Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Google Jobs

Today we learned about the available jobs you can apply for around the world for Google.  Here are a few:

Sales Engineer for Google fiber:  located in Kansas City, Kansas.  Google Fiber can reach thousands of users. Google Fiber is an exciting new business for Google aiming to deploy next generation, gigabit Internet speeds to the home. Why join the Google Fiber team? Because they've got some ambitions. In October of 2012 they began in-home installs of our ultra-high speed network in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, but that was just the beginning. They'd love for you to join them in helping to reshape and revolutionize the way people connect to the web!

Responsibilities:
  • Understand customer goals and challenges; establish Google Fiber as the best product available
  • Lead pre-sales activities including problem definition, solution architecture, network design and expectation management
  • Participate in the development and delivery of differentiated solutions and presentations to key business decision makers
  • Articulate advanced technical concepts to CIOs, IT managers and other decision makers 

Minimum Qualifications
  • BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)
  • Expertise in requirements definition, network architecture and network engineering
Job Details
Team or Role:
Technical Solutions
Work Schedule:
Full-time
Date Posted:
Jan 30, 2013
Job Location(s):
Kansas City, KS
 
Google Fiber Team
Full Time
Jan 30, 2013
 
 
Global Process Manager: Council Bluffs, IA
Google's projects, like there users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges they face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your technical and leadership expertise, you run Engineering-focused projects that are well-defined under supervision.

Minimum Qualifications
BA/BS degree (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)

Responsibilities
  • Define, manage, maintain, and improve processes within Google’s hardware and software infrastructure.
  • Act as the lead communicator on process between various projects and groups, and the functional area(s).
  • Encourage innovation, process improvements and solutions within the functional area(s).
  • Act as an advocate for function and process on software design teams for the group.
  • Manage Program Managers and tech writers
Job Details
Team or Role:
Technical Infrastructure
Work Schedule:
Full-time
Date Posted:
Dec 20, 2012
Job Location(s):
Council Bluffs, IA
 
 
Data Facilities Manager: Council Bluffs, IA
The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. Facilities Technicians on this team operate, monitor and support all facilities activity at Google's data centers. You take ownership of the operation and maintenance of water pumps and treatment systems, HVAC, UPS, generators, electrical distribution and control and monitoring Systems. You're at the forefront of best-in-class environmental practices. You bring the ideas of our Data Center Engineers to life and develop creative approaches to reducing operational costs while improving efficiencies. You ensure that problems are identified and repaired quickly, that contractors deliver quality services and preventive maintenance, and that safety measures are being performed. In emergency situations or abnormal conditions, you respond to data center performance issues and outages to minimize the recovery time from failures.
 
Minimum Qualifications
  • BA/BS in a technical field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience).
  • 3 years experience as a facilities manager or chief engineer including management and project management experience.
Responsibilities
  • Find creative ways to keep operation costs to a minimum.
  • Work outside of the box with team members to improve efficiency and implement new data center strategies.
  • Ensure the ongoing operation of the data center.
  • Ensure that contractors are delivering quality services and that all customer demands are being met.
Job Details
Team or Role:
Data Center & Network
Work Schedule:
Full-time
Date Posted:
Jan 08, 2013
Job Location(s):
Council Bluffs, IA
 




Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Google doodle

What is a Google Doodle? A google doodle is the icon for google that changes each day pertaining to a certain topic.  There's all different kinds of subjects from birthdays to special days in other countries or holidays or important other dates.  There's games and videos and pictures of the subjects that you can play.  You can't say you haven't wondered why Google changes there icon EVERY day?  Well now you know!  The most known doodle was this year and it was the 30th anniversary of the came we all know; Pacman.  Go explore the wide vast majority of Google doodles now!  My picture is from last years Olympics in London, England.  The doodles are games you can play like basketball, soccer, hurdles, and slalom canoe.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Google drive app google drive web

The last couple days we've been exploring google drive on our mac's and mobile devices.  They're pretty much the same thing, the app and the web version.  They both do the same things like make documents, posters, etc. The only thing that might be different is that you cant draw on the app version.  Both are fun to utilize and work with friends on so its actually the same thing either or.  I prefer the app because its much clearer and easier to use.  But that's my opinion, go download google drive on your mobile.  Its available for iOS and Android.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

google drive



Today in class we explored the different things of google drive.  Google drive is a website that you can share different spreadsheets, documents, presentations, forms and drawings with people all over or you just send them in an email.  Or you can keep it for privater use for a job or schoolwork.  Google drive also allows you to be on the same document with as many people as you want at once!  That could come in handy for schoolwork or just have a conversation with your friends after school.  In my screenshot I was on a spreadsheet with my friends exploring the different availabilities of google drive.









Friday, February 8, 2013

animations

Today our teacher showed us different gif's of glowing animations.  I have a few on my page but its pretty much just a animation with whatever text you want to put inside it.  Theres a wide varity of colors and texts to choose from theres different websites you can choose between flashvortex.com or glowtext.com.  Have fun and happy blogging!


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Tips and tricks of Google

Today our class teacher wanted us to look for different tips and tricks of google. Some of the fun ones she shows us was the Google gravity. Google gravity is when you search google gravity it is another search engine but when you try to search gravity pulls everything to the bottom of the page! Another is PAC-Man which is a game that google is celebrating the 30th anniversary of PAC-Man and its just a PAC-man game on the computer. Another is a game called milkman monster truck which is a game on google earth which you can drive a milk truck all over the earth into the buildings and over cars all over the world! It's just like a vacation but from the comfort of your own home. Have fun and happy blogging!

Monday, February 4, 2013

firefox add-ons

Today we explored more with firefox add-ons.  Some useful add-ons are calculator witch gives you a useful calculator. http://code.google.com/p/firefoxcalculator/

Another is 365 for all you sports fans.  365 lets you add all your favorite teams to the bottom of your toolbar.  http://biz.365scores.com/


A fun add-on is destroy the web, which lets you try and destroy all the items on a page as fast you can. http://www.destroytheweb.net/

An add-on that makes your browser better looking that makes your tabs colorful is colorfultabs.
http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/

Another is http://translatorforfirefox.blogspot.com/ which gives you a translator.

Another browser clothing is personas' rotation which switches your personas' so you don't have to keep looking at the same persona. http://barisderin.com/?p=121

Another fun add-on is drums which lets your keyboard play a different percussion instrument. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-drums/?src=api

a fun add-on is red vs. blue which is a game you can play to pass the time. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/red-vs-blue/?src=api


A helpful add-on is panic button whitch hides your browser quickly. http://aecreations.mozdev.org/

http://techfactory.net/ is a website which lets you play a varity of games to pass the time.

flashvortex