San Diego Tech Scene

AI Center is offering a free week of coworking until July 31st. Stop by the center Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm and experience the benefits of coworking at no cost. Take a break from your usual coffee shop or home and work alongside talented people with the same passion for innovation that you have. Meet other entrepreneurs, see what they’re working on, and share your own ideas. Moreover, you will have access to 6,000 sq. ft. of space, WiFi, and our fully-furnished kitchen.

AI Center is a startup accelerator focused on incubation, commercialization, and globalization of local innovations. They offer mentorship and access to educational and community events, as well as business resources to help entrepreneurs achieve success faster.

Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of San Diego’s growing startup community! For more information on how to sign up, contact info@aicenterca.com.

Website: www.aicenterca.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AICenterCA

The San Diego Flash User Group, the San Diego Adobe Developer User Group and the San Diego Photoshop User Group are hosting an AdobeCamp on June 25th from 9-1 at the Art Institute of San Diego. This event will give attendees a great overview of the new features in Adobe’s Creative Suite 5.5. We thought your employees might want to attend. Space is limited to 50, and tickets are only 20 (lunch included). http://sandiegoadobecamp.eventbrite.com/

Here is the current agenda:

• Welcome & Overview – 10 minutes
• Flash Professional – 30 minutes
• Dreamweaver – 30 minutes
• PhotoShop – 30 minutes
• Flash Catalyst – 30 minutes
• Flash Builder – 30 minutes
• CF Builder – 15 minutes
• Community Showcase – 30 minutes
• Wrapup and Prizes – 10 minutes

Where: The Art Institute of San Diego – 7655 Mission Valley Road San Diego , CA 92108

Date: June 25th from 9am to 1pm

Twitter: @ChrisGriffith

Job Description for a Senior Software Architect and Developer

We are a fast growing San Diego based company with a leading online video creation platform. We currently serve the personal development market allowing people to make high quality videos of their dream life and achieve their full potential. We have a super fun and casual work environment with a great group of people. We seek a Senior Software Engineer, with project management experience to lead our small team of off and on site developers in Agile SDLC.

Eight plus years experience with online applications, eCommerce and video editing software would be ideal. You will design and develop applications, manage a large client database, support marketing efforts, manage an offshore developer team and create or select all technology to achieve business objectives.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor
• Working closely with upper management.
• Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance.
• Expected to conduct system analysis and development, with limited support from professional staff, to keep our systems current with changing technologies.
• Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems.
• Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers.
• Responsible for developing new programs and proofing the program to develop needed changes to assure production of a quality product.
• Document code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions, and any changes made in database tables on procedural, modular and database level.
• Search, summarize and keep the team abreast of strategic information from all sources
• Capable of writing specifications, proposals and papers.
• Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of clients and staff.
• Provide feedback to analysis/training staff about performance considerations / usability issues concerning software specifications and implementation.
• Provide recommendations to management concerning issues of programmer productivity and software development management.
• Being productive in PHP on a MVC framework, ActionScript 3 on a Rich Internet Application, Python Javascript, HTML 5/CSS and Mysql and XML.

Additional skills and/or areas of expertise:

• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• Ability to identify tasks which require automation and automate them.
• Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment.
• Possess a positive attitude.
• Ability to “think outside the box”.
• Experience and ability to teach or instruct co-workers.
• Possess extremely advanced technical skills.
• As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, expected to learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating new technologies with our systems.
• Expert knowledge of computer languages.
• Expert knowledge of data structures.
• Expert knowledge of computer logic and flow-charting.
• Expert knowledge of computer program design methods and techniques.
• Expert knowledge of all database vendor versions.
• Expert knowledge of maintaining and debugging live software systems.
• Expert knowledge of writing program documentation.
• In-depth technical knowledge of the current hardware.

In return you will be rewarded with the best work environment you could imagine: relaxed, fun, and friendly. An opportunity to expand and grow our team to meet business needs, and work closely with sales and marketing teams to achieve business goals.

Salary commensurate with experience but ranging from $80,000 to $125,000 + benefits.

To view the online video platform please visit, http://www.mindmovies.com/v2

Dev-ing. Mobile. Good food. Awesome prizes.

RSVP: http://mobileappsd-esli.eventbrite.com/

Mobile App Hackathon is an event for mobile developers to come together, network, learn about new technologies and build mobile apps. A full day of coding, drinks, food and snacks and fun contents with prizes across categories. Meet new people and teammates, start projects and work on existing ones, and learn from short talks on technologies and trends that can help you build better apps.

Mobile App Hackathon events are brought to you by the AT&T Developer Program. We are platform agnostic and most interested in helping you, the developer, with understanding your platform development options (Android, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, BrewMP, etc) as well as helping make the right introductions to get your application built.

What introductions you ask? We have secured devs from Sencha, Apigee, PhoneGap and AppMobi to help you code that much faster. We even have Jeff Barr from Amazon coming down to talk about their cross platform solution, so make sure to break out your cameras!

Bring your current projects or start new ones. The AT&T Developer Program will provide phones that you can test and hack on. If you need to test your application on some of the latest phones, now is the opportunity. If you have special requests, please email Alex Donn at alex.donn@att.com and I will accomodate your phone testing requests.

Please note that this event will be focused on HTML5/Javascript based mobile apps as the uptake is faster for novices and experts alike when you have code ready to go from Sencha that takes care of your mobile UI. Afterall, do you really want to code those extra lines when you can be out basking in the wonderful San Diego sun? If you are interested in native apps please message us and if the demand is strong enough, we can make it happen.

So where is this event happening at? Qualcomm’s office right next to the golden triangle, right on Mira Mesa Blvd. Qualcomm has graciously opened their facilities to us and there is even parking!

