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	<title>Private Equity Fund Manager Horizon Capital Invests Into an IT Company Ciklum</title>
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<div> <b>Best private equity fund in CIS 2011 acquires a minority stake in one of the Top 5 leading IT Outsourcing service providers in the Ukraine</b> </div>
 
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<div class="Text"><img src="/upload/ciklum/s1/images/news/Horizon_Capital_Logo_Site_Release.jpg" title="Private Equity Fund Manager Horizon Capital Invests Into an IT Company Ciklum " border="0" align="left" alt="Private Equity Fund Manager Horizon Capital Invests Into an IT Company Ciklum " width="240" height="69"  /><span style="font-weight: bold;">KIEV, April 25, 2012</span> &ndash; Ciklum, an innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine and Belarus, announced today that it has sold a minority stake to Horizon Capital, a regional private equity fund manager. 
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 Ukraine&rsquo;s IT outsourcing market has been demonstrating impressive cumulative average growth rates of 28% per annum during 2004-2011 and is forecasted to enjoy 20-25% growth rates per annum during 2012-2016 based on the continued cost advantage of highly skilled Ukrainian programmers. 
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 Of Danish origin with the Head Office in Ukraine, Ciklum is an IT company with a unique business strategy. Ciklum establishes <a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.ciklum.net/it-outsourcing-services/own-dedicated-nearshore-offshore-software-development-team-Eastern-Europe-Ukraine-Belarus-Pakistan/" target="_parent" title="Learn more about Ciklum Client Own Dedicated IT Software Development Team Model in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Belarus" >dedicated IT development teams</a> to enable clients to work directly with developers to reach the highest level of productivity. With the development offices in Ukraine, Belarus, and Pakistan, Ciklum delivers a vast portfolio of outsourcing services that is designed especially for the client. While the client focuses on managing the process of software development, Ciklum takes care of all operational issues, including human resources management, IT infrastructure, and administrative and legal support. Ciklum even offers its clients help in selling their software product and/or services in the CIS region. 
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 Torben Majgaard, Ciklum founder and CEO said: 
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  <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">&ldquo;We are proud of our achievements over the past 10 years. The company has demonstrated excellent performance and growth. Horizon Capital has a strong understanding of our business and shares our vision and values which makes it the right partner for us in Ukraine. Our mutual priority will be to grow further as this is integral to our success. We look forward to leveraging Horizon Capital&rsquo;s understanding of the Ukrainian environment as well as global trends and best practices to continue to innovate and grow the business.&rdquo; </span> 
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 Denis Tafintsev, Partner of Horizon Capital, commented on the deal: 
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 <blockquote><i>&ldquo;Ciklum&rsquo;s visionary founder together with its talented management team has developed an excellent company, and already secured a strong position in this sector, growing faster than the market. Ciklum&rsquo;s model of dedicated teams puts the clients&rsquo; interest first, which creates long-term mutually beneficial partnerships with the clients. We are very excited to be investing in the business and look forward to working with Ciklum as it executes its ongoing growth strategy.&rdquo; </i> 
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  <p style="line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Horizon Capital (</span><a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.horizoncapital.com.ua" target="_blank" >www.horizoncapital.com.ua</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">) is a private equity fund manager that originates and manages investments in mid-cap companies with outstanding growth and profit potential in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. Currently, Horizon Capital manages three funds, Emerging Europe Growth Fund II (EEGF II), Emerging Europe Growth Fund (EEGF), and Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), with over $600 million under management.</span></p>
 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:41:58 +0300</pubDate>
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 The deal, announced on April 24, 2012 is the first investment of Horizon Capital into the fast-growing IT sector in Ukraine and will enable Ciklum to strengthen its leading position in the market. Ciklum is an IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine, Belarus and Pakistan with over 160 clients globally. It has a unique business strategy, taking care of all operational issues to enable its clients to work directly with high-skilled developers and creating mutually beneficial long-term partnerships as a result. Chadbourne has been proud to assist Horizon Capital with its investment into this exciting business. 
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 The Chadbourne team was led by the Kyiv managing partner Jaroslawa Johnson, counsel Olena Repkina and London-based partner Charez Golvala, with a talented team of associates providing key input on a range of topics, including competition, tax, employment and IP: Tetyana Dovgan, Maryna Golovko, Anna Putintseva, Anna Iakubenko and Alexandra Neovius. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 10:24:28 +0300</pubDate>
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<div class="Text">The Ukrainian Community of Software Developers highlights a recent investment deal between Ciklum and Horizon Capital, the best private equity fund in CIS 201. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:41:34 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>Horizon Capital Enriched With Software</title>
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<div class="Text">Investors are becoming increasingly interested in IT outsourcing markets globally. Horizon Capital and Ciklum have closed an investment deal to be funded via the Emerging Europe Growth Fund II. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:12 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>Ciklum Seminar in Zurich: Strategic considerations in setting up a development center in Eastern Europe</title>
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      <div class="ProgramContainerDiscription">by <b>Franco Dal Molin</b>, Country Manager, Ciklum Switzerland</div>
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        <p>by <b>Marcus Kuhn</b>, CEO &amp; Co-Founder, <a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.connex.io" target="_blank" >connex.io AG</a><a href="#" target="_blank" ></a></p>
       
