Senior Practice Manager

Required Education and Experience 
Applicants must meet one of the following education and experience requirements: 
* 8 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree in CS/MIS, EE, ME, Physics or relevant technical field experience 
* 6 years of relevant experience and a Master’s degree in CS/MIS, EE, ME or Physics. 

Required Skills 
* Minimum 8 years of overall experience such as customer support, web development, or professional services
* Minimum 3 years of management experience including overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.
* Minimum 2 years of experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS and web servers.
* Minimum 1.5 years of experience in managing a manager 

Desired Skills 
* Strong written and verbal communication
* Prior experience managing managers and a team of 50 people or more
* IT solution delivery experience, preferably within a consulting organization.
* Experience with running and analyzing metrics and forecast data
* Successful leadership on medium and long term projects, (6+ months)
* Experience in mentoring new hires and experienced staff members
* Proven ability to lead with informal authority
* Proven track record of hiring and retaining top-talent
* Experience implementing enterprise scale J2EE or .NET projects with direct client exposure.
* Experience with UNIX and one or more web development languages, methodologies, and/or architectures – HTTP, DNS, Perl, PHP, Shell Scripting, J2EE, .NET, C#, JSP, ASP, Tomcat, Apache.
* Experience with TCP/IP network debugging with tcpdump or similar.
* General exposure to security technologies, processes, and concepts such as PKI, SSL, firewalls, NIST 800-53, FIPS-140-2, Authentication & Authorization, Client Certificates, OCSP, etc. a plus.
* Experience delivering streaming technologies in the enterprise or B2C, including encoding, server technologies, client and server playlists/metafiles, custom media player creation, DRM a plus.
* Working knowledge of the full software development life.