The HDF Group Director of Engineering

Why the HDF Group?

We are a leader in the High Performance Computing and Engineering markets with a 30-year legacy. Our software is used by a diverse, global and passionate group of users who want us to succeed and grow. The HDF Group provides the rare opportunity to work with a unique and impressive group of people who really care about making an impact.

The Job:

As the leader of the Engineering team, you will play a critical role in the development of open source and commercial applications, as well as consulting engagements with clients that rely on our distinct mix of expertise and experience. You will report directly to the CEO, and you will be leading 3 key teams:               1. Software Development, 2. Software Quality Assurance, and 3. DevOps 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Maximize productivity and efficiency of the team, and be able to prove it
• Minimize roadblocks
• Deliver software and insights (i.e. research) to meet the needs of our clients as well as our product roadmap
• Deliver high-quality and unit-tested code, resolve defects quickly and thoroughly, and continuously improve testing effectiveness and efficiency
• Champion tools and processes to support continuous development and release management
• Create a culture where people don’t just point out problems, but look for and work towards a solution
• Foster an environment of collaboration and trust between your team and the rest of the organization

Top 5 Things Every Candidate Should Have:

1. Managed team of 10+ engineers (retain, hire, fire, develop, offshore, culture) and concurrent project load of 5+ projects (ability to see interdependencies, cross-training, planning, risk mitigation, juggling)
2. Worked as hands-on developer for 5+ years on complex engineering problems
3. Demonstrated mastery of modern engineering process: Agile Scrum + Kanban
4. Bring positive energy and enthusiasm to every challenge, with excellent communication skills
5. Experience across the full software lifecycle: Architecture, Programming, QA, DevOps

The HDF Story:

The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) was originally developed in 1987 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the goal of addressing the growing need to effectively manage very large and complex scientific and engineering data. Organizations in commercial industry, government and academia adopted HDF for many applications demanding high performance data management software. HDF supports all types of digital data, regardless of origin, size or complexity, from remote sensing data collected by satellites and computational results from nuclear testing models, to high-resolution MRI brain scans and financial time series data.

To ensure full consideration, please submit a resume, cover letter, salary history and references to DE@hdfgroup.org. For additional information refer to our website at www.hdfgroup.org. The HDF Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging applications from veterans, minorities, females, and individuals with disabilities.

Statistical Analysis for Proteomics – Computational Biology

Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company with 2015 global sales of $6.4 billion.  Learn more at http://www.dowagro.com/.

The Dow AgroSciences R&D Computational Biology Group seeks a student to work part-time our office at University of Illinois Research Park. This position will provide the student with an opportunity to apply their statistics and programming skills to the exciting area of bioinformatics and proteomics. Prior experience in bioinformatics or proteomics is not required. Responsibilities include developing statistics pipelines for computational proteomics and analyzing large-scale datasets from mass spectrometry-based proteomics.

The ideal candidate for this position will be pursuing a MS or PhD in Statistics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biology, Computer Science or a closely related field.  In addition: 

·       Strong programming skills in statistical software (e.g. R) and Python are required

·       Excellent written and oral communication skills are desirable

To apply, please email your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com.

D3/Javascript Programmer – Interactive Visualization of Bioinformatics Data

Dow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company with 2015 global sales of $6.4 billion. Learn more at http://www.dowagro.com/. 

The Dow AgroSciences R&D Computational Biology Group seeks a student to work part-time in our office at the University of Illinois Research Park.  The successful candidate will work on data analysis and software development projects that focus on interactive visualization of complex high-dimensional data. The position will provide the student with an opportunity to apply their programming skills to the exciting areas of bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics.  The student will gain exposure to and understanding of complex data sets and learn to summarize and visualize complex data for effective communication to scientists.

Prior experience in bioinformatics/genomics/proteomics is not required. Key responsibilities include:

·       Understand the visualization requirements for genomic and proteomic data.

·       Independently select appropriate visualization methods.

·       Develop interactive tools to visualize key scientific data types.