        <p>Kann man mit einem kleinen Entwicklerteam Nearshoring betreiben? Marcus Kuhn von connex.io zeigt uns, wie sie mit drei Programmierern in Odessa (Ukraine) sehr erfolgreich zusammen arbeiten und warum dieses Modell f&uuml;r connex.io der richtige Weg ist.</p>
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        <p>by <b>Andrea Salce</b>, CEO, <a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.coladalive.com" target="_blank" >Salce Colada AG</a><a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.connex.io" target="_blank" ></a></p>
       
        <p>Der Inhaber und CEO von Salce Colada AG setzt die Nearshoring Strategie seit &uuml;ber einem Jahr konsequent um und besch&auml;ftigt heute bereits 10 Softwareentwickler in Minsk (Weissrussland). Andrea Salce gibt uns einen Einblick in seine strategischen &Uuml;berlegungen und eindr&uuml;cklichen Resultate.</p>
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        <p>by <b>Philipp Engstler</b>, CTO, <a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.ricardo.com" target="_blank" >ricardo Group</a><a href="/bitrix/redirect.php?event1=&amp;event2=&amp;event3=&amp;goto=http%3A//www.coladalive.com" target="_blank" ></a></p>
       
        <p>Die ricardo Group hat im Sommer 2011 mit dem Aufbau eines zweiten Entwicklungszentrums in Kiew (Ukraine) begonnen. Was waren die &Uuml;berlegungen hinter diesem strategischen Schritt? Wie wurde evaluiert und entschieden? Philipp Engstler, CTO der ricardo Group, gew&auml;hrt uns einen faszinierenden Einblick.</p>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:47:54 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>Ciklum QA Saturday</title>
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  <li><b>Kasper Andersen</b> (Unity 3D, Denmark) with <b>&quot;Testing Unity: When AAA is the only option...&quot;.</b> Kasper will talk about what it means to be an SDET at Unity and about how SDETs are the backbone of Unity&rsquo;s AAA test strategy. He will show examples of how Unity uses tools to fight regressions, and how test cases can easily be written and deployed to Unity’s many target platforms. Kasper Amstrup Andersen works as SDET Lead at Unity where he is currently working on writing tests, tools and frameworks for Unity and its target platforms.</font></li>
 
  <li><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b>Artem Vasiuk</b> (Ciklum, Kharkov) with <b>&quot;Testing in SCRUM teams. Practice advices&quot;.</b> Report will touch a number of typical problems and solutions encountered by testers in projects with Scrum processes.</font></li>
 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:30:50 +0300</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:46:26 +0300</pubDate>
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1. Windows Azure as a platform for backend services for mobile applications.
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2. BugSense library. Handy error reports collection in your mobile apps. Integration with Windows Phone
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:25:38 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>Test Engineer Lead for moneyhouse</title>
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<p class="DetailTextLarge">On behalf of the leading provider for business and personal information in Switzerland, <strong>moneyhouse</strong> (http://www.moneyhouse.ch), Ciklum is looking for <strong>Test Engineer Lead</strong>.</p>

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<strong>Responsibilities</strong>
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&bull; Testing;
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• Building test automation frameworks;
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• Maintaiance of test automation scripts;
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• Building a software test automation team;
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• Building and setting new processes from scratch;
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• Reporting to stakeholders and management;
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• Managing and analysis test automation results;</p>

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<strong>Requirements</strong>
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• A relevant IT qualification and two years IT experience;
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• Overall software testing experience;
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• Theoretical and practical knowledge of different test types, methodologies and process;
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• Knowledge and understanding of software test automation concepts Building test documentation;</p>

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<strong>Technical skills:</strong>
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• C#;
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• SQL;
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• XML;
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• XPath;
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• VBScript</p>

