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The MCPS Web Services Team seeks to hire three talented temporary web staff:
The summer intern staff will work on upgrades to the MCPS Web and improvements to the web publishing process this summer. Caveat: these paid positions
are dependent on the availability of budget and/or grant funds.
Our focus in the summer of 2007 will be on continuing to roll out our web publishing system, called Tron. Interns will help us migrate content from school and office
web sites into the system. School web sites will also need new, CSS-based web designs.
Summer positions with Web Services offer the best web students in MCPS a fantastic opportunity to grow their professional web
skills, build their portfolios, and make a very visible impact on the MCPS Web. The experience is a valuable capstone to academic
work. We’re a fast-paced web shop, so only intermediate to expert folks need apply. They’ll learn from us, and we often
learn from them. We also tend to treat them to ice cream on particularly hot days.
While most of our crew have been MCPS students, we’ve also hired an adult making a career change via a Montgomery College
technology education program who went on to work for a Bethesda web development firm. Quite a few of these students developed
their own freelance web businesses. View the Alumni
List of past summer interns.
The positions are full time, typically run 8 to 10 weeks from June to August, and are located at the MCPS central office, the
Carver Educational Services Center (CESC), 850 Hungerford Drive, in Rockville. See
Directions
Our hiring process involves the entire team. Resumes are reviewed by the staff, who recommend which applicants should be
invited to stop by our Rockville office for a brief interview.
How To Apply:
Applicants should e-mail a letter of interest and resumes, which must include urls of their work, to:
Ms. Chris Noonan Sturm, Director of Web Services
Chris_Sturm@mcpsmd.org
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The producers essentially do a great deal of editorial and HTML/web page production, developing new sites or upgrading existing
sites for internal clients in schools and offices. All non-school sites are created using CSS within the
MCPS Web Template. These projects require excellent editorial and communication skills and will hone students’ client contact and project
management skills.
Examples of projects tackled by recent summer staff include:
Web Producer candidates should have:
 1-2 years demonstrated web site construction experience (Sample URLs required.)
Strong HTML, CSS and SSI skills (beyond WYSIWYG)
Sharp editorial judgment and good language skills
Excellent attention to detail
Understanding of web standards a plus
Strong
design skills and Flash familiarity a plus
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The design intern works directly with our graphic design and content producers on small to medium design projects.
The design intern would most likely assist in the design of templates for elementary schools going into our new publishing system,
which could include meeting with clients, designing page layouts and brand identities for the schools. All projects will require a
focused attention to detail.
Web Designer candidates should have:
- Hands on experience with one or more design tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks or Flash. Be
prepared to show samples of design work and discuss your design decisions.
- Experience or willingness to learn photo editing, pre-production photo processing, and incorporating photos into successful site designs.
- Some HTML and CSS skills and understanding how designs are coded for the web.
- Familiarity with internet design issues (use of color, image optimization and format, etc)
- Some course work experience in the area of design, illustration, graphics, color, etc.
- Ability to work individually and as part of a team
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