Founder/CEO of Compulsivo, Inc.
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- Founder/CEO at Compulsivo, Inc.
- Past
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- Software Group Manager at National Instruments
- Applications Engineer at National Instruments
- Software Engineer at Cisco
- Co-Op Engineer at Adtran
- Co-Op Engineer at Adtran
- Student Assistant at University of Tennessee
- Education
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- University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Justin Britten’s Summary
An entrepreneur developing web applications using Ruby on Rails since March 2007.
Justin Britten’s Specialties:
Ruby on Rails, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, MySQL, and UNIX system administration.
Justin Britten’s Experience
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Founder/CEO
Compulsivo, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
A bootstrapping entrepreneur developing Web applications using Ruby on Rails.
Developer of Prefinery (www.prefinery.com) - simple, online beta management software that improves beta testing by making it easy to collect customer feedback through surveys, comments, feature requests, and bug reports. -
Software Group Manager
National Instruments
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NATI; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — May 2008 (3 years 10 months)
• Lead a team of nine Software Engineers and two Project Managers in the Application Software Technologies group -- responsible for software installation, activation, and distribution technologies.
• Manage over 25 software projects using the NI Software Engineering Process methodology, a home-grown, common-sense approach to Project Management. Projects include numerous releases of:
- NI Developer Suite, a subscription-based, bundled software suite including almost the entire NI software platform, representing annual revenue of over $80 million dollars.
- NI Installers Framework, a company-wide, shared installer user interface and toolset riding on top of Microsoft’s Installer framework (MSI).
- NI License Manager and NI Volume License Manager applications for software asset management.
- NI Registration Wizard, a software registration application which helps customers register their purchased software and hardware. -
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NATI; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 2 months)
• Support customers via phone and email with core software products, including LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI, as well as over 500 data acquisition, signal conditioning, digitizer (scope), signal generator (ARB), multimeter (DMM), digital input/output, and switch hardware products.
• Team Leader of 8 Application Engineers in the Modular Instrumentation Hardware Specialty Group.
• Teach Customer Education courses on National Instruments software and hardware products. -
Software Engineer
Cisco
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
September 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 9 months)
• Lead role in maintenance and enhancement of Cisco’s ROM Monitor (ROMMON) component, which is responsible for Cisco Integrated Operating System (IOS) bootstrap. Primary development in ANSI C and Assembly for MIPS and Motorola-based processors.
• Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Protocol Development, which included working as a critical member in the implementation of the draft IETF Diameter standard on Solaris and Linux. Primary development in ANSI C.
• Worked to advance and maintain Cisco IOS – the operating system used on almost all Cisco hardware. -
Co-Op Engineer
Adtran
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADTN; Telecommunications industry)
August 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Co-Op Engineer in the Enterprise Software Design Group where I did embedded systems software design, development, and test on Motorola PowerPC MPC860 and MC68EN302 architectures.
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Co-Op Engineer
Adtran
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADTN; Telecommunications industry)
January 1999 — May 1999 (5 months)
Co-Op Engineer in the Product Qualification Lab where I tested and evaluated T1, DSL, Frame Relay, ISDN, and DDS products.
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Student Assistant
University of Tennessee
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
March 1995 — May 1999 (4 years 3 months)
Installed and configured hubs, routers, switches, and network interface cards on a campus-wide scale. Primary responsibilities also included troubleshooting of University personnel computer and network problems, monitoring campus network and responding to network and computer help line calls, and configuring and administrating Sun Workstations.
Justin Britten’s Education
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University of Tennessee-Knoxville
BS , Electrical Engineering , 1997 — 2002
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Justin Britten’s Groups:
Bootstrap Austin, Austin on Rails
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National Instruments Alumni
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