·       Ensure that the visualization techniques and software can scale to larger data sets.

·       Document the techniques used and the packages developed.

·       Effectively communicate the results to the supervisor.

The ideal candidate for this position will be pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science and have an interest in Computational Biology.  In addition: 

·       Strong programming skills in advanced Javascript or, more specifically, D3 is required

·       Quick learner of new programming methods and visualization packages

To apply, please email your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com. 

Please send resume to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Experience working with Unix or Linux systems

• Excellent debugging and testing skills

• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend upon the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages such as Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and delivery team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

About the Team

Yahoo is looking for engineers to join the Yahoo Hadoop team. The team has openings in Champaign IL. In this role you would be working on developing the next generation Big Data stack utilizing Hadoop for Batch, Storm for real time, and Spark for Iterative. Hadoop is the de-facto operating system for the worldwide cloud computing industry. Yahoo is the birthplace of Hadoop and has the largest Hadoop install in the world. The server count has grown from a few hundred nodes, to over 30,000 in the past few years. We have over 400,000 cores that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 25 clusters running a mix of Hadoop, Storm, and Spark.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced and motivated software engineers to help build a highly scalable and robust next generation Big Data stack to power Yahoo's data processing needs. The qualified engineer would work on one or more of the following open source projects: Hadoop Core (Common, Mapreduce, YARN, HDFS), Storm, or Spark.

If you have strong distributed systems background, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to participate in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you!. If you want to learn about Hadoop, Storm, or Spark and get a deep understanding of cloud computing, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities:

• Help Yahoo design the next generation cloud
• Understand all aspects of Yahoo's Big Data Stack (Hadoop, Storm, Spark) and learn select components in detail
• Be a leader in open source (Apache Software Foundation) projects
• Design massively distributed technology and develop leading edge cloud computing software
• Work closely with service engineering, operations, and Hadoop users to engineer cutting-edge solutions that allow Yahoo to answer today's most challenging big data questions.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Strong in Java or C++
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Experience with one or more of the following: Hadoop Core, Pig, Hive, Hcat, Oozie, Hbase, Spark, or Storm
• Experience with large distributed data and systems
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques
• Knowledge of database internals and query optimization

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo! Hadoop Product Engineering team is searching for Engineers to join Yahoo to help

build, update, maintain, and monitor our Hadoop open source systems (e.g. Hadoop

Core, Hbase, Storm, Oozie, etc.). These systems consists of tens of thousands of

computers, petabytesof data, spread across multiple datacenters.  If you are

looking to work on large scale systems and to learn what BIG Data really means

then Yahoo! is the place for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

    * Invent better ways to manage/automate the administration of new and existing

      clusters, via scripting and tools development

    * Consider, propose, and implement new methods for system deployment,

      monitoring, management and automation

    * Collaborate with cross-functional organizations (engineering, qa, site

      operations,and security) on new products/feature design and/or diagnosis

      of problems with the production systems

    * Real-time problem diagnosis/resolution on live systems

    * Monitor cluster health and performance, use critical thinking to find areas

      for improvement

    * Coordinate efforts with your peers in Bangalore

    * Document processes, grids, systems, and their associated configurations

    * Hardware and facility capacity planning, provisioning new resources

    * Implement and adhere to security policies and processes/controls

    * Participate in a group pager rotation for emergencies

REQUIREMENTS

    * Proven experience as a Unix systems engineer.

* Skilled in monitoring systems such as Nagios, Munin, Icinga, etc.

* Experience in using one or more configuration management systems (Chef/Puppet/Quattor)

    * Network skills in DNS, network stack, and subnets.

    * Experienced operating large installations of systems.

    * Strong shell scripting skills in one or more of Perl, Python, bash etc.

