

The ideal candidate will have 3 + years of IT Recruitment experience and specific expertise recruiting some of the best and brightest digital agency and social media experts, along with top notch web developers.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• 3+ Years of IT Recruitment and Resource Management expertise coupled with hands on experience using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Both Internal and Agency Recruiting and Hiring experience
• Actively drives the recruitment process and team engagement
• Must have very strong communication and organization skills

Nice to Have Skills:

• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Lean, and Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience developing training, learning and development plans for teams.

Day to Day Activities:

• Become a Strategic Partner with hiring managers to understand the unique needs of the team, and the particular skill sets, critical competencies and personality traits required to build an outstanding digital agency, and social medial development team.

• Partner with external digital leaders to shape and execute a vision for establishing our client as an employer of choice and to have a passion to build a 'best of breed' digital agency technical and social media team.

• Work closely with the Human Resources team and to develop and execute tactical sourcing strategies.

• Must be resourceful, well connected, and has the ability to utilize your superior network, as well as referrals, and internet searches, as well as secondary sourcing techniques in order to source potential candidates.

• Manages both the resource and hiring funnel within the team, and sets priorities to identify the skills required.

• Filters through candidates, assesses cultural fit, experience, and has a natural curiosity about learning more about the social media branding, digital agency and web development space.

• Builds and maintains an on boarding plan that will set new team members up for success with the required knowledge and tools.

• Creates the hiring and selection criteria to bring in candidates who will fit our client's culture and strategic vision.

• Conduct skills assessments to build training plans and who can quickly understand the benefits of creating a digital team environment to effectively create learning and development opportunities for the team.

• Must have superior relationship building skills and experience with developing an external agency to benchmark against external markets.

• Helps drive team engagement with team members both locally and nationally in multiple cities.

Director of Information Technology

Zealots Consulting Inc. Executive Search is actively recruiting a contract software development and integration Project Manager (SDLC) to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan.

The software development and integration Project Manager will also define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle.

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Plan, schedule and track project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.

• Degree from an accredited college or university, with major coursework in systems analysis, information systems, computer science or a related field, and have experience successfully implementing and supporting enterprise applications.
• PMP Certified

• 10+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Strong familiarity with project management software, such as Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated experience in personnel management.
• Technically competent with various software programs.
• Knowledge of the forestry industry and/or manufacturing a definite asset.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Flexible during times of change.
• Ability to understand communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Ability to persuade, encourage, and motivate.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Ability to defuse tension among project team, should it arise.
• Ability to bring project to successful completion through political sensitivity.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills combined with customer service skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.
• Tenacious.

Work Conditions

• Overtime may be required in meet project deadlines.
• Must be able to participate in training sessions, presentations, and meetings.

Zealots Consulting Inc. Executive Search is actively recruiting a Technical Writer/Business Analyst that can help our client with documenting current IT Processes and Procedures.

You will be well versed in technical writing, end user documentation as well as have the ability to translate technical requirements to non-technical end users and senior executives.

Additional skills include formal business analyst methodologies and fact finding end user requirements gathering including: developing formal use case cases, UML modeling, story boarding, and Visio skills are all considered assets.

Our client is open to a remote resource for the duration of the contract.

Bachelor of Arts, Commerce or Related Discipline

Director of Software Development

Our client has upcoming needs for a Siebel Developer/Analyst Version 7.0 for (12) months in length.
Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

1. Participating in troubleshooting activities (space, data errors, SQL statements, interfaces to external systems, etc.)
2. Configuration, application development, testing, and go-live activities as required
3. Responsible for functional and technical documentation as required
4. Troubleshooting and resolving functionality/data related queries
5. Assisting in interface development/support

• BSc. Computer Science
• Siebel Version 7.0

The qualified candidate must have:

• Strong knowledge/experience with Siebel;
• Experience in multiple full-cycle Siebel implementations;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; and,
• Excellent project/organizational skills