Co-founder/CTO at Shmoop
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Co-founder/CTO at Shmoop
- el señor del box de wip (CEO/Founder) at WipBox Inc
- Past
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- Early guy who helped with some architecture and tech staffing at Fuzz Artists, Inc.
- VP - Product & Technology Operations at Spark Networks, plc
- Founder/CEO at Dipsie
- Founder/CEO at SON Heavy Industries
- Super Intern at Slack Barshinger & Partners
- Education
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- Marquette University
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Jason Wiener’s Summary
Serial entrepreneur that has and continues to create some unbelievably cool shit, yet keeps making mistakes by giving people far too much benefit of the doubt.
Jason Wiener’s Specialties:
NLP, Quantum Linguistics, distributed computing, mass storage, Web Search, Web content publishing and development, Neural networks, distributed networking, autonomous learning
Jason Wiener’s Experience
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Co-founder/CTO
Shmoop
(E-Learning industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Shmoop is an educational company focused on making learning less cumbersome and more fun for high-school and college students. Our initial product is a mix of web tools and proprietary content that goes deeper and broader into the literature and US History topics commonly covered in late high-school and early college classes. Our content has been developed by PhD students, teachers and professors from some of the best schools in the country. It's witty, current and resonant with our users. Quite basically, we've taken the first step in making learning more of the 'kick ass' experience it should be rather than it being a complete drag.
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el señor del box de wip (CEO/Founder)
WipBox Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years)
Developed the idea for WipBox in December2006 as a way to sell items on eBay and Craigslist more quickly and easily. When 3000+ users signed up in the first month, decided to turn it into a more fully-featured offering.
Raised angel financing in Feb2007, built a thin but strong team of 5 and have launched the company's first 2 products in Jan2007 + April2007. -
Early guy who helped with some architecture and tech staffing
Fuzz Artists, Inc.
(Internet industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
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VP - Product & Technology Operations
Spark Networks, plc
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LOV; Internet industry)
February 2006 — June 2006 (5 months)
Spark Networks, plc. is a leading provider of online personals leveraging brands including JDate.com, AmericanSingles.com, Date.ca, Date.co.uk and nearly a dozen other international personals brands.
Operations
• Recruited, hired and turned-up 20+ “rock-star” quality (full-time and contract) people in less than 12 weeks
• Re-organized and managed Product Management, Creative Services, Engineering and Systems Engineering departments
• Developed an end-to-end Product Development process from conceptualization to deployment and analysis where none previously existed
• Built a Project Management team to drive process and “run” day-to-day projects
• Integrated SCM and Release Management staff and structure into Engineering
• Fully-documented existing Production environment (software and hardware systems) where none previously existed
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Founder/CEO
Dipsie
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 5 months)
Began working on Dipsie in late 2002 to address issues with current search technologies. Specifically the Deep Web and deeper semantic analysis of Web-based text documents. Architected and patented crawling and indexing technologies that uncover content not accessible by Google, Yahoo and MSN (et al) and identify the concepts and "utility" of documents (Quantum Lingustics).
Raised Series A venture financing, built the core team and launched the company's first product.
http://www.dipsie.com -
Founder/CEO
SON Heavy Industries
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 1997 — July 2002 (5 years 1 month)
Founded SON Heavy in '97. Integrated Digital Marketing Agency focusing on digital marketing and advertising and Web/Internet-based application development.
Digital Agency-of-Record - PowerBar 1999-2001
Clients included: Netscape/AOL, 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Games (in conjunction with SLOC and MSNBC), Macromedia. -
Super Intern
Slack Barshinger & Partners
(Internet industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Jason Wiener’s Education
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Marquette University
BS, September 1991 — December 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma Chi
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Jason Wiener’s Interests:
Formula Car racing, snowboarding, jet skiing, bicycling, running, gym, surfing
Jason Wiener’s Groups:
Skip Barber Race Series, Boys and Girls Club of Chicago - Guild Board, I.A.T.S.E. Studio Mechanics Local 476, Sigma Chi
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Marquette University Alumni Association (MUAA)
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