    * Experience designing large deployments integrating a variety of hardware

      and software technologies

    * Demonstrated team experience managing complex production server

      environments including direct administration of Unix systems

    * Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of explaining

      simple procedures in writing or verbally

    * Experience managing Apache Open Source projects Hadoop Core, Hbase, Storm, and Oozie

PREFERRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS

    * BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)

    * Minimum 6 years experience as a Unix systems engineer / systems administrator with

      at least 2 years in an Internet related business

    * Experience with LDAP and Kerberos a plus

    * 2+ years experience operating large installations of systems

    * Knowledge and work experience with Java, Cluster computing platforms like Hadoop,

      Condor, Torque, Maui / Moab, Sun Grid Engine

The Jump Labs office of Jump Trading opened in the U of I Research Park in 2015 in order to create epicenters for excellence in machine learning and high performance computing for applications to financial trading technology. We sponsor ongoing collaborative research projects with faculty and students, invest venture capital, and enhance the university curriculum by providing challenging real-world problems, novel data, powerful computing grid resources, and world-class mentorship.

We have an opening for a senior software engineer at Jump Labs in Champaign. Primary responsibilities will be software design and development on software projects at Jump Labs, including our in-house trading platform. Additional responsibilities include teaching/mentoring undergraduate and graduate student interns and interfacing with software development teams at other offices of Jump Trading.

What you'll do:

• Work with the Jump Labs team on large-scale, real-time distributed systems software. Contribute to system designs, develop complex algorithms, and implement quality, efficient software in a broad range of areas including: network communications, numerical methods, trading engines, data visualization, parallel programming and machine learning.
• Actively participate in the development of the Jump Labs’ bitcoin trading platform.
• Demonstrate and teach programming skills and software development processes to undergraduate and graduate students.
• Help identify and manage projects for high-caliber students at a range of experience levels.
• Reach out to software and R&D teams at other Jump Trading offices to identify potential Jump Labs projects.
• Help build relationships with University of Illinois faculty and researchers who are focused on emerging technologies in the areas of low latency, high performance computing and data science.
• Proactively communicate updates to management and peers.

Skills you'll need:

• Proficient knowledge of C++ and Python
• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in software development
• Desire to teach and mentor teams of college students
• Strong communication skills

Additional beneficial skills and experience you'll have:

• Understanding of large-scale, real-time, distributed computer systems
• Expertise in one or more areas related to current and future Jump Labs projects:
  • finance and trading
  • machine learning
  • computational science and numerical methods
  • data visualization
  • parallel programming (multi-core, clusters, GPU)
  • network programming
  • user interface and web development
• Experience developing software for Linux and Windows machines
• Experience working in University of Illinois or Research Park

**Please apply using the following URL http://grnh.se/82j1qm **

Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Quality Assurance Engineer to be part of Wolfram’s Quality Assurance department. A successful candidate would be part of the QA team for Mathematica to ensure that current standards are consistently met and each new release raises the bar for quality. An ideal candidate would be inquisitive, enjoy working on multiple simultaneous projects, be able to pay attention to detail, and have creative, out-of-the-box thinking. This position requires strong communication skills for interaction with cross-functional teams, while also being able to look at the same problem from different perspectives. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and prove software quality assurance procedures and tools
• Review features to determine testing approach and create comprehensive software quality assurance test plans
• Plan and estimate test development cycles, in coordination with SQA manager and developers
• Interact with developers to ensure that the testing requirements are clear and the test plan is thorough
• Test development , evaluate, and recommend manual and automated test tools, techniques, and methodologies
• Update and supplement existing test cases by comprehensively testing new features added as part of image processing, signal processing, and GPU computation test executions and reviews
• Check for the quality of image and signal processing functionality daily through regression analysis test cases
• File, verify, and close bugs found during testing or during the regression analysis phase
• Assist during release cycles by providing software build verification for release candidates
• Assist technical support by answering specific questions as and when required

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related field, specializing in image and signal processing
• Experience programming in languages C and C++
• Good communication skills, fluent verbally, and articulate

Skills Desired:

• Preferred programming languages: Wolfram Language, Java, and Python
• Experience in source control systems such as Git, Stash, and CVS
• Experience in working in Workbench/Eclipse or other IDE development tools
• Experience in using project tracking tools such as JIRA
• Experience in software development cycle and testing methodologies