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<strong>As a plus</strong>
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• JIRA;
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• SVN;</p>

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<strong>Ciklum offers you:</strong> 
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• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities; 
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• A lot of various technical seminars; 
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• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client; 
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• Competitive salary; 
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• Career and professional growth; 
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• Possibility to work in a big and successful company; 
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• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits; 
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• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions. 
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Join Ciklum and &laquo;Cross the Borders&raquo; together with us!
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If you are interested &ndash; please send your CV on hr@ciklum.com
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:45:33 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>C++ Developer for Playtech Videobet</title>
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<p class="DetailTextLarge"><strong>Ciklum</strong> is a Danish IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine. 
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Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1650 IT-specialists worldwide with more than 170+ current clients own development teams. Ciklum has pioneered a unique business model in Ukraine where employees have direct communication with the client and are equal to clients` home-based colleagues Developers directly communicate with European colleagues, affecting the product and business customers.
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Ciklum has development offices in six cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Vinnytsia), Belarus (Minsk) and Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad), as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. 
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We believe that professional and personal growth is essential, so we create an atmosphere in which a man easily achieves his potential. We support any initiative, aimed at sharing knowledge and development. We have more than 10 self-driven Practice Leaders Groups (. NET, QA, Management &amp; Communication, Mobile Technologies, etc.). Therefore, every employee can easily find colleagues with similar interests.
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On behalf of <strong>Playtech</strong> (www.playtech.com) we are looking for <strong>C++ Developer.</strong>
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Playtech is the world&rsquo;s largest publicly-traded online gaming software supplier. Since Playtech’s inception in 1999, our approach has been centered on the continual development of best-of-breed gaming products and content, and our success built upon strong partnerships with our licensees. Playtech’s product suite can be fully integrated into a complete cross platform offering, enabling players to access online, broadcast, mobile and server-based gaming terminals through a single account.
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<strong>Requirements</strong>
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&bull; Good level of C++ (STL)
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• Experience in Win API
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• Experience with Object-oriented design-patterns
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• Experience in MFC is a plus 
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• Experience in software development life cycle is a plus
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• Experience in Java is a plus
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<strong>Ciklum offers you:</strong>
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• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;
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• A lot of various technical seminars;
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• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;
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• Competitive salary;
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• Career and professional growth;
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• Possibility to work in a big and successful company;
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• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;
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• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.
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Join Ciklum and &laquo;Cross the Borders&raquo; together with us! 
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If you are interested &ndash; please send your CV on hr@ciklum.com
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:28:11 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>PHP developer for CSC Project Office</title>
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<p class="DetailTextLarge"><strong>Ciklum</strong> is a Danish IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine. 
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Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1650 IT-specialists worldwide with more than 170+ current clients own development teams. Ciklum has pioneered a unique business model in Ukraine where employees have direct communication with the client and are equal to clients` home-based colleagues Developers directly communicate with European colleagues, affecting the product and business customers.
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Ciklum has development offices in six cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Vinnytsia), Belarus (Minsk) and Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad), as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. 
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We believe that professional and personal growth is essential, so we create an atmosphere in which a man easily achieves his potential. We support any initiative, aimed at sharing knowledge and development. We have more than 10 self-driven Practice Leaders Groups (. NET, QA, Management &amp; Communication, Mobile Technologies, etc.). Therefore, every employee can easily find colleagues with similar interests.
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Ciklum www.ciklum.com is looking for <strong>PHP developer for CSC Project Office</strong>. 
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PHP developer position implies development of PHP based solutions based on industry standard frameworks and CMS&rsquo;. The department is in fast growth stage, so working in dynamic environment, managing distributed team (many locations in Ukraine, and some in Pakistan), and other challenges are guaranteed. 
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You will be interacting with Head of Project Office, Team Lead, Developers, Project Managers and have a possibility to become a senior developer in a big international team.
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<strong>Job description, tasks:</strong> 
