Jesse Stay

Current

• Chief Community Officer at i.TV
• Advisor at TodaysMama.com
• Author at "FBML Essentials" (O'Reilly), "I'm On Facebook -- Now What???" (HappyAbout.info)

• CEO and Chief Architect at SocialToo.com
• Founder, Chief Architect at Holy Rolls
• President, Founder at LDSOSS
• CEO, Founder, Consultant at Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC
• Author, Publisher at Stay N' Alive

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Past

• Senior Applications Developer at UnitedHealth Group
• Senior Software Engineer at BackCountry.com
• Lead Applications Developer at Media General, Inc.

• Manager of MIS at Children's Wear Digest
• Senior Systems Analyst at Lightspan, Inc. (Edutest.com)
• Web Master at OneGreatFamily.com
• Assistant Manager, Web Development at IDI Global, Inc.

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Education

• Strayer University

Recommended

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Connections

248 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• SocialOptimize

Jesse Stay’s Summary

I am a Social Media technologies expert. I specialize in Facebook, Bebo, Open Social, and other technologies that enable you as a business to better reach your customers in a viral manner, leading to more targeted ad and marketing positions, leading to faster adaptation of your brand through the social networks.

I have firm experience developing and providing quality applications that have already had strong successes. I have both developed and consulted for successful social networking applications, some of those which currently have over a million users (the top 90 on Facebook!).

My other experience includes:

-Firm experience AND education in proper programming techniques, especially in Perl (my specialty), Mod_Perl, C, Apache, MySQL , PostgreSQL, or Oracle
-Skills: DBI, libapreq, XML, (w3c) STANDARDS-compliant XHTML and CSS, Graphic Design techniques, Linux, and many Linux services, programs, and daemons, Fatwire CMS, Interchange E-Commerce Platform, Facebook API, Google OpenSocial (including Orkut and Hi5 at the moment), Pligg Module development
-Experience managing and developing websites with tens of thousands of visitors per day
-Firm knowledge of Windows and Linux Server Administration and programming
-Experience developing on the Facebook Apps API Platform, Bebo Platform API, and Google OpenSocial API

Jesse Stay’s Specialties:

Perl, C++, Java, Cold Fusion, Mod_Perl, Apache, MySQL or Oracle, DBI, libapreq, XML, (w3c) STANDARDS-compliant XHTML and CSS, Graphic Design techniques, Linux, and many Linux apps and services, Perl, Mod_Perl, Apache, MySQL, Oracle, Windows NT and Microsoft platforms, MSSQL Server, Windows PDC Servers, MS Exchange Server, Fatwire CMS, Morris Classified, Ins Systems, Interchange E-Commerce Platform, Facebook Platform API, Google API, Pligg Module development, OpenSocial

Jesse Stay’s Experience

• Chief Community Officer

  i.TV

  (Entertainment industry)

  September 2008 — Present (2 months)

  Responsible for the complete strategic planning and product responsibility for i.TV's Social Media and Community offerings.
  
  i.TV is working to revolutionize the way you interact with your television, as well as the movies you watch. We are building interaction tools, starting with the iPhone, to enhance and grow the experience you have watching Television and Movies. Contact me for a demo of our product offerings!

• Advisor

  TodaysMama.com

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — Present (7 months)

• Author

  "FBML Essentials" (O'Reilly), "I'm On Facebook -- Now What???" (HappyAbout.info)

  (Publishing industry)

  December 2007 — Present (11 months)

  "FBML Essentials", published by O'Reilly and Associates is a book that focuses as a reference towards a critical component of Facebook development called FBML.
  
  "I'm On Facebook--Now What???" is a book explaining to businesses, students, parents, and individuals how Facebook can be beneficial to them, and how they can use it to make their business, educational, and professional lives more efficient.

• CEO and Chief Architect

  SocialToo.com

  (Internet industry)

  October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Managed, wrote, and administered a tools site for the Social Web. SocialToo.com offers tools that compliment the existing functionality of multiple social networks and offers integration between those networks. It is a work in progress, but currently has over 500 users and among those users some of the top influentials on the internet.

• Founder, Chief Architect

  Holy Rolls

  (Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Meta-network of social religious applications, currently written for Facebook and other networks (soon to include OpenSocial). Applications include:
  
  -LDS App - 16,000 users - sold to More Good Foundation with rights retained to code - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4292630759
  -"We're Catholic" - 50,000 users (and growing) - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=17438029096
  -"We're Baptist" 500 users (and growing) - increasing daily in size - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=19859282064
  -"We're Protestant" - Newest addition, increasing daily in size - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=13396073335
  -Many more religions to come!

• President, Founder

  LDSOSS

  (Think Tanks industry)

  June 2003 — Present (5 years 5 months)

  -Founded an organization devoted to developing and encouraging the use and development of Open-Source software that is in accordance with values held by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  -Organized and developed a leadership committee to oversee the works of the group
  -Started Came2Pass.com, an experiment in utilizing Open Source technologies to promote and spread the LDS faith. Contributed 2 modules to the Pligg source tree, one of which is being bundled in production currently.