Location: Champaign, IL

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Overview:

Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Software Developer in Test to be part of Wolfram’s Quality Assurance department. A successful candidate for this team will have the ability to be flexible and productive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Execute automated web tests and report on results
• Update automated web tests when change of web functionality has been verified as intentional
• Add automated web tests for new web functionality
• Monitor production web quality during releases of new web functionality
• Report new web issues, verify resolved issues, and add test cases as needed
• Maintain overall test plan for Wolfram web testing effort
• Verify implementation of web functionality matches the designed functionality

Requirements:

• Proven experience with JAVA, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Experience with performance and load testing tools
• Experience with Selenium
• Experience with Mathematica
• Experience with a project tracking tool like JIRA
• Good oral and written communication skills are a must
• Ability to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

 Location: Champaign, IL

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com.

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Are you passionate about user experience design and problem solving? Join Wolfram, the makers of Mathematica, the Wolfram Cloud, and Wolfram|Alpha! We are seeking a User Experience Designer whose mission is to transform complex problems into engaging and beautiful experiences for our users.

The ideal candidate will work in a fast-paced environment that fosters collaboration, communication, and ongoing inspiration by working with various teams across the organization, from business analysis and graphic design to development and QA. You will be skilled at sharing creative and intelligent ideas through detailed analysis, integration of the industry's best practices, and the creation of wireframes that communicate the requirements and stories effectively and thoroughly, as well as have expertise in user-centered design methodologies and the drive to learn about the various Wolfram technologies

Within our small UX team, you will be committed to helping our users create, develop, and learn using the Wolfram Language inside Mathematica, the Wolfram Cloud, and other products and services. You will be involved in projects that cover desktop, web, and/or mobile environments. We look forward to hearing from you!

Responsibilities:

• Bring forward-looking ideas to brainstorming sessions and workshops for our digital products and services
• Translate abstract concepts and complex visions into scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements that lead to elegant user interfaces and experiences
• Analyze and assess current products and services for continuous improvement
• Consult the UX manager, director, or other senior UX designers on complex issues and courses of action, but come with research and recommendations
• Craft user stories, flow diagrams, clean and annotated wireframes, and interactive prototypes for web, desktop, and/or mobile interfaces that effectively communicate the design to executive stakeholders, graphic designers, and developers
• Become familiar with the Wolfram technologies and products that will go hand-in-hand with your designs
• Investigate competitive products and solutions from other markets to bring new ideas
• Conduct usability tests and analyze the resulting data
• Proactively manage your own list of projects, tasks, notes, and expectations to meet deadlines and communicate any needs and ideas to your manager
• Proactively consult the graphic design, business analysis, and development teams for feedback and questions
• Present your deliverables to various teams and stakeholders
• Advise other teams from the user experience point of view
• Stay informed and on top of the ever-changing industry trends, advancements in the field of user experience, and initiatives within Wolfram

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, or a similar role for desktop, mobile, and/or web applications
• Undergraduate or advanced degree in the field of human-computer interaction, human factors, information architecture, psychology, design, or another related field
• Strong portfolio showcasing a variety of deliverables (e.g. annotated wireframes, flow diagrams, research) that demonstrate a thoughtful approach to solving complex design problems
• Excellent written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• Sharp eye for detail and strong understanding of user-centered design principles
• Familiarity with common design patterns for mobile, web, and desktop (both Mac and Windows) and modern design trends
• Experience in using OmniGraffle, Axure RP, or other prototyping tools
• Experience in performing competitive analysis and usability testing
• Working knowledge of programming languages, web technologies (e.g. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, APIs), and emerging technologies (e.g. Internet of Things)
• Familiarity with Mathematica or the Wolfram Language is a plus
• Understanding of common software development life-cycle processes
• Ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines under pressure, and defend your design choices to stakeholders, including those at the executive level, but be open and respectful regarding their decisions and recommendations
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

Location: Champaign, IL, or remote

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com.

