Jordan Bortz

Current

• Senior Architect/Consultant at Jordan Bortz Consulting (Self-employed)

Past

• CEO at Tigre Object Systems

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Home Page
• My Blog

Jordan Bortz’s Summary

I am a Senior Software Engineer/Architect with over 20 years experience,including 7 years in C#/.NET (including VS.NET 2005), as well as 5 years of Java, 4 years of C++, 5 years of C, and 11 years of Smalltalk, which is the predecessor of C#, Java, and Ruby.

I specialize in Software Architecture and Design utilizing technlogies such as Windows Forms, ASP.NET development, C#/C++/Java, Audio, Image, and Video Processing, DirectShow/DirectX, and related activities.

o Proven track record of achieving on time and on budget completion of software development tasks

o Broad and Deep Expertise in all areas of Software Development, richness of experience

o Over 20 years in professional software development, most of which have been in Object Oriented disciplines

o "Get it right the first time" approach saves time and money and prevents lengthy debug and rework cycles

o Able to provide up to 3x-10x the productivity of mid level talent. There truly is no comparison between Architects like myself who have been through the full SDLC on numerous high visibility projects and can get it done right the first time and juniors who are learning on the job

o Able to provide expertise to companies needing my level of talent on a telecommute basis; clients served on this basis include Plantronics, Creative Labs, Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems and many other Bay Area companies...
Some of my career highlights include:

o Designed new API, Back End and front end for a leading online Video Company

o Designed 4TB backend for ezboard.com, one of the top 125 most accessed sites on the web handling hundreds of millions of page views per week

o Designed one of the first SOA architectures using SOAP/XML for Covad, a large telecommunications company

o Designed first commercial GUI builder for any object oriented language

Jordan Bortz’s Specialties:

C#/.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Windows Forms, Web Services, DirectX/DirectShow, Audio, Video, and Image Processing, Remoting, Win32, ADO.NET, Ruby on Rails, Java, IIS, JSP, XML, Smalltalk, SqlServer, mySQL, Windows XP, Linux, WPF, SilverLight, Ajax

Jordan Bortz’s Experience

• Senior Architect/Consultant

  Jordan Bortz Consulting (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1992 — Present (16 years 10 months)

  I have been a consultant in the area OOP implementations and designs for over 15 years.
  
  Currently I specialize in C#/.NET with an emphasis on WinForms, Audio, Image, and Video Processing and Transcoding, and High Volume, High Availability applications.
  
  My clients have included companies such as Creative Labs, Sun Microsystems, Plantronics, Applied Materials, as well as startups and .Coms like ezboard.com.
  
  I am available for high level consulting positions on a telecommute basis.

• CEO

  Tigre Object Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1987 — 1992 (5 years)

  Created Tigre Object Systems to supply the first full featured GUI builder for the Smalltalk language.
  
  Raised Angel and First Round funding of ~$1mm.
  Managed Sales team serving "Fortune 1000" companies like Pac Bell, AMD, Novell, General Dynamics, Mitsui Bank and more.
  Lead Designer and CTO of our ground breaking product. Managed development efforts and led the creation of new enhancements.

Additional Information

Jordan Bortz’s Websites:

• My Home Page
• My Blog

Jordan Bortz’s Interests:

.net, biking, c, c#, c++, computers, csharp, imagine cup, it, japanese, jazz, music, guitar, piano, drums, microsoft, microsoft office, microsoft technologies, programming, reading, research, rock, science, technologies, windows .net, dotnet,csharp,gaming,games

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