My Employer

I work as a developer at Gestalt, LLC, in the Joplin, MO, office. We mainly work in Java, with a bit of Flex on the side. As an example, we are working on a Java web service that interfaces with a Flex client embedded in an HTML document. Some of our other offices are working in C#, as well as other languages. We mainly focus on DoD projects, with some Energy & Utility work, as well. As we use an Agile process (mostly based on Scrum), the work is fast-paced and exciting. Every month, your 3- to 7-person team bites off another chunk of the overall project to work on. You then take that chunk to completion, before working on anything else (instead of taking all parts of a program a bit at a time). The developers are essentially in control of the implementation, as the only direction given by a solution owner is what capabilities he wants; technical direction is up to the team. Development is also fairly democratic, as no one on a team really "outranks" anyone else.

We have 9 offices:
Joplin, MO
King of Prussia, PA
Camden, NJ
Orlando, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Hampton, VA
Fairfax, VA
Las Vegas, NV
Toronto, Ontario

If you would be interested in joining us, send me your résumé at samljones@gmail.com and I'll pass it on to the appropriate people.