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From: Carrie Law claw@evite.com
Subject: San Francisco, CA: Data Mining positions at Evite
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:44:41 -0800
I am an internal technical recruiter with Evite.com in San Francisco and I
would love to post the following two jobs on your site!  Please feel free to
e-mail with any questions.

Evite, Inc. was established in 1997 to help people tap into the amazing
organizational power of the Internet to bring their friends, family and
colleagues together for events of all kinds. The Evite team shares a
single-minded passion to change the way people get together-basically by
making it easy and fun for all-and in the process build a dominant brand in
the $100 billion event-commerce market. This second-generation startup is
run by seasoned veterans of some of the most innovative and dynamic
companies around: AOL, Microsoft, GO Network, Netscape and When.com.

Evite.com is more than just another cool pre-IPO startup in San Francisco.
We're a high-energy group of connected, committed people who love what we do
and have a great time doing it-and we're hiring! We offer competitive
salaries and an excellent equity package, plus comprehensive health and
medical benefits. If you're interested, please send a resume and cover
letter to claw@evite.com.

Director of Statistics; Tracking and Data Mining
Job Description:
Lead, manage and direct our data mining team.  Design and implement a
reporting data mining application in conjunction with the data mining team.

Duties and Responsibilities:
* Design, implement and oversee the development of a scaleable statistics
and reporting application from the ground up
* Hire and manage a team of Java application programmers
* Partner with our Marketing, Business Development and Product Teams to
define the reporting system
* Direct engineers and resources to ensure deadlines are met

Requirements:
* 2+ years of data mining experience working with large a large website
* Understanding of click stream and tracking large web user bases
* 1+ years Java programming and development of scaleable web applications in
Java
* 2+ years experience with SQL and Oracle
* 3+ years of technical team leadership experience with proven abilities in
estimating and managing projects required
* Strong background in internet technology and software development

Pluses:
* An understanding of the issues involved in collecting, storing, and
managing large scale data sets

Intangibles:
* Strong communication skills
* Solid understanding of the impact of statistics and reporting on business
decisions

Education:
* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience required


Data Mining Engineer
Job Description:
The Data Mining Engineer will assist in building and running an integrated
data mining system for Evite.com.  The engineer will develop data mining
algorithms as well as analyze and predict user behavior based on user click
stream and log file data collected from our web site.

Duties and Responsibilities:
* Responsible for the development and enhancement of scripts, algorithms,
and reporting applications
* Maintain and develop program reporting tools and solutions for internal
and external groups
* Work with multiple development and business groups to fulfill user data
requests
* Produce and analyze the click stream and log file data

Requirements:
* 2+ years with Java
* 3+ years with SQL
* 2+ years with Oracle
* Experience working with large data sets
* Hands on experience working with statistics, algorithms, and data mining.

Pluses:
* Knowledge of data warehousing

Intangibles:
* Good verbal and written communication skills.
* Passion to work with and help build a highly accurate, scalable data
mining system.

Education:
* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience


Carrie Law - Recruiter
415.343.3615
Evite.com

"Getting Your Friends Together Just Got Easier!"


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