VP of Engineering, [stealth-mode startup]
San Francisco Bay Area
- Past
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- Director of Software Engineering at 4INFO
- VP of Engineering at vLinks
- Director, Client Analytics at Oracle Corporation
- Co-Founder / Senior Software Engineer at Global Webtop Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at Liquid Audio, Inc.
- Software Engineer at CareerBuilder, Inc.
- Mechanical Engineer at US Naval Research Laboratory
- Mechanical Engineering Intern at US Naval Research Laboratory
- Education
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Jason Thrasher’s Summary
Information technology generalist with an emphasis on team management, system architecture, and system integration. Specialist in open source implementations and customizations for broader business needs.
Jason Thrasher’s Specialties:
IT application architecture, Java, MySQL, Oracle, and Open Source systems integration, engineering team management, technical marketing, continuous integration, coaching
Jason Thrasher’s Experience
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Director of Software Engineering
4INFO
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
2007 — March 2009 (2 years)
Manages the day to day activities of 8 brilliant software engineers. Works with Systems and QA Engineering to release the next generation SMS advertising and publishing software on schedule. Works with Product Managers, and Project Managers to plan, scope, and execute our vision.
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VP of Engineering
vLinks
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2004 — September 2007 (2 years 10 months)
Architected video streaming, data acquisition, and reporting systems. Created content management database for content-insertion technology. Architected a scalable distributed multi-processing search infrastructure.
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Director, Client Analytics
Oracle Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — January 2005 (3 years 1 month)
Managed development of business intelligence tools for Oracle's executive-level management using advanced marketing analytics techniques. Championed migration of http://forums.oracle.com from an internal custom code-base to a licensed and supported implementation of Jive Forums. Managed eMarketing’s portal development team in developing technically-compelling content for http://my.oracle.com.
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Co-Founder / Senior Software Engineer
Global Webtop Corporation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — January 2002 (9 months)
Lead development and infrastructure components of a natural-language based enterprise knowledge management system. Prepared and presented the knowledge management solution to venture capital investors and customers.
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Senior Software Engineer
Liquid Audio, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LIQD; Online Media industry)
May 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Functioned as "Java Czar" for the Engineering Department, including forming company policy for Java development practices and promoting code reuse.
Technical Lead of Content Creation System (CSS), an audio media creation system using digital rights management (DRM) technologies used to turn audio CDs into sellable DRM controlled content. Used Java and Oracle technologies including XSL, HTML, EJB, Servlets, JavaScript and BC4J. -
Software Engineer
CareerBuilder, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CBDR; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
October 1998 — April 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Developed and maintained web-based customization tools for Internet career-portal sites using ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL Server, Java, C++, and a proprietary server-side taging language.
Developed and maintained the Customization Management System (CMS) - software allowing customization management of job search and employer posting applications across 80 production NT servers. -
Mechanical Engineer
US Naval Research Laboratory
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
August 1998 — October 1998 (3 months)
Developed the Java-applet based ground station environment prototype for the Joint Astrophysical Plasma Experiment (JPEX, see http://xweb.nrl.navy.mil/jpex/index.html), a colaboration between the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, University of Leicester, and Mullard Space Science.
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Mechanical Engineering Intern
US Naval Research Laboratory
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
May 1992 — August 1998 (6 years 4 months)
Developed Java-based ground station software for the Navy’s JPEX Sounding Rocket. Responsible for object oriented design of real-time flight data display in a web browser based Java environment. Tasks included client–server network protocol design and development, GUI development, custom widget design and development, and custom network I/O Java class development.
CAD design and analysis of primary experimental cryostat equipment for superconducting X-ray detectors. Tasks include working closely with NRL physicists to design low temperature cryostat equipment, machining small custom parts for maintenance and expansion of cryostat facilities, and documenting the designs using AutoCAD.
Jason Thrasher’s Education
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
B.S. , Mechanical Engineering
Rowing Rigger Design Project Lead, Solar Car Team Member
- Activities and Societies:
- Head Women's Crew Coach, Varsity Rower (Lightweight and Heavyweight), Cycling Team Member
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