Justin Kruger

Current

Sr. Software Developer at MySpace
Owner/ Primary Contributor at Social Helix
Chief Executive Brainstormer at Fireseed

Vice President at Tectrum Corp.

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Past

Software Engineering Consultant at hi5 Networks
SL Site Developer at Manpower
Board of Directors at eInnovate

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

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Industry

Computer Software

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Justin Kruger’s Summary

Justin Kruger is a creative and entrepreneurial technologist and has been working as an engineer for over 8 years. He got his start In technology at the age of 17 while still in High School working for an upcoming technology consulting company as a draftsman, programmer and recruiter. He remembers making cold calls (sometimes even to the deceased, which were never fun and a bit awkward) interviewing people, and booking contracts with companies like Abbott, and Baxter. Ever since Justin has worn multiple hats as a designer, engineer, entrepreneur, and community builder building the success of everyone around him.

Justin has so much passion for technology that he has been involved in at least 5 startups, and is determined to one day succeeds big with one of them. He had hoped that his startup Social Helix would succeed, however he and his cofounder found themselves moving from Milwaukee, WI to San Francisco California during the worst recession in over 70 years to raise funds. Justin quickly got a contract at Hi5.com to pay the bills, while his cofounder Jon Thoms took a job at Playdom.com. Justin was later recruited to work for MySpace in LA in December 2008 to work on OpenID.

In December of 2008, Justin joined MySpace to build the MySpaceID product. MySpaceID serves as an OpenID provider that allows MySpace to make it’s Social APIs available to 1st, , 2nd, and 3rd party apps/ sites, while giving users the ability to manage the privileges those apps have to their photos, friends and other social data. MySpaceID supports the open standards behind OAuth, and OpenID 2.0 while competing directly with Facebook Connect. Justin’s work for MySpaceID was demoed live at the Spring 2009 DEMO as MySpace’s flagship feature, and his last work at MySpace just launched in fall 2009 under the name MySpace JSL ( javascript library ).
Today, Justin is consulting, and working on a few social media side projects that might turn into a new startup or two.

Justin Kruger’s Specialties:

Brainstorming, .Net, Web Technologies, entrepreneurship

Justin Kruger’s Experience

Sr. Software Developer

MySpace

(Public Company; NWS; Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

I am working on the DA team which is a set of initiatives that go beyond OpenSocial.
Owner/ Primary Contributor

Social Helix

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

June 2006 — Present (3 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 (4 years 5 months)

We have about 20-50 people on the email list.
Vice President

Tectrum Corp.

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

December 2003 — Present (6 years )
Software Engineering Consultant

hi5 Networks

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

July 2008 — October 2008 (4 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.
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.
Board of Directors

eInnovate

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2005 — June 2008 (3 years )

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