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My former company just announce another round of layoffs. However, in a lighter note, some former employees of mine are looking for those type of people to place them. Again, you did not get it from me. :)

Hi Everyone,
I have started a company called The Harvest Group along with 2 other former Sapient hiring team members, Kevin Murray and Jim Klingel. The Harvest Group works collaboratively with people and corporations to make unique connections in business. We enhance our clients? ability to hire, retain, and grow a workforce that can thrive in today's dynamic economy and we enrich our candidates' careers by helping them to find their ideal work environment.

We are currently working with a number of clients in Boston, Philadelphia, and the Greater NJ/NY area that are looking for Sapient caliber people. To view our current job openings, please visit www.harvestgroup.biz where you can search or browse through our open positions. You can contact us through the website or feel free to contact me directly at 609.448.3796 or email me at kfrazier@harvestgroup.biz.

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: Technology Strategist
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: Hopewell
State: New Jersey
Location: New Jersey-Central
Career Level: 2+ years of experience
Salary: 75,000 - 100,000 plus bonus
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A premier Financial Management and Advisory Company is seeking a Technology Strategist for their US Private Client Technology Group. The Technology Strategist will be a key member of the Strategy and Vendor Sourcing (SVS) team, reporting to the US Private Client Chief Technology Officer. The team's mandate is to define and communicate the strategy of the group and to create new and innovative approaches to the development and management of business critical systems. These new approaches will include researching and communicating insourcing/outsourcing opportunities to ensure that the technology strategy is contunually attuned to the radical trasfromations that are taking place in the financail servies industry. Strategic Planning & Implementation: Work with technology and business teams to ensure that a proactive approach to processes, projects, resources, and vendors is used. Business Strategies: Helping business units understand how to better leverage their technology investments.
Requirements: Must have a minimum of 2 years on-the-job experience working on strategic and tactical consulting engagements for clients. Previous employment with a mainstream consulting company (Financial Services Technology experience preferred). Extensive experience with quantitative and qualitative research. Experience with the indentification and negotiation of technology outsourcing/ASP opportunities. Experience in conducting technical and functional audits of operating units for the purpose of assessing conformance with, and measuring performance to, a strategic plan. Must have the ability to put people at ease and to instill a high degree of trust quickly and genuinely. A strong ability to manage day-to-day interactions and relationships with a diverse group of clients. Must have high integrity, motivation, energy, and enthusiasm. Must be self directed. Must possess excellent communication skills - oral, written, and presentation. Have demonstrated the ability to get things done and make things happen. Very resourceful, seizes opportunities and is an innivator. An entrepreneurial individual who is not afraid to challenge conventional thinking. Creative "think outside the box" mentality.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: Senior Developer / Junior Architect (1)
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: New York
State: New York
Location: New York-New York City
Career Level: 2+ years of experience
Salary: Open
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A Large Mutual Fund Company is looking for a Senior Developer/Junior Architect to join their Research & Portfolio Services / Equity Portfolio Services team. The role would be to analyze, design and develop business application solutions to best serve this clients' Equity Portfolio managers.
Requirements: 2+ years of experience working in a technology area servicing Equities investment industry. The candidate should demonstrate good working knowledge of Equity products including stock valuation, trading services and portfolio accounting. Excellent understanding of the Securities industry and investment business processes with emphasis on buy-side equities. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. The candidate must be able to quickly grasp new business concepts in order to deliver timely solutions. Communication Skills: Excellent oral and written skills are required. Candidate must be able to effectively communicate project, business process and technology details to team members as well as internal clients. Documentation of business requirements, best practice business flows and business proposals is also required. Leadership / General Management Skills: Excellent multi-tasking and resource utilization skills are required. The candidate should feel comfortable assuming a leadership role during his or her manager's absence. Ability to manage time effectively, provide realistic estimates and plans, and asses and communicate the effects and impact of requirements to team, manager and clients. Demonstrated ability to work on a team and help build team dynamics and refine software development processes.