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&bull; Developing technical solutions and architectures of the web projects 
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• Coding 
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• Maintain project documentation
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<strong>Requirements:</strong> 
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- 3+ years in PHP web development
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- OOP/OOD 
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- PHP 5
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- HTML/CSS, JavaScript 
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- Joomla, Magento, Drupal, WordPress
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- Symfony, Zend 
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- MySQL 
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- SVN, Git 
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<strong>Personal</strong>:
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- Solution-oriented, technical, hard-working and reliable person needed
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- At least intermediate English level
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<strong>Ciklum offers you:
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  </strong>• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities;
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• A lot of various technical seminars;
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• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client;
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• Competitive salary;
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• Career and professional growth;
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• Possibility to work in a big and successful company;
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• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits;
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• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions.
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Join Ciklum and &laquo;Cross the Borders&raquo; together with us! 
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If you are interested &ndash; please send your CV on hr@ciklum.com
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:23:45 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>Android developer for ChartsNow</title>
	<link>http://www.ciklum.net/join/careers/Android-developer-for-ChartsNow/</link>
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<p class="DetailTextLarge"><strong>Ciklum</strong> is a Danish innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine. 
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Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1650 IT-specialists worldwide with more than 170+ current clients own development teams. Ciklum has pioneered a unique business model in Ukraine where employees have direct communication with the client and are equal to clients` home-based colleagues Developers directly communicate with European colleagues, directly affecting the product and business customers 
  <br />
Ciklum has development offices in six cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Vinnytsia), Belarus (Minsk) and Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad), as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. 
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We believe that professional and personal growth is essential, so we create an atmosphere in which a man easily achieves his potential. We support any initiative, aimed at sharing knowledge and development. We have more than 10 self-driven Practice Leaders Groups (. NET, QA, Management &amp; Communication, Mobile Technologies, etc.). Therefore, every employee can easily find colleagues with similar interests 
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On behalf of <strong>ChartsNow</strong> company, <strong>Ciklum</strong> (<a href="www.ciklum.net" >www.ciklum.net</a>) is looking for an <strong>Android developer</strong>. 
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<strong>About team:</strong> 
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<strong>ChartsNow</strong> is an innovative, new mobile music subscription service, which turns any mobile phone into a music player that works instantly, like an mp3 player, without requiring network access. 
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We deliver a chart of 20 to 40 tracks, overnight, to the user to make efficient use of network bandwidth. So, every morning, the user has new music instantly available to them. 
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The user typically subscribes to the service and if they wish to keep any particular tracks, they can buy them. 
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We are working with partners such as HMV, Clubland, Tesco and Vodafone to build branded versions of the ChartsNow application with a range of &lsquo;Charts&rsquo; selected by the partner to meet their users’ needs. We can build the entire offering and simply white-label it or we can provide just the core technology required. 
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<strong>Main product:</strong> 
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The music player for standard (and smart) mobile phones delivering instant play for the user without data connection with new, curated content every 24 hours and efficient, overnight delivery to utilize unused mobile data bandwidth. 
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The payer will provide consumers with charts. We allow the creation of upto twenty charts. The music charts will be updated on at least a weekly basis with new tracks being made available to the user as they enter the chart. The content is &ldquo;tethered&rdquo; downloads, cached on the mobile handset, so that they can be played at any time without the need for a connection. The use of tethered downloads means that there is no ownership of tracks and payments to content owners are made on a low cost streaming economic model. The service is complemented with updated entertainment news editorial and has a social networking function, through Facebook, and Twitter, which allows users to engage and share with peers. ChartsNow allows users to buy their favorite tracks. 
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ChartsNow is designed to be platform agnostic and can run on all music enabled handsets including iPhones, Android, Windows, Symbian and Java operating systems. 
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<strong>Main responsibilities:</strong> 
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&bull; Developing application on corresponding platform 
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<strong>The successful candidate should meet the following requirements</strong>: 
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• Education: university diploma in IT 
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• 2+ year development experience 
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• Android development experience 
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• Willingness to learn iPhone, Blackberry, Java/Symbian 
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• Passion for mobile applications in general 
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• Experience with Agile &amp; Scrum would be a plus 
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• English skills would be a plus</p>

