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Prolacta Bioscience is an equal opportunity employer that offers employees the chance to improve the quality of life for premature and critically ill patients around the world. As the industry leader in human milk science, we are afforded outstanding opportunities to grow personally and professionally along with the company.

At Prolacta, we value employees whose passion shows in their work – those who enjoy a challenge and are successful at developing creative solutions. Prolacta finds success through team collaboration. We offer a very competitive compensation and benefits package, and a fun and challenging workplace.


Systems Developer - MS Access (75%) / LAMP (25%)

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Then, we want you!

Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. headquartered in Monrovia, California, is a life sciences company that provides specialty formulations of human milk for the nutritional needs of premature and critically ill infants. During the first few weeks of life, these fragile babies have nutritional requirements that exceed the protein, minerals, and total calories that naturally occur in mother's milk. This nutrition is critical for the long term health and growth of the babies. As a result, it is the practice of many neonatology departments to fortify (add nutrients to) mother's milk. Prolacta’s Human Milk Fortifier is the only fortifier made exclusively from human milk.

MS Access

Job Description/Skills Required:

The primary function of this position is to design, build and manage databases and applications to accommodate proprietary business processes. Responsibilities include identifying and developing various techniques to facilitate information storage, identifying and building information trackers, finding sources of expertise, acquiring necessary knowledge, and implementing/maintaining various tools to achieve project goals.
  • Building and maintaining databases and interfaces as required by the business to automate and simplify processes. Perform scheduled clean-up of databases. Collaborate with outside groups on gaining access or feeds from databases as needed.
  • Create custom reports, Access forms and any other relevant tools that will support internal departments.
  • Ensure existing tools meet customer expectations by conducting roundtables, gathering feedback, and shadowing end users. Maintain list of future enhancement requests and work with business partners and managers to prioritize and create implementation plans.
  • Meet with business stakeholders to gather and document requirements, create design documentation and mockups, coordinate user acceptance testing, and create training/How To documentation (SOPs) for custom applications. Conduct and document validation of changes prior to implementation.
  • Access 2003, 2007, & 2010
  • Microsoft Operating System
  • Windows Server Platform
  • VBA
  • Forms Based Apps and validation
  • Must understand MS Access 2003 Security/Multiple User structure
  • Develop new and maintain/troubleshoot existing Access DBs
  • Know how to interact with external data sources (ODBC)
  • Develop and design database architecture and data models
ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

Minimum 2 years of experience designing and creating MS Access databases and Visual Basic applications required. Experience interfacing with MS SQL databases and ODBC required.

PREFFERRED SKILLS:
  • Experience designing and creating web based applications using ASP.NET, C#, and VB.NET preferred

LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP)

Required Skills:
  • Experience developing Web-based applications that interface with a database
  • Experience with the following Web development languages: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL
  • Database design
  • Experience with PHP frameworks like code ignitor, Zend, Cake
  • Experience with version control and bug tracking
  • Experience designing Web-based system architectures
  • Familiarity with technologies including web services, sessions, web security (e.g., SQL injection, cross site scripting), client server interaction (AJAX), authentication and authorization (LDAP), XML, XSLT, and data modeling
  • Familiarity with javascript frameworks like JQuery or Prototype
Desirable Background and Skills:
  • A degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems or a related field or significant experience in web based application development
  • Experience with Continuous Integration and automated deployments
  • LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP)
  • Unix-based Operating system (Linux)
  • Develop and design database architecture and data models
  • Know how to interact with external data sources (ODBC)
  • Develop new and maintain/troubleshoot existing LAMP DBs
Technical Skills - Required:
  • LAMP development (5+ years)
  • (X)HTML / CSS (5+ years)
  • AJAX (2+ years)
  • JavaScript, jQuery (2+ years)
  • Experience consuming APIs (2+ years)
  • Linux (5+ years)
  • Experience with versioning systems such as SVN or Git (2+ years)
  • Experience with MVC frameworks such as Zendframework, Code Igniter, Kohaha (2+ years)
OVERALL ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED:
  • Good communication skills required to be able to express complex technical concepts verbally and in writing and to effectively communication with various disciplines.
  • Must obtain and practice successful information gathering techniques. Advanced knowledge of business and technical trends.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem solving ability.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Problem-solving and teamwork skills. Must be a team player with a strong customer service focus.

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Internships

Every year we provide opportunity for internships in food science, clinical, quality systems, information systems, and marketing. For further information please contact: Cari Dittman, Sr. Manager, Customer Care.