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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Computer Software

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Justin Kruger’s Summary

I just accepted a Job at MySpace, which is great since I love the idea of software and computers getting more human.

In my spare time I work on widgets, thingamajigers, and whosamawhatchamacallits. I see the web application space moving in the same direction that applications did in the 90s on windows with OLE, but this time we get to share social data rather than just spreadsheets.

I would like to see a day were we can share photos, documents, and virtual worlds with our friends and coworkers. If you have not read snow crash and or diamond age, you should!

Justin Kruger’s Specialties:

Brainstorming, .Net, Web Technologies

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