Technical Skills: 6+ years of strong hands on design/development experience including: Strong practical knowledge of SQL (Sybase SQL Server and stored procedures a plus) 2+ years of strong hands on experience with J2EE technologies: Especially JSP, JDBC, EJB, Java Script and HTML. Web-Logic server a plus. Working knowledge of XML especially efficient use of parser libraries. Good working knowledge of UNIX operating system and shell scripting is a plus.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: Senior Developer / Junior Architect (2)
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: New York
State: New York
Location: New York-New York City
Career Level: 2+ years of experience
Salary: Open
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A large Mutual Fund Company is seeking a Senior Developer / Junior Architect to join their Research & Portfolio Services / Fixed Income Portfolio Services team. The role will be to analyze, design and develop technical solutions to best serve our Fixed Income Portfolio managers.
Requirements: 2+ years of experience working in a technology area servicing Fixed Income investment industry. The candidate should demonstrate good working knowledge of Fixed Income software products (e.g. Bloomberg, Yieldbook). Experience with Bloomberg API/SDK is a plus. Excellent understanding of the Securities industry and investment business processes with emphasis on fixed income and derivative instruments. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. The candidate must be able to quickly grasp new business concepts in order to deliver timely solutions for the Fixed Income, & Product Development/Risk Management departments. Business Skills: 2+ years of experience working in a technology area servicing Fixed Income investment industry. The candidate should demonstrate good working knowledge of Fixed Income software products (e.g. Bloomberg, Yieldbook). Experience with Bloomberg API/SDK is a plus. Excellent understanding of the Securities industry and investment business processes with emphasis on fixed income and derivative instruments. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. The candidate must be able to quickly grasp new business concepts in order to deliver timely solutions for the Fixed Income, & Product Development/Risk Management departments.
Communication Skills: Excellent oral and written skills are required. Candidate must be able to effectively communicate project, business process and technology details to team members as well as internal clients. Documentation of business requirements, best practice business flows and business proposals is also required. Project Management / General Management Skills: 2+ years of project management experience is a plus. Excellent multi-tasking and resource utilization skills are required. Staff and budget management experience is a plus. The candidate should feel comfortable assuming a leadership role during his or her manager's absence.
Technical Skills: 6+ years of strong hands on design/development experience including the following: Excellent practical knowledge of Sybase SQL Server (or equivalent), SQL and stored procedures. 2+ years of strong hands on experience with J2EE technologies: Java 2.0, Enterprise Java Beans, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, RMI, JDBC, JMS, Java Security, Java Script and HTML. Working knowledge of XML. Good working knowledge of UNIX operating system and shell scripting is a plus. Working knowledge of ASP and related Microsoft technologies is a plus.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: Senior Developer / Junior Architect (3)
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: New York
State: New York
Location: New York-New York City
Career Level: 2+ years of experience
Salary: Open
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A large Mutual Fund Company is looking for a Senior Develop / Junior Architect to join their Trading & Integration Services team. The role will be to analyze, plan and implement the steps necessary to comply with T+1 settlement while also leveraging XML messaging technology to move our firm toward a zero-latency/ STP capability.
Requirements: 2+ years of experience working in a technology area servicing investment departments (Equity, FI). Excellent understanding of the Securities industry, investment business processes and financial instruments (stocks, bonds, derivatives instruments) is required. Requires a strong understanding of industry issues, trends and resolutions, regarding STP/T+1. Strong understanding of Financial messaging standards including Fix protocol, ISITC and XML. Strong understanding of the full trading/investment cycle "front to back".
Communication Skills: Excellent oral and written skills are required. Candidate must be able to effectively communicate with peers, managers, vendors and business users. Fluent participation in technical / architectural discussions and design meetings is a must.

