Technical Screening: This Is How We Do It

A Panel Discussion featuring Dale Brubaker, Dave Fancher, and Ed Herceg

Moderated by Mark Huebner

IndyNDA at Parkwood East, Building Nine, 96th & College Join us for the 132nd IndyNDA Monthly Meeting on Thursday, January 12 in Parkwood East, Buiilding Nine at 900 E. 96th Street on the second floor. We will meet here in January and February, and return to Wiley (Wrox).

Join us for a panel discussion on Technical Screening. with audience participation encouraged. Some say companies and recruiting firms are using tests based on incorrect assumptions on how developers do their work. C# and jQuery and JavaScript and VB and the .NET framework continue to offer new capabilities. The complexity has generally not been a problem for you because you make liberal use of Intellisense, online help, books online, reference books, Google searches, and technical online forums. You know how to quickly find information when you can’t remember specific syntax. So, can you pass that technical screening test? Should you need to be tested? Let's find out.

About the moderator

Mark Huebner has a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and over 20 years of experience as a programmer/analyst designing and developing business, scientific, engineering, environmental, medical, defense, and real-time/embedded applications. He has done work for companies/government agencies such as Bostwick Laboratories, PSNC Energy (SCANA), U.S. Air Force, Science Applications International, EPA, General Dynamics, General Electric, and Cutler-Hammer. Mr. Huebner has focused his career on C# and related Microsoft .NET software technology since 2002 and has been a C# developer since 2006.

About the panelists

Dale Brubaker is a Software Engineer at Interactive Intelligence. He is an experienced software developer with broad and deep background using software to add efficiency and effectiveness to a wide range of business processes. Dale most enjoys developing software that enhances organizational productivity.

Ed Herceg a Senior Technical Recruiter with Robert Half Technology. He specializes in the recruiting and placing of .NET developers for RHT. If you have a solid development background in VB, ASP, C#, Java, Oracle or SQL, you should know each other.

Dave Fancher is a Principal Software Engineer at Aprimo in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has been building software with C# and the .NET Framework since version 1.1 and is active with both the IndyNDA and Indy TFS user groups. Most recently he has been focusing on getting the most out of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation System. When not writing code Dave enjoys spending time with his family, photography, and gaming on on his Xbox 360.