1.  Vice President-Chief Information Officer – Our retained client is seeking a new VP and CIO for a 500+ bed hospital and wellness center in Northeast Ohio. The health system has been recognized as “Most Wired” and one of the “Best 99 Places to Work” in NE Ohio. They seek a visionary who is connected and experienced, to lead a highly motivated, successful and respected staff. The CIO will direct the overall strategic planning for the integration of integration services. Responsibilities include planning, management and integration of clinical, financial and business information systems, networking, data administration, assisting departments in the systematic review, acquisition and implementation of new information technology and management of centralized information services resources. The CIO insures that information technology meets the patient care and business needs for the Health System.

     A Master’s Degree is required, with strong experience in clinical systems, clinical practice, healthcare business orientation as well as information systems technical orientation. The candidate must have excellent communication ability as well as strong organizational and management skills, including personnel management, project management and budgeting. Demonstrated leadership skills in the development of staff. Significant experience in the implementation of major information technology systems. Ten years or more years of multidisciplinary experience in healthcare, healthcare information management and effective physician relations. The position offers a highly competitive compensation package including bonus, executive benefits and full relocation.

2.     Vice President of Infrastructure – Our Columbus, Ohio client is seeking a technology professional to oversee WAN/LAN, Operations, Telecommunications, Information Security, Disaster recovery, Vendor Management and Strategic Planning.  You will manage a staff of nearly 50 through 3 to 5 direct reports. High growth firm, very aggressive. Reports to CIO. Compensation $120,000 to $140,000.

3.     Director of IS Business Applications– Our Dallas client is replacing a successful senior executive who is retiring.  We are looking for an experienced health systems applications executive who has a passion to provide "best in class" new ideas and service levels to the organizations C level executives.  Phenomenal growth opportunity.  Siemens Envision experience a definite plus.  Salary range $90,000 to $140,000 plus no state income tax !!

4.     Senior Project Manager – Our retained client has asked us to locate a professional to define, plan and lead important, highly visible IT projects.  This manager must be able to develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.  Must develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.  Must be able to determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project teams, analyze the results and troubleshoot issues.  Manager will be required to deliver budgets and effectively communicate with team members and stakeholders.

We’re looking for 8-15 years experience with multiple projects, ideally in the manufacturing, process or related industries.  Should have experience in MS Project, Instantis Enterprise track or other project portfolio software. Salary range from $80,000 to $105,000.

5.     Manager of BASIS Infrastructure - SAP – Our retained Cleveland based client is adding a senior SAP professional to its well paid and highly motivated team. This 1 billion dollar firm has operations around the globe but still retains a small company feel. If you’re up for a little adventure, this role has it as you will lead SAP projects in China and Japan. Travel is about 30% on average. Beautiful offices in the western suburbs in an organization with very low turnover and high morale.

We are looking for the overachiever with a robust knowledge of networking infrastructure. Specifically detailed knowledge of SAP Basis and Authorizations areas, detailed knowledge of Microsoft operating systems and SQL Server with the ability to understand the entire technical landscape and how each component is integrated-network-O/S-DB-SAP. Your responsibilities include the ability to smoothly co-ordinate and manage project activities of projects, travel internationally and domestically periodically and work independently or as a member of a multi-national team.

We require minimum of five years SAP Basis / Authorizations administration experience with an international company. Experience should include installations, system management, performance tuning, creation and maintenance of authorization roles. Microsoft Active Directory, SQL Server, Java server components (with respect to SAP) is required. Lastly excellent analytical skills, problem solving abilities, an excellent work ethic and superb communication skills.

This is an exceptional opportunity with an excellent company. Salary is very competitive with excellent benefits including both a pension program and 401k with matching to 6%. There is also a bonus plan, 15 PTO days the first year plus 13 paid holidays. Business casual workplace and flex hours.