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Senior Network Management and Design Engineer

Illinois Applied Research Institute

College of Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Illinois Applied Research Institute (ARI) is an applied research, development and engineering (RD&E) institute of the University of Illinois. Combining technical expertise with project management capabilities, ARI competes for and executes applied research and development projects for industry and government. More information about ARI’s current projects and areas of expertise can be found at http://appliedresearch.illinois.edu/

The Illinois Applied Research Institute (ARI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks applicants for a Senior Network Management and Design Engineer to help in the design of a network management infrastructure for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project. When fully operational, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (currently under construction in Chile,) will collect 15 Terabytes of raw image data every night. As part of the LSST Data Management team, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) will be responsible for processing this data in near-real time, producing alert notifications of new and unexpected astronomical events, and reprocessing this data annually to create a 200 petabyte archive by the end of the 10-year mission.

The main purpose of this role is to deliver systems and capability to help continually drive performance and improve operational excellence within network operations. This role will be primarily focused on deploying network management systems (NMS) to aid in faster problem resolution and event correlation and status monitoring. Further, this role is responsible for the ongoing support and customization of service monitoring managers and underlying network management systems that drive the network. The underlying hardware, cloud based services and applications form the ecosystem to enable LSST scientists and the general public to carryout seamless collaboration around the globe. This is a full-time, academic professional position that requires the ability to carry the various tasks independently and/or collaboratively. Flexible work arrangements possible for well-qualified candidates.

Roles and Responsibilities:

·      Develop, maintain, and enhance monitoring and reporting tools, techniques, procedures in support of Network Operations Center (NOC)

·      Develop creative solutions to aid in the quick identification and resolution of problems and customer affecting issues

·      Develop trending and reporting toolset that can be leveraged by other teams

·      Provide Software Development Lifecycle thought leadership in the design, configuration, deployment of network monitoring tools

·      Develop and implement a governance framework around change management, feature delivery and enhancements

·      Update NMSs configurations with product upgrades and patches

·      Develop standard operating procedures for NMS tools

·      Design test programs for NMS implementations to measure/gauge effectiveness and utility

·      Prepare/develop automated processes for discovery tasks

·      Design “role-based” network monitoring dashboards

·      Customize NMSs to meet unique operational and monitoring requirements

·      Assume additional appropriate related network and design duties to further the mission of the institute 

Minimum Qualifications:

·      Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other related technical field with more than seven years of work experience in network design, implementation and support

·      Demonstrate expert level proficiency in Network Management Systems, and Applications & Process monitoring

·      Experience with vendor element management systems, MIB design and development  

·      Network analysis and management experience using TCP/IP, SNMP, NTP, DNS, SSH, etc.

·      Experience with IP internetworking

·      Detailed design knowledge in distributed databases and database design

·      Demonstrated proficiency in programming with C++, Java, Python or equivalent object-oriented programming languages

·      Strong problem solving and analytical abilities

·      High sense of ownership, self-motivation and a desire to explore new technologies with a hands-on attitude

·      Strong verbal and written communication skills and an ability to work in a fast paced team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

·      Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or other related technical field with more than five years of relevant work experience in the areas of network design and management

·      Knowledge of telecommunications field and service provider environments/services useful.

·      Experienced with one or more of the following NMS products:

o   OpenNMS, Nagios, EM7, Netcool, Smarts, Client, Mooqsoft

·      Strong knowledge of internet based network connectivity principles and implementation

·      Experience working with highly complex networks and remotely deployed systems

·      Understanding of network security methodologies and tools

·      Familiarity with network routers, preferably Juniper and Cisco

To apply for this position, please create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu/ and upload your cover letter, resume, and names/contact information for three references as a single PDF file by July 22, 2016. Interviews may take place prior the closing date and early applications are encouraged; however, full consideration will be given to complete applications received by the closing date. For further information regarding application procedures, contact Summer Redman at sredman@illinois.edu or 217-300-5400.

Illinois is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. Illinois welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).