CTO and Co-Founder at Bootstrap Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Co-Founder at Bootstrap Technologies
- President at Esomnie LLC
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- 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
- Education
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- California Polytechnic State University
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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. I have recently founded a company, Esomnie that does exactly that. We take peoples ideas and turn them in to a reality. I have recently been working with Ruby on Rails and starting to get very interested in Adobe’s Flex 2.0 technology.
Ben Curren’s Specialties:
Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, usability, Java, J2EE, WindowsForms, .Net, PHP, c, C++, Flex
Ben Curren’s Experience
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Co-Founder
Bootstrap Technologies
(Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (7 months)
Leading the development of our 2 products: GoBootstrap.com and Paybackable.com.
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President
Esomnie LLC
(Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — Present (7 years 6 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ben Curren’s Education
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California Polytechnic State University
B.S., Computer Science, September 1996 — March 2002
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Ben Curren’s Interests:
technology, software development, cooking, model airplanes, snowboarding, usability, human computer interaction, building anything, flying
Ben Curren’s Groups:
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Ben Curren’s Honors:
Won best technology paper and presentation 2 years in a row at Intuit's annual Technology Forum.
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