Ben Curren

Current

Co-Founder at Outright

Past

President at Esomnie LLC
Senior Software Engineer at Intuit, Inc.
Java Contractor at Charles Schwab

Java Team Leader at Eveo.com
Java Contractor at AlphabitMedia.com and MrSwap.com
Software Developer (Intern) at Xerox
Software Developer (Intern) at Sun Microsystems
Software Developer (Intern) at Sun Microsystems

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Education

California Polytechnic State University

Recommended

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162 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Ben Curren’s Summary

I've been hacking away on the Internet since the mid-90s. I love using the latest technology to solve real world problems in new and innovative ways.

Recently, I've co-founded GoBootstrap.com, which is creating the best web-based accounting platform for small businesses.

Ben Curren’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, usability, Java, J2EE, WindowsForms, .Net, PHP, c, C++, Flex

Ben Curren’s Experience

Co-Founder

Outright

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Leading the development of a web based accounting platform for small businesses.
President

Esomnie LLC

(Computer Software industry)

May 2001 — November 2008 (7 years 7 months)

Founder of a company that specializes in creating web applications that are simple to use and well engineered. We specialze in using cutting-edge technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and Flex, to solve real world problems for our customers.
Senior Software Engineer

Intuit, Inc.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 9 months)

Certified Scrum Master who helped lead a nine-person .Net development team create and maintain a desktop application based on WindowsForms. Designed and developed various products and services for the QuickBooks product line. The products I worked on are used by millions of users everyday. Most development involved the following technologies: C#, .Net, C++, COM, c, Java, and Ruby on Rails.

Won best presentation and paper for the annual Intuit Technology Forum two years in a row. One on aspect oriented programming (AOP) and the other on test driven development (TDD).

Youngest member of Intuit Technical Leadership team. Participated in shifting the culture of Intuit to a more Agile and competitive software development department. Started various book clubs including one on Design Patterns.
Java Contractor

Charles Schwab

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SCHW; Investment Management industry)

October 2000 — February 2001 (5 months)

Used J2EE technologies to dramatically improve the communication channel between the front and back office. The software we developed allows reps to complete over 20 times the amount of tasks than previously.
Java Team Leader

Eveo.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 2000 — October 2000 (8 months)

Image YouTube.com developed 6 years before its time. That is what Eveo.com was. I lead a team of Java Developers to deliver web based products and services. Most of our development was completed with J2EE, Flash and pretty advanced JavaScript for its time.
Java Contractor

AlphabitMedia.com and MrSwap.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 1999 — March 2000 (7 months)

Worked with a team of engineers to develop a web based barter application. We used a suit of Java technologies that are know known as J2EE.
Software Developer (Intern)

Xerox

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; XRX; Consumer Electronics industry)

June 1999 — September 1999 (4 months)

Designed and implemented the wildcarding capabilities for PrintXchange, a high-end client/ server application for network printers, while still conforming to the POSIX API specifications. All development was completed in c and Java AWT.
Software Developer (Intern)

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

June 1998 — November 1998 (6 months)

Worked with a team of 2 engineers developing a sales forecasting tool for Sun salespeople. It was developed using Java Servlets, RMI, with a Sybase database.
Software Developer (Intern)

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)

Developed a reporting web site that made sense of terabytes of Sun service data. The web site was used by directors throughout Sun to determine the call volume and escalation patterns for the service department. The site was developed using shell scripts, AWK, SED, SQL, and various other UNIX utilities.