Caleb Jenkins

Current

INETA Speaker's Bureau at International .NET Association (INETA)
Technical Editor at Wrox Press (Wiley Publishing)
Host, Cameraman, Editor at CommunityCast.tv

Senior Consultant and Training Mentor at Improving Enterprises, Inc

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Past

Application Architect (Improving Enterprises, Inc) at American Airlines
Developer Evangelist at Microsoft
Senior .NET Consultant at Geniant

Architect Mentor at Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (CGI-AMS)
.NET Development Mentor at CGI-AMS
.Net Solution Architect and Development Mentor at Sunoco, Inc
Advanced Technical Instructor at New Horizons Computer Learning Center

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Education

Mt. San Jacinto College
Mt. San Jacinto College

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Caleb Jenkins’s Summary

Caleb Jenkins is a training mentor and consultant in Dallas, TX, with Improving Enterprises, Inc. (www.ImprovingEnterprises.com). Improving specializes in delivering enterprise solutions and mentoring on the Microsoft and Java platforms.

Host, cameraman and editor for http://CommunityCast.tv; as a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .NET architect, Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .NET Solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; American Airlines, Countrywide Mortgage, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrift Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few.

Caleb lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busies himself playing Candy Land and Xbox 360 with their four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speaks at conferences, and writes code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he'll post some of the gazillion interviews that he's recorded on CommunityCast or blog at www.calebjenkins.com

Caleb Jenkins’s Specialties:

Public Speaking, .NET 3.5, C#, VB, VS2008, VS2005, VSTS, TFS, ASP.NET AJAX, Adobe, Framework Design, Solution Architecture, SQL, (x)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Community Building, Leader Development, Presenting, Training, Educating, Mentoring, Illusionist, Stage Magic, Having Fun.

Caleb Jenkins’s Experience

INETA Speaker's Bureau

International .NET Association (INETA)

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year)

INETA's North American Speaker's Bureau supports the .NET community in the US and Canada by supplying world-class, internationally recognized .NET experts to present at community events.
Technical Editor

Wrox Press (Wiley Publishing)

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

August 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Wrox Press (Wiley Publishing) is a world class publisher of technology books and resources. Developer to Developer. I am currently the technical editor on a C# 3.0 book.
Host, Cameraman, Editor

CommunityCast.tv

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

CommunityCast.tv is a publication of CommunityResults, Inc. a non-profit corporation formed for the advancement and support of technology communities. The purpose of CommunityCast.tv is to introduce the world to technology events by interviewing the organizers, presenter and attendees at various events.
Senior Consultant and Training Mentor

Improving Enterprises, Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Improving Enterprises is a training company that doesn't believe that traditional training works. I work with teams of developers to help them them with efficient knowledge transfer by leading development projects and teaching and mentoring in a hands on relevant capacity.
Application Architect (Improving Enterprises, Inc)

American Airlines

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMR; Airlines/Aviation industry)

September 2007 — January 2008 (5 months)

Worked with the Applications Architecture group to assist in the adoption and design of .NET applications as well as the upgrade of "classic" ASP applications to ASP.NET. Worked with various internal groups including "JetNet", an internal portal server more than 40k customers daily and as well as presentations with and gaining approval through the Architecture Review Meeting (ARM) process.
Developer Evangelist

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 4 months)

As the Microsoft Developer Evangelist for South Central District I covered Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. I was responsible for developer satisfaction and adoption of the Microsoft .NET platform. I worked by engaging with developer and designer organizations, user groups, community influencers, book authors, Microsoft MVPs and large enterprise customers. Those on the .NET platform and competitive technologies.
Senior .NET Consultant

Geniant

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — October 2005 (5 months)

.NET Developer and Architect
Architect Mentor

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (CGI-AMS)

(Computer Software industry)

May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)
.NET Development Mentor

CGI-AMS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CGI; Computer Software industry)

May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Solution Architect, Development Mentor, Lead Developer - Help define a solution, overcome technical hurdles and lead a team of .NET developers on a mission critical application at DTAG.
.Net Solution Architect and Development Mentor

Sunoco, Inc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUN; Oil & Energy industry)

February 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 4 months)

Developed the architecture and worked in the full life cycle of a Customer Server Application for the Credit Card group within Sunoco, Inc, converting an IBM Mainframe application to a VB.net front end application. Technologies used: IMS (Mainframe Cobol) transactions, MS Host Transaction Server over an SNA connection, MS DTC, ADO.net, SQL Server and VB.net.
Advanced Technical Instructor

New Horizons Computer Learning Center

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NEWH; Education Management industry)

June 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 9 months)

Instructed in all computer technologies including: MCSD & MCSD.NET Track, Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) track, VBA, A+ Certification, Networking Fundamentals, SQL, JavaScript, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Director (Shockwave), HTML, MS Office, FrontPage, Publisher, Web Authoring Fundamentals, E-Commerce Fundamentals and more