6.     SAP Business Process Analyst  / FICO – Our retained Cleveland based client is adding a senior SAP professional to its well paid and highly motivated team. This 1 billion dollar firm has operations around the globe but still retains a small company feel. If you’re up for a little adventure, this role has it as you will lead SAP projects in China and Japan. Travel is about 30% on average. Beautiful offices in the western suburbs in an organization with very low turnover and high morale.

This individual will support the company’s business groups with business process design and configuration using SAP costing, finance and possibly, project system modules in a multi-company, multi-country environment. Other responsibilities include documentation, configuration and process design, working independently or as a member of a multi-national team. You will proactively assess project alternatives and pre-empt user problems where possible. You will also interact with technical co-workers and accounting& finance colleagues.

This excellent career opportunity requires a minimum of five years SAP FICO experience with an international company. Solid knowledge of SAP costing, controlling and finance modules. Your experience should include both hands on configuration as well as management of associated FICO team activities. Experience working within the finance function or working with it on behalf of IT is essential.

This is an exceptional opportunity with an excellent company. Salary is very competitive with an excellent flexible benefits plan including both a pension program and 401k with matching. There is also a bonus plan, 15 PTO days the first year plus over 10 holidays. Business casual workplace and flex hours.

7.     Senior Oracle Technical Architect – Our client is looking for an Oracle DBA with five years of robust experience in administration, design and performance tuning with current Oracle products.  Critical to this role are very strong communication skills, both oral and written.  This position has high visibility and interfaces frequently with internal clients and IT management.

This opportunity is with an industry leader and features an outstanding compensation and benefits package.  Salary $90,000 to $110,000.

8.      Project Manager - Our client is adding a Project Manager to implement a wellness program that can be used internally or remarketed.  Characteristics of the program include point(s) tracking processes for healthy lifestyle activities.  The ideal candidate has a good projects background, is a charismatic, healthy lifestyle advocate and has a nursing background.  This is a full-time position with a prestige employer.

9.       Network Engineer - Our Akron client is looking for a Network Engineer in a small but complex network operations environment.  You will be responsible for all hardware solutions in the server, switch, router, wireless and related technologies.  Seven years or more experience in IT architecture, plus experience with TCP/IP communications, VOIP, Cisco switches and routers, VPN connectivity, and firewall configuration.  Experience with Ironport, Sourcefire, Shoretel phones or Websense knowledge a plus.

10.  CIO - Hospital – Our Houston client is upgrading its IT organization and adding an organizational CIO to be responsible for a 500 bed medical center.  The current ERP system is ancient (McKesson) and a requirement is the new CIO have experience in selection or implementation of a current state medical ERP system such as EPIC, Eclipsys, Cerner, etc.  Manage a team of 80 IT professionals.  A background in healthcare, finance or insurance, 5 years of senior management.  Degrees and excellent communication skills essential.

11.  Manager of Web Development - BEST Group’s client is seeking a manager to drive new Web application development. This NE Ohio based role is highly visible and well compensated. Experience designing, leading web projects at high levels essential. This is a leadership position responsible for managing a technology domain.   Within that domain, responsible to manage multiple projects with large staffs and technically complex projects with high business impact.  Manage highly skilled, technical professionals to develop business solutions to meet customer’s needs.   This includes thorough and disciplined definition of projects, rigorous development and testing and adherence to operational performance metrics.  Salary from $90-110k plus bonus of 15-20%.

12.   Oracle Developer - A premier Cleveland employer needs an Oracle star to participate in all aspects of Oracle 11.i applications development and support. Examples include interfaces, reports, forms, Custom Library objects, Fast Formulae and Workflows. Our client wants 5 years plus of Oracle 11i HRMS implementation and support experience. Solid understanding of Oracle 11.1 core HRMS modules is required. In depth knowledge of PL/SQL. Knowledge of other HR applications a plus (Payroll, Financials and Purchasing). Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Business essential. Salary $70,000 to $88,000.

