Jared Goralnick

Current

Founder at Bootstrap Maryland
Productivity Evangelist at AwayFind
President at SET Consulting, LLC

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Past

Web and PL/SQL Developer at Federal Trade Commission
Build Engineer at ShareOne, Inc.
Build Engineer at Artisoft Inc.

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Education

University of Maryland College Park
Framingham State College

Recommended

15 people have recommended Jared

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

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Jared Goralnick’s Summary

Entrepreneur, speaker, and community evangelist with a penchant for finding the most practical applications of everyday technology--particularly with regard to attention management and email productivity. I have significant experience working with enterprise and government and, with AwayFind, am exploring the consumer/prosumer space.

While SET Consulting continues to serve clients like NTT/DoCoMo, NIST, HP, and the like, my focus is on improving and spreading the word about AwayFind, our web application that helps people to escape from email.

While unnecessary to list above, here are a few other positions I presently hold:

EVP, Information Overload Research Group
Social Media Advisory Board, Network Solutions
Founder, Ignite DC

Jared Goralnick’s Specialties:

email productivity, personal productivity, attention management, attention economy, social media, awayfind

Jared Goralnick’s Experience

Founder

Bootstrap Maryland

(Civic & Social Organization industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Bootstrap Maryland holds events/conferences that bring together young entrepreneurs and the necessary tools for running a lean and successful technology business. Feeling that a lot of the most current business advice for running startups hadn't made it to DC, I started this group to push that along. I generally choose the topics, select the speakers, and moderate the panels, which attract from 100-250 people.

More at http://bootstrapmd.com
Productivity Evangelist

AwayFind

(Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

AwayFind.com is a way to escape from email--so that when you're not checking it you can be confident that you're notified of emergencies or that someone else is aware of them.

I've helped to put AwayFind on the map through social media and building relationships with awesome people who are now using and championing it.

I also conceived of the product, managed its development, and handled much of its user experience design.

We launched our first version in November of 2008 (to a fair bit of press), and have recently (Oct 2009) entered private beta of our much more feature-rich version, which is in direct response to user feedback over the past year.
President

SET Consulting, LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

SET Consulting helps businesses to save time and look more professional in Microsoft Office. Our goal is to save organizations 30 minutes per more per employee in Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

We've been doing this for over seven years and have well over 400 clients.

Our most popular niches:
* We partner with design firms to design PowerPoint presentations, Excel projections, and Word reports for their clients. We've done these reports for many household-name clients. You may have seen our work on the Four Hour Workweek Dreamline spreadsheet, as well.
* We work with the US government on large documentation projects (designing templates, automating processes, and/or providing training). Some examples include NIST's voting machine standards and the reports delivered to Congress
* We work with law firms and associations as they're about to upgrade to Office 2007, providing both consulting and training related to the migration.

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Jared Goralnick’s Interests:

Design (web, print, and user interface), literature, nonfiction, RSS/blogs, swing dancing, border collies

Jared Goralnick’s Groups:

Greater Baltimore Technology Council, Greater Washington Board of Trade, Association of Legal Informations System Managers, Washington Trainers Forum, Consultants Camp, SmartCEO i3, NetSquared