Experiences at WiderThan Americas, A Real Networks Company

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The Music-on-Demand Business Unit. The MOD BU was staffed by outstanding, driven professionals. It's nice to be a part of a team where everyone is pushing toward a goal together, with a shared vision that everyone on the team can contribute to.

1. Casual environment
2. Now owned by Real Networks
3. Exciting projects to work on.

Verizon Wireless is extremely thorough about what they expect out of the front-end design and behavior for the Windows Media Player and Handset client interfaces to their music catalog to the customer. In contrast, like most clients they care primarily that the front-end works -- not what's happening in the background to make it all happen. The most challenging aspect was coming up with the back-end business rules, behaviors and interface tool sets to support the public facing marketing, catalog and content. It provided an excellent opportunity to come up with some innovative concepts for handling large amounts of data and anticipate how we would handle future system growth in advance of Verizon Wireless requests....

Develop product and interface designs for Verizon Wireless (VCAST) Music On Demand Service components. Create use cases, scenarios, and developer and end-user documentation for product modules and components. Anticipate, create and support business rules in relation to Verizon Wireless requests. Work with developers to establish back-end processes and behavior against business rules. Continually refine and enhance the user interface to incorporate new functionality. Track market activity and business trends to identify new opportunities. Research and develop new product line concepts for client and internal use....

Casual & Business Casual: Jeans, T-Shirts, Khakis, Sweaters, Business Casual, etc.

I found my job at WiderThan by posting my resume at Monster. They called me. I gave a well prepared, well researched interview. They gave me an offer the same day. I was very happy with the position and I still am today. WiderThan's been a great experience for me.