13.  Systems Integrators/Data Architects - (1 position) We need integrators/ production support professionals who can work at the top of the stack, bridge applications and have web skills galore. This is a production environment of high availability, load balanced systems with a wide variety of web products. Web server, directory server, application server, portal server, content management and search engine.  Candidates must have 6 + years experience using / managing webservers with Sun Solaris and Linux. Sun Apache, IIS, LDAP, JAVA, BEA WebLogic, CGI, PHP, PERL and XML. Some experience with DNJ, Extranets, and Security. Candidates must have technical leadership skills. Salary of $70,000 to $100,000 depending on experience.

14.  Senior or Lead Web Engineer - Design, plan, implement and maintain a complex, high performing, multi tiered web application environment.  Work closely with application teams: assessing application design and recommending scalable solutions; designing and promoting standard web farm application models; designing and supporting tools to automate application deployment; and working with network, server, and development teams to optimize application performance in a high availability, load balanced environment.  Work with a wide variety of web products, including web server, directory server, application server, portal server, web access management, content management, and search engine.  In-depth experience using/managing web servers on a Solaris/Linux platform in a large-scale J2EE computing environment is required, as well as experience serving in a technical leadership position with strong interpersonal experience and skills.

Requires 8-12 years experience with knowledge of multiple operating system environments including Solaris and Linux; web servers including Sun, Apache, IIS; LDAP, Java, BEA Weblogic, CGI, PHP, Perl, XML; knowledge and deployment experience with SSL certificates. Knowledge of DNS, Extranets, Security, and high availability environments. Education Required: Bachelors Degree plus 8 years experience or 12+ years of equivalent experience. BS Computer Science

15.  Network Architect - Our highly visible client wants a Network Engineer with solid CISCO and telephony skills (AVAYA / Nortel / CISCO), to become it’s primary Network Architect. Phone experience (VOIP++)  is essential, certifications like CCNA are nice but options. This individual will work with a variety of CISCO projects and reports directly to the CTO of the organization, dotted-line to Project Managers. Great growth opportunity for the right talent. Salary $82,000 to $100,000.

16.  Infrastructure Manager FILLED- Cleveland opportunity to revamp a moribund group. In addition to quality technical skills you must have the ability to assess talent, create a functional management assessment set, and be proactive to restructuring and resolving recurring issues. Be a talent magnet, a developer of staff talent and the moxie to get them off the bus if necessary. Establish bona fide credibility with management. Confidential and urgent to be hired in January. To 115k.

17.  Open Storage Administrator - Our world renowned Ohio client is adding an Open Storage Administrator with three years or more of experience in a SAN environment and Experience in the configuration of fiber-based tape and disk environments consisting of StorageTek and IBM Tape Subsystems, Cisco switch / director infrastructure and multi-vendor disk subsystems. Just an outstanding opportunity with a world class company. Relocation in full. Salary $70,000 to $100,000.

18.  Senior Programmer Analyst - J2EE – Our Summit County client is hiring developers with J2EE and Websphere skills for its web portal development team.  Excellent employer, benefits and growth opportunites.  Five years plus experience required.

19. Senior Web Developer – Our downtown Cleveland client is seeking a Senior Web Developer with a strong background in Internet Technologies and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP).  This position is responsible for developing reusable architectures and methodologies that can be integrated into various enterprise applications.  Requires a four-year degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems or 8+ years of IT experience as well as a minimum of 4 years of experience developing web applications.    Also must have experience in the design, implementation and tuning of applications utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CFML, XML, XSLT, Java, JSP, JDBC, web services, SOAP, web servers (IIS 5.0/6.0), application servers (ColdFusion 5 or MX), developing ColdFusion applications using methodologies (Mach-II, FuseBox, cfObjects) and SQL Server 2000.   Experience with ERP systems and developing web applications in Macromedia Flex, Flash, AJAX, and/or ActionScript a plus.  Great working environment and free parking with a growing company.