Number of positions available: One or more teams with one or more students

We are creating an Indoor Vertical Farming system, and are working on creating a full seed to plate infrastructure.

We have a number of different subsystems that are used by internal staff.

We require a quality UX/UI design that is consistent across all the subsystems.

Each subsystem has a unique database.

The database will have connections to data in other subsystems.

The requirements include:

a) Support multiple languages

b) Have a configuration settings

c) Have data entry - some are significant, some are relatively small

d) Status reporting of what is in the database

e) Editing of data in the database

f) Different types of reporting on the data

Network - Manages the entire Farm Network

Assembly - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the manufacturing

Agronomist - Maintains our grow formulas and marketing materials

Grower - A full analysis system to review all the farms

AI - (Not currently available) Uses the data in Grower to create new grow formulas

Gardner - Manages the hardware for the Vertical Acre according to the grow formula specifications

Pavilion - Manages the HVAC system according to the grow formula specifications

Germinator - Manages the hardware for the Incubator

Barn - Manages the farm

Farmer - An ERP system (extending Odoo) to manage the farm

Inspector - Monitors the equipment and production

Director - Provides an API to mobile applications and 3rd party software

The students will

a) Work with our Marketing Team to develop and test a UX

b) Work with our Data Architect to capture the relevant user data and store it in our DB

c) Write the App code to implement the App specification.

d) Be responsible for fixing any bugs.

e) Ensure the App meets all technical requirements of the Android and Apple app stores.

Here is a link to a summary of the all the applications and even more details

Skills students will develop:

• Project management
• Communication in a virtual environment
• Familiarity with tools like Discord, Asana and GitLab
• Taking responsibility
• Presentation skills for a business environment.

We have a standardized development process:

• Dataflow diagram
• Roadmap
• JIRA project Management

Teams have a product manager who provides direction and organization

We have a Discord server for regular communications

We regular team meetings

We understand the practicum is to help you receive Work experience that can help find you a position. We fully support this.

Once you have started with us, we encourage you to immediately add to your LinkedIn profile that you worked as a Consultant to Local Grown Salads. You are encouraged to connect to all the other folks who have worked for Local Grown Salads and then start accepting invitations from others as well. This will create you a network of folks. This network is popular with recruiters.