Founder, Smart Bear Inc
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- CEO, founder at Smart Bear Inc
- Past
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- Project Consultant at Geist Manufacturing
- CTO at ITWatchDogs
- Consultant at DataCert
- Education
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- The University of Texas at Austin
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Jason Cohen’s Summary
After co-founding several startups, both bootstrapped and VC-funded, you're not afraid of anything. Or maybe you're afraid of everything...
Jason Cohen’s Specialties:
Building a product / team from scratch. Defining customer pain, designing products accordingly, and communicating the message back to the customer. Not necessarily in that order.
Jason Cohen’s Experience
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CEO, founder
Smart Bear Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)
Founder, developer, salesman, manager, advertiser, visionary, and changer of the pellets in the urinals.
Smart Bear makes Code Collaborator (http://codecollab.com) -- the only professional-grade peer code review tool on the market -- and other software development tools. We also wrote the only book on lightweight peer code review technique (http://codereviewbook.com).
We just finished up the largest case study of peer code review ever done at Cisco Systems. See the book for details.
Customers include: Adobe, AOL, Autodesk, Cisco, Cognos, EA Sports, Intuit, Ixia, Pfizer, RIM (Blackberry), Northrup Grumman, Seagate, Siemens, SONIC, and Qualcomm.
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Project Consultant
Geist Manufacturing
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 1 month)
After ITWatchdogs (below) was sold to Geist, I stayed on as a part-part-time project consultant for the product line I helped create.
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CTO
ITWatchDogs
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Designed and developed firmware for ARM7 devices for multiple product lines. Grew to 3-man team.
ITWatchdogs was sold to Geist Manufacturing in July 2005 but still operates under its own name.
Devices measure server room environments (temp, humidity, air flow, light, sound, power, water, door position) with both internal and external sensors, showing current and historical data through HTTP, SNMP and alarming through SMTP and SNMP.
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Consultant
DataCert
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2003 — October 2003 (5 months)
Lead 2-man team to implement a web-based reporting system for DataCert's AIMS software in record time. Managed remote development.
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CTO, co-founder
Sheer Genius Software
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1999 — June 2003 (4 years 3 months)
Grew consulting shop to six employees with seven-figure contracts with public companies. Lead team to design and implement tools now installed on tens of thousands of desktops. Managed remote development.
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Consultant
GlobeSet
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1998 — April 1999 (6 months)
Refactored development techniques for the eWallet division
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Developer
Photodex
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 1995 — November 1998 (3 years 4 months)
Ported 750,000 lines of Windows GUI code to Macintosh, Linux, *BSD, and Solaris by creating a Windows API emulation layer so future changes to the Windows base were reflected automatically in the other versions. Implemented several new features in the core product line. Optimized graphics routines in C and x86 assembly.
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Developer (intern)
Tracor Areospace
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TTRR; Computer Software industry)
May 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 4 months)
Part of a 3-man team developing business simulation software using cross-platform GUI toolkit Neuron Data.
Jason Cohen’s Education
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The University of Texas at Austin
B.A. , Computer Science , 1996 — 2000
Additional Information
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Jason Cohen’s Honors:
2008 Jolt Award for Best Collaboration Tool, Code Collaborator
Patent pending for a static code analysis method
