Principal, Endevver Consulting
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Co-founder and board member at Open Melody Software Group
- Principal and Chief Architect at Endevver Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Application Architect at Textura Design
- Product Manager, Professional Products Group at Six Apart
- Lead author, Hacking Movable Type at Wiley and Sons Publishing
- Contractor - Web developer at Interaction Design Institute - Ivrea
- Contractor - Web developer at Adaptive Path
- Director at i-drive.com
- Product Manager at idrive.com
- Developer/Sr System Administrator at SBC SmartPages
- Education
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- University of Texas at Austin
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Jay Allen’s Experience
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Co-founder and board member
Open Melody Software Group
(Internet industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
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Principal and Chief Architect
Endevver Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Endevver (http://endevver.com) works primarily with larger companies who wish to embrace social media in a desire to derive more value from their interactions with their customers/visitors or from their own internal group collaboration and processes.
This takes varying forms depending on the needs of each client and can include:
* Strategy consultation
* Needs assessment and selection of tools/services
* Application development, customization, integration and deployment
The majority of our work currently involves Movable Type v4 (http://www.movabletype.com/) as a tool for blogging, aggregation and content management, but we also work with other software and web services and develop custom applications. -
Application Architect
Textura Design
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 3 months)
We mostly work with Fortune 500 companies on areas of strategy, implementation and customization related to blogging. As Application Architect, I am responsible for the technical direction of the company and it's projects.
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Product Manager, Professional Products Group
Six Apart
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 1 month)
During my tenure at Six Apart, I served as Product Manager for Movable Type and the newly released Movable Type Enterprise.
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Lead author, Hacking Movable Type
Wiley and Sons Publishing
(Writing and Editing industry)
March 2004 — February 2005 (1 year )
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Contractor - Web developer
Interaction Design Institute - Ivrea
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
June 2003 — November 2003 (6 months)
Sole developer working on creation of the Interaction Design Hub (http://hub.interaction-ivrea.it/) and Ivrea's Bluhaus intranet site (http://bluhaus.interaction-ivrea.it).
Both projects were developed using XHTML-strict and made heavy use of Movable Type as a site-wide CMS and PHP for dynamic elements. Integrated phpBB with Movable Type for user authentication and profile management. -
Contractor - Web developer
Adaptive Path
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2003 — June 2003 (2 months)
Revamped Adaptive Path's back end systems with a particular emphasis on XHTML-strict compliance, Movable Type (as a site-wide CMS and PHP.
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Director
i-drive.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 1999 — August 2001 (1 year 9 months)
During my tenure at i-drive, I held many roles, most of which were newly created positions which needed someone to jump-start them.
+ Technical Lead - Music/Entertainment products
+ Manager, Business Development - "
+ Director of product management - "
+ Director of prod. mgmt - Demand Management
+ Director of prod mgmt - Core Products
Demand Management - Responsibile for controlling system abuse by users who had created methods of automated system access. Oversaw development of technical protection measures such as first commercially deployed CAPTCHA, system of dynamic bandwidth allocation and system management interfaces. In the end, saved i-drive over $10 million (amortized) in bandwidth and disk storage costs.
In the core products management position, I was in charge of direction and development of the core technology underlying the i-drive system. Through a set of API's this technology served as a platform for partner's (and ourselves) to build upon. -
Product Manager
idrive.com
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
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Developer/Sr System Administrator
SBC SmartPages
(Internet industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Jay Allen’s Education
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University of Texas at Austin
BA , Biology/Chemistry , September 1988 — August 1993
- Activities and Societies:
- UT Sailing Team (Captain), Beta Theta Pi, Texas Distinguished Speakers Commitee
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Jay Allen’s Groups:
Black Rock Rangers
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Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin -
The Open Melody Software Group
Jay Allen’s Honors:
National Merit Scholar, 1988
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