Studio B and the Salkind Literary Agency are looking for highly motivated individuals with editorial and publishing experience who are interested in working with authors to help them develop their writing careers.

We are currently hiring individuals on a freelance basis who are interested in working on the agency side of the publishing industry. As a literary agent, you would identify and manage top authors, assist with generating project ideas, review manuscript proposals, and focus on selling books and content to publishers, websites, and corporations.

The right candidates will have a passion for working with books and content and will be able to demonstrate their ability to discover and develop new talent, focus on selling high quality content, and be effective communicators.

Since this is freelance work our literary agents set their own work hours and schedules, manage their own authors and projects, and are paid on a commission basis. Literary agents have access to a great support staff to help with administrative details.

Familiarity with the publishing industry is essential.

About our Company:

Studio B and the Salkind Literary Agency work with general non-fiction trade and textbook authors. The staff have extensive experience running imprints for major trade and textbook publishers, and Mr. Salkind has personally written over 100 books including the best-selling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics.

Check us out at www.studiob.com and www.salkindagency.com.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to jobs@studiob.com.

Studio B is looking for SMEs to write articles about developing gaming applications that run on Intel's Integrated Graphics platform. These articles would be by developers for other developers, and they would focus on creating gaming or graphics intensive applications that run on the integrated graphics card backed up by a lot of CPU horsepower.

Topics related to thread management would be of interest, such as:

* How to thread a game effectively for integrated graphics
* Tools for threading
* Generic threading for gaming
* Why is threading important for gaming?
* Data dependency analysis to spread data across multiple threads
* Realistic game threading scenarios (like the smoke demo at the Intel visual computing developer site)
* Article(s) about the smoke code
* Load balancing in gaming
* Memory management among threads
* Optimizing integrated graphics using multiple CPUs
* Optimizing Open GL graphics for Intel*s integrated graphics platform
* Artificial Intelligence (as it pertains to game programming)

Completed articles will be published at Intel's visual computing developer web site. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your expertise and earn some money too. All article ideas and topic suggestions are welcome!

If you are interested, please apply now for more details, or send an email directly to Korynn Stark at korynn@studiob.com.

Studio B is looking for SME candidates who would like to participate in the onsite Alpha Review for a Windows 7 Enterprise Desktop Support Technician certification exam. 

This will be a 6 day onsite project in July.

SMEs for this exam Alpha Review should be Vista TS certified (or equivalent knowledge) and have a working knowledge of Windows 7 new features.

At a minimum they must be fluent in the following:

- New features for IT Pro in Windows 7 Client

- Windows 7 configuration options

- Upgrade scenarios and options

- Program Compatibility assistant

- Key management features

- User Account Controls

- Authentication

- Authorization

- Credential Management

- Cryptography Service

- Advanced Networking features

- Disk imaging technologies and concept

Studio B has openings for Subject Matter Experts to participate in the Item Writing for one of two Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition exams starting in June:

Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition, Configuring and Managing

Candidates for this exam should have three to four years of experience using Windows HPC Server 2008 or two to three years of experience using Windows© Compute Cluster Server 2003. Candidates for this exam are IT professionals whose main area of responsibility  is managing or deploying HPC or compute clusters. These IT professionals might have the following job roles:

- IT specialists who work in environments in which Windows HPC Server 2008 is part of an overall solution
- IT professionals who manage systems that run Windows HPC Server 2008
- IT professionals who work with third-party applications that are built to run on Windows HPC Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition, Developing

Candidates should have three or more years of experience working with Windows®-based high performance computing software such as Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 or Windows HPC Server 2008.

Candidates should also have at least two years of experience developing parallel applications by using OpenMP and developing parallel applications by using MS-MPI or MPICH2 libraries. Additionally, candidates should have experience with the following:

- at least two to three years of experience developing Windows-based or distributed applications by using Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5
- experience using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to support Web services 
- experience using Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, including the Visual Studio Parallel Debugger
- C /C++  and C#