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<strong>Ciklum offers you: 
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  </strong>• Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities 
  <br />
• A lot of various technical seminars 
  <br />
• Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client 
  <br />
• Competitive salary 
  <br />
• Career and professional growth 
  <br />
• Possibility to work in a big and successful company 
  <br />
• Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits 
  <br />
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions 
  <br />

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Join Ciklum and &laquo;Cross the Borders&raquo; together with us! 
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If you are interested &ndash; please send your CV on hr@ciklum.com 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:32:48 +0300</pubDate>
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	<title>Mobile App Developer (Windows Phone 7)</title>
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<p class="DetailTextLarge"><b>About company: </b> 
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 <b>Ciklum</b> is a Danish innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Ukraine. 
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 Established in 2002, Ciklum employs more than 1650 IT-specialists worldwide with more than 170+ current clients own development teams. Ciklum has pioneered a unique business model in Ukraine where employees have direct communication with the client and are equal to clients` home-based colleagues. Developers directly communicate with European colleagues, affecting the product and business customers. 
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 Ciklum has development offices in six cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Vinnytsia), Belarus (Minsk) and Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad), as well as representative offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. 
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 We believe that professional and personal growth is essential, so we create an atmosphere in which a man easily achieves his potential. We support any initiative, aimed at sharing knowledge and development. We have more than 10 self-driven Practice Leaders Groups (.NET, QA, Management &amp; Communication, Mobile Technologies, etc.). Therefore, every employee can easily find colleagues with similar interests. 
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 On behalf of our Canadian client we are looking for a <b>Mobile App Software Developer for Windows Phone 7</b>. 
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 <b>About project:</b> 
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 <b>Contac Services Inc.</b> is a global, multi-disciplinary leader specializing in one to one data driven communication and supply chain management. Contac blends its full suite of products and services with state of the art technology to provide completely integrated solutions that give clients winning and measurable results. In its 35th year of business, Contac provides a comprehensive range of products and services to major brands around the world across its eConcierge&trade;, supply chain management, online marketing, and travel technology platforms to build brand and customer loyalty. 
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 Today Contac provides the highest quality production, lowest cost and fastest distribution of marketing solutions to major brands around the world. Headquartered in Vancouver, B.C., Contac has facilities in Toronto as well as Montreal. Our goal is to continue to develop and expand both our Company and our people. 
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 <b>Main responsibilities and requirements:</b> 
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 This position resides within our Core Services team, which reports directly to the Team Lead. Software developers within Core Services are responsible to write, modify, integrate and test software code for Windows Phone 7 mobile applications, data processing applications, operating systems-level software and communications software. The successful candidate must be a dynamic individual with intimate knowledge of the latest trends and tools utilized in web applications on the Internet and the ability to push the development boundaries. 
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 <u>Responsibilities:</u> 
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 &bull;	At least 2 years of experience with development with Visual Studio 
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 •	At least 2 years of experience with web development 
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 •	At least 1-2 years of experience with development of native Windows Phone 7 applications 
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 •	At least 1-2 years of experience with Silverlight/C# and XAML 
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 •	Experience with released market apps 
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 •	Experience with location based technologies 
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 •	Development of any kind of SDK - big Plus 
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 •	High level of learning ability 
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 •	Willingness to learn and investigate Learn and understand the PURL composition life cycle Contac uses. 
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 •	Ability to work independently on projects from requirements gathering through system design, coding and implementation. 
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 •	Ability to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines while working under pressure 
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 •	Identify and communicate technical problems, processes and solutions 
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 •	May research and evaluate a variety of software products 
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 •	Other duties as assigned 
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 <u>Nice to Have:</u> 
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 •	Familiarity with other mobile application development technologies &ndash; a plus 
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 •	RESTful/JSON API exposure for mobile development is a plus 
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 •	Social media integration and tools - a plus 
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 •	Experience with XNA 
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 <u>Skills:</u> 
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 •	Database design 
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 •	Layered and object-oriented programming 
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 •	Distributed programming 
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 •	HTTP protocol, including authorization, cache control, and proxy 
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 •	web security, data security, network security 
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 •	Excellent documentation and communication skills, both written and verbal 
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 •	Ability to handle (sometimes) stressful work environment in a professional manner 
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 •	Ability to take responsibility and complete work with minimal supervision 
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 •	Good attention to details 
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 <u>Experience:</u> 
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 The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor&rsquo;s degree and/or a two year diploma in computer science or another discipline with a significant programming component or completion of a college program in computer science. 
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 Flexibility needed to work on call, unusual hours or extended shifts when necessary. 
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 <b>Ciklum offers you:</b> 
  <br />
 
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 •	Variety of knowledge sharing and training opportunities 
  <br />
 •	A lot of various technical seminars 
  <br />
 •	Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client 
  <br />
 •	Competitive salary 
  <br />
 •	Career and professional growth 
  <br />
 •	Possibility to work in a big and successful company 
  <br />
 •	Long-term employment with 20 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits 
  <br />
 •	State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions 
  <br />
 
  <br />
 <b>Join Ciklum and &laquo;Cross the Borders&raquo; together with us!</b> 
  <br />
 
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 If you are interested – please send your CV to: 
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  <br />
 Anastasiya Yerosheva 
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 Recruitment lead (Odessa) 
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 E: anye@ciklum.net 
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 S: anastasia_20041987</p>
 
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:29:01 +0300</pubDate>
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