Justin Kruger

Current

Software Engineering Consultant at hi5 Networks
Owner/ Primary Contributor at Social Helix
Chief Executive Brainstormer at Fireseed

Board of Directors at eInnovate
Vice President at Tectrum Corp.

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Past

SL Site Developer at Manpower
Owner at Ideix
Software Developer at Physicians Accounting

Co-op Engineering Internship at Cooper Power Systems

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Education

Marquette University
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

Recommended

4 people have recommended Justin

Connections

239 connections

Industry

Think Tanks

Websites

Justin Kruger’s Summary

As a Creative Engineer with entrepreneurial goals and ambitions, I have been involved in the development of several startups ranging from BioTech to mostly social. My latest endeavor is a Casual Think Tank, that I call Fireseed. Fireseed hopes to break out of the research park mold and break out from under the arm of established organizations like university's, corporation, and government agencies so that more people can start doing rather than searching after credentials.

I love to meet new people and I will only add you as a contact if we have worked on something together. I want to KNOW who I am recommending for things. So send me a message, and lets talk on the phone or over coffee, beer.

My past experiences have led me into Database design, Visual Interface Design, DCC(digital content creation) hardware design(render farms, nodes, workstations ), Biomedical product development, FDA process design, .Net Application Development, Document Management Systems, Content Management Systems, Social/Community Software and my favorite, Web Design.

I am currently eager to place some bets on Web 2.0 technologies and complete some projects based on AJAX, Lazslo, and Ruby on Rails.

As a hobby I am currently researching AI(artificial intelligence), GA (genetic algorithms), and fractal relationships in the natural world.

Justin Kruger’s Specialties:

Brainstorming, .Net, Web Technologies

Justin Kruger’s Experience

Software Engineering Consultant

hi5 Networks

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

July 2008 — Present (5 months)

Currently working to revamp the companies photo uploading processes. This job will be part UI development, and part back end work on an n-tiered Java architecture. The Front end will either be written in AS3/ Flash/ Flex or Java depending on the current release cycle and install base of Flash 10/ 9 and Java.
Owner/ Primary Contributor

Social Helix

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Coordinate the development of an online social networking site devoted to event networking and calendar sharing.
Chief Executive Brainstormer

Fireseed

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

July 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

We have about 20-50 people on the email list.
Board of Directors

eInnovate

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2005 — Present (3 years)

Aid in economic development events and networking for the region surrounding Milwaukee, WI.
Vice President

Tectrum Corp.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

December 2003 — Present (5 years)
SL Site Developer

Manpower

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MAN; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

March 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Built a portal and registration site as part of Manpower's Virtual World of Work initiative in Second Live. I specifically worked on the website, and the registration process that created AVs or Avatars.
Owner

Ideix

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

December 2002 — July 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Ideix was an intellectual managment company in the space of Document Management and IP exchange systems. Ideix chose to go with an IBM Content Manager platform to implement our ASP based document management system. The goal was for Ideix to become the leading distributor of information and innovation acceleration systems that reduce time to market for the average innovation by several orders of mangnitude, from years to months. Simpler systems in use today like wiki's are still not able to facilitate documentation heavy projects like Biomedical or DOD innovations.
Software Developer

Physicians Accounting

(Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — February 2004 (11 months)

Developed .Net code for a Visual Interface or GUI as part of the development of a state of the art multi-tiered medical billing application. Worked in c#.net and VB.net.
Co-op Engineering Internship

Cooper Power Systems

(Public Company; Think Tanks industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years)

Justin Kruger’s Education

Marquette University

BS, Computer Engineering, 1997 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

ACM, Art Club, Engineering Student Council, Sigma Phi Delta
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

non degree, Design, 1999 — 2001