To start the day on June 4th, we will have a light breakfast along with lightening talks interspersted throughout the day from the following partners that will help you setup your development environments as well as help you develop your mobile application:

After the hackathon has completed, we will have everyone demo what you’ve worked on, gather feedback and hand out prizes for audience favorites!

User Group / Event Name: Come learn stats and data visualization
#opensd #sddata

RSVP: http://meetupsd.hackshackers.com/events/17361310/

Website: http://opensandiego.org
Twitter: @opensandiego

Meets at San Diego Foundation
2508 Historic Decatur Rd., Ste. 200, San Diego, CA

Date: Apr 20 2011 from 6:30 to 7:30

Description: Our very own Brian Conner has offered to provide a high speed introduction to R, a free software environment for statistical computing and data visualization. From installation to data manipulation to plots and maps in one hour.

Additional: http://blog.opensandiego.org/post/4431462753/come-learn-r-with-us

Saturday, May 14th, from 9:00am to 3:30pm

RSVP: http://sdtechopenspace.eventbrite.com

#SDTechOpenSpace

What do you want to talk or learn about ??

Or Any topic you want. It is an Open Space!!

Open Space Technology is a meeting methodology that helps individuals and groups become more effective in work environments that are rapidly and constantly changing by developing their skills as lifelong learners and collaborative problem solvers. It creates the conditions so that the maximum potential of the individual and the organization to be realized. Open Space Technology captures the knowledge, experience and innovation in the organization that is not captured through less open processes.

Location: Ansir Innovation Center

Address: 4685 Convoy Street Suite #210, San Diego CA 92111

Directions: Across from Infiniti dealership on Convoy St, in same plaza as Pangea Bakery, on second floor of T-Mobile Store and Tea Garden

Parking: Please note there is a 2 hour parking limit at the structure, if you plan to stay longer you can also find street parking available in the back of building on Engineer road & Brinell St.

Follow @AICenterCA and @SDTechScene for event updates.

Event is free but a $10 donation is requested at the day of the event.

AGENDA:

09:00 – 09:30 – Breakfast and Networking
09:30 – 09:15 – Open Space Introduction
09:15 – 10:30 – Open Sessions 1
10:30 – 11:15 – Open Sessions 2
11:15 – 12:00 – Open Sessions 3
12:00 – 12:45 – Lunch Break (Pangea Bakery is suggested)
12:45 – 13:30 – Open Session 4
13:30 – 14:15 – Open Session 5
14:15 – 15:00 – Open Session 6
15:00 – 15:30 – Closing Ceremony

Contact the organizer: alline@sdtechscene.org

Have a Great Business Idea?

The Business & Entrepreneurship Center at MiraCosta College is hosting an elevator pitch contest, where college students, or anyone 27 or under, can try to convince a panel of ”Angel Investors” that they have the best business idea, all in less than 3 minutes.
8 finalists will be chosen.

Registration Deadline is Midnight, April 22nd, 2011.

Pitch It! Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP)
http://www.yepcalifornia.com/pitch-it.html

Grand Prize is an Apple iPad2
Want to Watch? Come by and join our audience for free, plus you can vote for your favorite elevator pitch live.

Ever seen Lie To Me?

Want to get your Cal Lightman on?

Ever wonder how cops and detectives know how to ask the right questions to get liars to admit guilt, or how to eek out details crucial to an investigation? Well we do – They get training – from places like Humintell!

Dan Tentler has arranged for Humintell to come to San Diego for a 4 hour training session on May 21st. It costs $250 and the head researcher from Humintell (twitter.com/humintell), Dr. David Matsumoto (twitter.com/davidmatsumoto) is coming HIMSELF to do the training!

Want more info? Email Dan! dan@atenlabs.com

CommNexus San Diego would like to invite you to apply to meet with the CTO and head of Ventures for Motorola Mobility through MarketLink™. Marketlink is a FREE program that pairs local companies with multinational corporations hoping to identify and license new technologies. MarketLink brings parties of mutual interest together by orchestrating an event that will offer selected companies the opportunity to present to technology executives from visiting corporations in a personalized 1-on-1 session

Event Name: CommNexus MarketLink
Website: http://www.commnexus.org/programs/event_20110125.php
Twitter: @commnexus_sd
Date: May 9 to May 11

To see the technology areas of interest, get more information and apply, please visit: http://www.commnexus.org/programs/event_20110125.php

It's that time again! San Diego's bloggers will gather at RA Sushi for an evening of good ol' fashion networking. Meet your digital neighbors, find a new guest blogger, or just kick back and enjoy a few libations with friends on Wednesday March 23rd at 7:30pm. 

As you know, we keep our events pretty informal, it's up to you to make the most of it. We usually don't do nametags, speakers, or announcements, but we recognize some of you like a little structure too. With that being said, we'd like to focus this particular event on finding a guest blogger (or two). 

We feel like guest contributors have a very powerful effect on growing our blogs and we'd like to inspire more of this. As you introduce yourself to new bloggers and you meet people with like minded interests, I encourage you to pose the question… "what kind of blog content are you looking for and how can I help with that?"

If all of us walk away from the event with a few potential guest bloggers, we feel like this will greatly increase the collaboration in our community and contribute to a 'rising tide'. 

RA Sushi (@RASushiSanDiego) is roping off their bar area for our group and extending Happy Hour specials until 9:30pm. Parking can be a pain, but Horton Plaza is nearby and will validate up to 3 hours if you get your validation before the mall closes (about 8pm).

We are looking forward to seeing you Wednesday, March 23rd.

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/sdbloggers/events/16741629/