• CEO, Founder, Consultant

  Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2002 — Present (6 years 5 months)

  Social Media, Open Social, Bebo, and Facebook Development and Consulting
  
  Applications written and owned by Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC:
  
  -Holy Rolls
  -Google GrandCentral Facebook App - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2413262772
  -SteepAndCheap Facebook App - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2414128633
  
  OpenSocial Applications:
  -"Know Your Neighbor": http://sandbox.orkut.com/AppInfo.aspx?appId=507762812640
  
  Consulting and Development also contributed to:
  
  -"We're Related" Facebook App (currently in the top 100 Facebook apps with over 1 million users): http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=ade7557485cc4300c31eaff3acb60444
  -"Linking Universe" Facebook App: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=18819324272
  -"Global Grind Hip Hop Trivia" Facebook App: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=8409320969
  -#1 result in Google for the term "Facebook Consultant"
  -Others currently under wraps

• Author, Publisher

  Stay N' Alive

  (Internet industry)

  January 2002 — Present (6 years 10 months)

  Featured on TechCrunch, WashingtonPost.com, TechMeme, WebWare, AllFacebook, InsideFacebook, FaceReviews, and Scobleizer.com, Stay N' Alive focuses on Social Media and technology news, howtos, and interesting information. Have an interesting social media or Web 2.0 technology story? Please share it with me - I'd love to hear!
  
  I also regularly guest-blog on LouisGray.com - do a search for "Jesse Stay" there to see a list of my work!

• Senior Applications Developer

  UnitedHealth Group

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UNH; Insurance industry)

  August 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Working for subsidiary Ingenix, quickly integrated and adapted to learn the specialized industry of Healthcare EDI; Contributed UI modifications that both simplified and reduced developer work time in configuring systems; Rewrote a C-based application for searching and matching health claim information from EDI X12 health documents in Perl; Debugged and fixed issues with other still existing C applications; Lead a team of off-shore developers in smooth completion of several EDI-related projects - used a very agile approach in leadership;

• Senior Software Engineer

  BackCountry.com

  (Retail industry)

  October 2005 — August 2006 (11 months)

  -Led a major redesign of SteepAndCheap.com within a week after starting at the company
  -Took charge of the company’s Keyword Management program, in developing software for the automation of keyword creation based on the company’s product database (in PostgreSQL), and the submission of those Keywords via the Google and Yahoo APIs; wrote a Framework to consolidate coding for this - won awards for work in this, making the company near a half million in additional revenue

• Lead Applications Developer

  Media General, Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MEG; Newspapers industry)

  February 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 9 months)

  -Organized and developed new media applications for convergence into broadcast and publishing properties using Fatwire Content Management Systems
  -Led development and organized tasks of other employees in regards to new projects regarding the Morris online classifieds system
  -Proposed and helped to consult new ideas with senior management

• Manager of MIS

  Children's Wear Digest

  (Apparel & Fashion industry)

  October 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  -Provided ideas using IT to boost sales for the 3,000,000 hits/day website, cwdkids.com. Managed Affiliate program, Search Engine Marketing program for the website, and EDI communications strategies for maintaining inventory
  -Increased employee efficiency by developing MSSQL applications written in Perl that automated many employee tasks
  -Designed many graphics used on the web saving the company about $30,000 annually

• Senior Systems Analyst

  Lightspan, Inc. (Edutest.com)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2001 — June 2002 (9 months)

  -Designed and developed mod_perl applications for testing scholastic students; Developed a database of searchable and uploadable Images; Developed a state-wide test-assessment program, an Adaptive Testing Engine, and other programs written in Perl
  -Managed a series of Linux Servers and Apache Web Servers using MySQL; Maintained a firewall with iptables, managed dhcp, and other sys-admin tasks

• Web Master

  OneGreatFamily.com

  (Internet industry)

  August 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 3 months)

  -Sole Graphic Designer, Programmer, Sys Admin, DBA for website; Created co-brands for Microsoft Encarta, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Catholic.org increasing revenue for the company; Administered servers (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, mod_perl) to handle 1,000,000+ hits per day
  -Programmed reporting systems including Perl log parsers to generate traffic statistics, system backups and log-rotation, and a site-outage notification program
  -Wrote embedded C++ in Perl and Windows Active X programs to integrate with the company's programs

• Assistant Manager, Web Development

  IDI Global, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — August 2000 (10 months)

  Supervised 2-3 other engineers in completing a family-oriented CMS; Wrote many javascript frontend apps; Helped establish and develop new methodologies of programming for the company; Oriented the company towards a more mod_perl-oriented infrastructure vs. a CGI-base.

Jesse Stay’s Education

• Strayer University

  B.S., Computer Information Systems; Minor, E-Business, Software Engineering, Software Design and Architecture, Marketing, Sales, Law for E-Commerce, 2003 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Alpha Chi National Honor Society
  Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Additional Information

Jesse Stay’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• SocialOptimize

Jesse Stay’s Interests:

new business ideas, technology, programming, xbox, networking and automating my home and my life

Jesse Stay’s Groups:

LDSOSS
PLUG
SLLUG

•    Provo Linux Users Group
•    Perl Mongers
•    v100
•    Utah Apple Users Group

Jesse Stay’s Honors:

-Won Media General's iPrize for Innovation
-Won Optimization awards at BackCountry.com for work done in Keyword Management

Jesse Stay’s Contact Settings

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