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Interactive Developer Job Opening

About Boston Productions, Inc
Boston Productions is a multimedia production company that produces videos, interactive programs, and immersive theater experiences for museums across the United States. We are looking for an experienced interactive developer to join our staff. Recent clients include: Connecticut Science Center, Hershey Chocolate Company, Smithsonian Institution, College Basketball Hall of Fame, and the International Spy Museum.

Description of the Position
Our work combines Flash, video, content management, and occasionally giant chocolate machines. We’re looking for someone to join our team with a broad range of technical abilities. This is someone who is comfortable with PHP and SQL programming, but also can get their hands dirty with Actionscript and Flash development.

Here are some examples of some of the challenging projects we’ve done:

–a theatrical experience that let’s up to 32 people use touch screens to interact with a 3 screen immersive video projection with lighting and atmospheric effects

–a multi-user map table that allows up to four users to explore the history of the town of Hershey through photos, video and other rich media.

–an interactive presidential desk that teaches visitors about Teddy Roosevelt’s policy decisions and allows them to photograph and email an image of themselves as president.

As an interactive developer, you will program touch-screen applications, websites, and other multimedia programs.  You’ll also be key in building custom applications to allow institutions to manage their own content and allow the programs to grow over time. As a valued member of the production team you will participate in creative development, programming, prototyping software and hardware, and ensuring proper QC of deliverables.

Qualifications
The interactive developer should have a broad knowledge of interactive technologies and in-depth software knowledge in Flash, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop and in technologies like XML, ActionScript, PHP, SQL, CSS, and HTML.

Helpful skills include familiarity with video encoding for the web and stand-alone applications, the ability to diagnose and solve computer problems, and the poise to deal with problems you may have never heard of before. We realize there are a lot of Flash animators and designers out there, as well as pure PHP coders, but this position is for a person who can work with both, and integrate them to create seamless experiences.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate are extremely important as a project team may include a producer, video editor, graphic designer, scriptwriter, and the interactive developer.

We don’t need you to know it all, but an adventurous spirit is important.  We take on a lot of challenging projects that are different than anything we’ve done before, so if you like sticking to just web development, or don’t feel comfortable with integrating graphics and Actionscript, then this probably isn’t the job for you.

Please email your resume, cover letter explaining why you’d be a great addition to our team, and your favorite candy bar to Bruce Spero at bspero @t bostonproductions d0t com. No phone calls about this job please. We’re NOT looking to contract out work to other companies or development firms. We’re looking for an individual to work out of our Norwood, MA office, so please make sure this is a possibility before applying.

Guests at Create Your Own Chocolate Bar Watch The Chocolate Enrober

I am proud to announce the opening of Create Your Own Candy Bar at Hershey’s Chocolate World.  This exciting experience allows visitors to design their very own Hershey’s chocolate bar complete with custom chocolate types, a variety of included ingredients, and a unique wrapper.

The best part is that after using the kiosks to design your wrapper and bar, you get to watch a real assembly line complete with robotic arms, hydraulic pumps,  and lasers build and package your custom bar!

This is definitely a one of a kind attraction that I would recommend to anyone in Hershey, PA.

Charles's personal wrapper