DM: 4+ immedate job openings for Knowledge Discovery Engineers

[Greg Makowski]

4+ immediate job openings

Knowledge Discovery Engineer (KDE) for NeoVista Software

Job Description
In this position, candidates will be responsible for the
implementation and technical success of business solutions through
the application of NeoVista's Decision Series or vertical software
products. NeoVista puts business value of customer solutions first. 

Candidates who will be strongly preferred are those with business
deployment experience in at least one, and preferably more, of the
following analytic techniques:  neural networks, decision trees (i.e.
C5.0, CART®  or CHAID), naove Bayes, clustering or association rules.
Strong experience solving business problems with modeling process,
regression, statistics or other analytic numeric
methods is also relevant for this position.  

KDE's should to be proficient in programming and manipulating large
data systems as part of the analysis.  Analytic projects may involve
10-50 GB of data, and may be contained in a half dozen tables to as
many as 75 tables.  Strong experience in either SQL or SAS is a core
skill set.   Experience in Unix scripting, Java, C++, or C can be
helpful. 

Must have BA/BS or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in the
computer industry, although most of our KDE's have an MS or Ph.D.
One or more years of experience with large scale data mining/
knowledge discovery/pattern recognition projects as an implementor
is desirable.

Helpful experience includes analytic or business experience in our
vertical markets.  Our vertical markets include retail (supply chain
optimization problems), insurance, banking or telco (Customer
Relationship Marketing problems such as customer retention,
segmentation or fraud).  Experience in targeted marketing analytics
or deployment is useful.  Candidates are not required to have such
vertical market experience. Other helpful experience includes: 
presentation, written and client communication skills, project
management orproposal writing.  Periodic travel may be required for
project presentations, or for on site analytic work.

This job description describes a "center" of the set of skills useful
for this position.  It may be to the advantage for candidates to send
a cover letter detailing specific experiences, strengths and weakness
to fill a KDE role. Preferred locations for employment are: 
Cupertino, CA, Dallas, Atlanta or other major metropolitan areas. 
NeoVista Software has an immediate need to hire multiple KDE's.


Pre-Sales Knowledge Discovery Engineer (KDE) for NeoVista Software

Job Description
People in this position work with a sales executive to listen to
prospects, understand their business problems, and to propose
compelling KDD solution. Giving presentations and or demos to small
groups of business VP's and their technical advisors is a common
activity.  It is important to be able to communicate effectively to
business executives and individuals that may be technical in either
IT or analytic methods.  Travel for 1-3 day trips twice a month may
not be uncommon.

Once the pre-sales KDE proposes a solution, they may write for a
proposal the project plan, description of major tasks, project
deliverables and possible business deployment strategies.  They may
also play an account management role with regard to technical issues. 


The pre-sales KDE should be able to meet the majority of the
requirements for a KDE, however the distinction between KDE's and
pre-sales KDE's occurs in degrees.  Preferred locations for
employment are:  Cupertino, CA, Dallas, Atlanta or other major
metropolitan areas.  NeoVista Software has immediate openings
for multiple pre-sales KDE's.


Application Directions:
Please email or fax a resume and a cover letter addressed to me.
I will be travelling the week of 8/17-21/98, so during this time
please send both an email and fax.  
    Greg Makowski  (pre-sales KDE)
    NeoVista Software, Inc.
    10710 North Tantau Avenue
    Cupertino, CA 95014
    makowski@neovista.com  (Word or text resume)
    (408) 777-2930 fax
    (408) 343-4239 phone
    www.neovista.com


Thank you for your time, Greg