Jim Puls

Current

• Retro-futurist at PBworks

Past

• VP Engineering at Increo Solutions
• Software Engineer at Apple
• Online Editor at The Tartan

• Intern at Apple
• Intern at Lockheed Martin

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

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Industry

Computer Software

Jim Puls’s Experience

• Retro-futurist

  PBworks

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• VP Engineering

  Increo Solutions

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 4 months)

  Joined seed-stage Stanford startup as employee #5. Built engineering practices from the ground up. Drove technology choices. Took embedit.in from idea to feature-complete in one week. Managed operations and scaling for web deployment infrastructure.

• Software Engineer

  Apple

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — May 2008 (2 years )

  Working on Mail in Mac OS X, I'm the local AppKit expert and enforcer of interface consistency.
  
  I can recite the complete spec for an iTunes-style source list in my sleep and show you which app is the only one that gets it exactly right.
  
  I get more joy out of ripping out code than writing it. "Simplicity" is my middle name.
  
  In the world of well-designed, usable software, I earn my living preaching to the choir.

• Online Editor

  The Tartan

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year )

  Re-created and re-launched The Tartan Online, a previously award-winning collegiate news website, and laid the groundwork for it to regain its status as one of the great college newspaper websites in the country.
  
  Oh, and the whole content management system behind it.

• Intern

  Apple

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

• Intern

  Lockheed Martin

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

  May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

  Well, I thought about the Army...
  
  Took dozens of database tables, hundreds of lines of Perl code, thousands of lines of XSL stylesheets, and magically combined them to create those 1300-page manuals that the government loves and actual users hate.

Jim Puls’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  B.S. , Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction , 2002 — 2006