Project Management Skills: Candidate must be familiar with project management techniques and comfortable with providing and meeting time estimates for assigned tasks.
General Management Skills: Applicant must be highly skilled in time management to facilitate involvement in multiple projects.
Technical Skills: 5+ years of hands on development experience including the following technologies: Sybase SQL Server (Adaptive Server Enterprise) or MS SQL Server 7, excellent hands on experience of Transact SQL and stored procedures. 2+ years experience in building trading links and/or trading systems integration. 2+years experience in building messaging infrastructure between trading systems using XML and Fix protocol. 1+ years experience in building timely, accurate and electronic communication processes to support the T+1 and STP initiatives. 1+ years of solid hands on experience with J2EE technologies: Java 2.0, Enterprise Java Beans, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, RMI, JDBC, JMS, Java Security, Java Script and HTML. Strong knowledge of OO design methodology and UML as well as good understanding of component based system architectures and N-tier technologies is necessary. Knowledge of Microsoft.Net XML Web services and IIS is a big plus Good working knowledge of Windows NT/2000 operating system. UNIX Shell Scripting is a plus.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: Senior Business Analyst
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: New York
State: New York
Location: New York-New York City
Career Level: 2+ years of experience
Salary: Open
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A large Mutual Fund Company is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their Business Liason Services Team. The role is to ensure the alignment of our development efforts with the business needs of our Investment Professionals. The focus will be on requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, project management and relationship management. This position will leverage these skills to enable the delivery of timely solutions across the Front, Middle and Back offices.
Requirements: 2+ years of experience working in a technology area servicing investment departments (e.g. Equity, Fixed Income, FX). Requires a VERY STRONG understanding of the Securities industry, financial instruments (e.g. stocks, bonds, derivatives instruments) and investment processes.
Communication Skills: EXCELLENT verbal, written and listening skills are required. Candidate must have a strong presence and exhibit a "can do" attitude balanced by an extremely approachable demeanor. Strong presentation, negotiation and project management skills are a must. A comfort with financial calculations and analytical systems is also required. Candidate should be able to effectively communicate about projects, negotiate deadlines; document requirements; discuss technical and business proposals. This individual must be able to "manage the relationship" with investment professionals by "speaking their language" and ultimately help us to align our technology vision with the long-term objectives of the business.
Project Management Skills: Strong project experience from both the operational (planning, allocation and management) and the people (motivation, direction and management) perspectives is extremely important.
Technical Skills: 2+ years of analysis experience with knowledge of UML. Strong understanding of the "N-Tier" development process and Web technologies is critical. Knowledge of object modeling and data modeling techniques. Familiarity with XML and/or messaging systems is a plus. User interface design knowledge desirable.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: CRM Senior Business Lead
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: Woodbridge
State: New Jersey
Location: New Jersey-Central
Career Level: Manager / Director of Staff
Salary: Open
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A premier Wealth Management Firm is seeking a Senior Business Lead with CRM (Siebel) experience to work closely with Private Bankers in developing critial business requirements for a large CRM implementation.
Requirements: Responsible for serving as a subject matter expert for large CRM Implementation in high net worth domain. Act as chief liason between Private Bankers and technical project team. Work closely with front office personnel to gather business requirements and help to shape future release functionality.
Business Skills: This role requires an ability to quickly grasp complex business challeges. Ability to help technical personnel translate business problems into verifiable business requirements.
Technology Skills: Must have solid understanding of the business use of CRM technologies (Siebel preferred)
Management Skills: Must have strong communication and social skills. Strong follow-up and documentation skills are a must. Ability to manage a small group of business analysts.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: CRM Project Manager
Industry: Financial and Investments
Job Category: Information Technology
City: Woodbridge
State: New Jersey
Location: New Jersey-Central
Career Level: Manager / Director of Staff
Salary: Open Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A premier Wealth Management Firm is seeking a strong Project Manager to run a large CRM (Siebel) implementation.
Requirements: 5+ years of project management experience preferably in the Wealth Management Industy. Experience implementing large CRM solutions, (Siebel preferred) in the Financial Services Industry (high net worth a plus). Must have solid understanding of business design, technical design, and implementation processes. Must be able to drive team to reach critical milestones. Ability to build consensus among disparate points of view is a plus.
Communication Skills: This role requires extensive project management, document management, cross project coordination, and executive-level presentation experience. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills are required.
Post Date: 2/26/2002

Company: The Harvest Group
Position: Channel Sales Manager
Industry: Other
Job Category: Sales
City: Blue Bell
State: Pennsylvania
Location: Pennsylvania-Philadelphia
Career Level: Manager / Director of Staff
Salary: Open
Start Date: 3/1/2002
Description: A start-up Wireless Technology company is looking for a seasoned Channel Sales Manager. The company is headquartered in Blue Bell, PA but this person can be based out of any city. Looking for experience in developing strategic partnerships with Systems Integrators and other related companies (Wireless preferred) to drive revenue growth. This comany has funding of approximately $250MM and is poised to take a strong leadership position in the Wireless marketplace.
Requirements: Qualified applicants should have 5+ years of experience in developing strategic partnerships, preferrably in the wireless technology space. Experience selling service-oriented solutions or technology platforms is preferred. Existing relationships with large systems integrators or wireless technology companies is a plus.
Skills: This person should be a real go getter. Able to work effectively with little management or direction. This is not a "sit back and manage a team" type of role. Looking for someone with a proven track record of developing strong partnerships that drive revenue growth.
Post Date: 2/26/2002