
Supervise and assign work to programmers, designers, technologists, technicians, or other engineering or scientific personnel.Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.Specify power supply requirements and configuration.Recommend purchase of equipment to control dust, temperature, or humidity in area of system installation.Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.Obtain and evaluate information on factors such as reporting formats required, costs, or security needs to determine hardware configuration.
Monitor functioning of equipment to ensure system operates in conformance with specifications.
Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt it to new hardware, or upgrade interfaces and improve performance. Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation. Determine system performance standards. Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design. Coordinate installation of software system. Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance. Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Confer with data processing or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data processing projects. Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.