Senior Consultant at Service-now.com
Provo, Utah Area
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- Senior Consultant at Service-now.com
- President / Owner at My Kids Browser
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- Utah State University
- Brigham Young University
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Jacob Andersen’s Summary
Jacob Andersen’s Specialties:
-- Programming Languages: PHP, C#, SQL, JavaScript, PERL, C++, Java, Python, TSL.
-- IDE Experience: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008, Eclipse, PSPad.
-- Virtualization: VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC.
-- Platform Experience: Linux (SuSE, RedHat, Ubuntu), Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista, Novell NetWare.
-- Automation Software: WinRunner, Selenium, PERL.
-- Web Server Experience: Apache, IIS.
Jacob Andersen’s Experience
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Senior Consultant
Service-now.com
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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President / Owner
My Kids Browser
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
President and Principal Engineer: Designed, programmed, and marketed an Internet browser created for children. The product generates revenue from online sales, physical packaged media sold in stores located in 7 states, and royalties from 3rd party companies who bundle the software within their products. Handled everything from the website creation and maintenance (www.mykidsbrowser.com), sales, anti-piracy effort, automatic software updates, marketing, financial accounting, etc.
The client side software for My Kids Browser is written in C# (.NET 2.0) while the mykidsbrowser.com website is written in PHP and MySQL. -
Software Web Engineer – Project Lead
Omniture
(Public Company; OMTR; Computer Software industry)
2007 — August 2008 (1 year)
• Acted as Project lead in designing and developing a central authentication service utilized by the entire company’s product-line and utilized by Omniture’s acquisitions. This service consisted of a web layer, a SOAP layer, LDAP business logic, and an LDAP user store.
• Was an active participant in the creation of a single-sign-on solution that works with all of the Omniture products, and also works with third-party customer custom applications.
• Developed in php using Eclipse on Omniture’s flagship product, SiteCatalyst. -
Software Engineer
Novell
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NOVL; Computer Software industry)
October 2001 — October 2007 (6 years 1 month)
• Lead a team of 10 engineers dedicated to automating and testing ZENworks, Novell’s top revenue generating configuration management product.
• Wrote an automation suite in C# and python that would re-image a set of machines, install our product, and run a set of smoke tests to make sure that our weekly build was in a state that our QA engineers could run their validation tests. The entire test group and several developers use this program regularly.
• Participated in the open source community by creating a dynamic test harness that would automatically test the validity of mof files submitted by open source contributors.
• Wrote a CIM provider in C++ that will do a self-check of the state of the CIMOM running on a Linux system. This provider is now found on distributions on Linux that include OpenWBEM (such as SUSE Linux Open Enterprise System 2).
• Wrote several automation scripts in C#, python, PERL, TSL, and C++ for the purpose of simplifying the current test process.
Jacob Andersen’s Education
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Utah State University
Masters , Business Administration , 2006 — 2008
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Brigham Young University
Bachelors , Computer Science , 2001 — 2004
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