Head of Engineering at Intent Media Inc.
Greater New York City Area
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- Head of Engineering at Intent Media Inc.
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- Start-up Technical Consultant at Self Employed (Self-employed)
- Community Evangelist at Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
- Software Architect / Marketer / PM / Biz Dev at Collaborative Drug Discovery
- President and Co-Founder at Ten Ton Labs
- Software Team Lead at ThoughtWorks
- Senior Engineer / System Architect at Indigo Security LLC
- Software Engineer at University of Michigan
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- University of Michigan
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Kurt Schrader’s Summary
My experiences have spanned the entire spectrum of responsibilities, from development work, to working as a consultant and development team lead, to co-founding several companies.
I am a strong technical leader who does what it takes to get and keep the technical side of a business on track.
I have been a co-founder of two companies and an early employee in two others. I specialize in getting projects running from the ground up and turning ideas into fully realized and implemented applications.
Kurt Schrader’s Specialties:
Software project management, agile software development, community marketing, customer acquisition
Kurt Schrader’s Experience
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Head of Engineering
Intent Media Inc.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
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Start-up Technical Consultant
Self Employed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — March 2009 (9 months)
Worked with a number of number of start-ups in various technical consulting roles, including:
- Original VP of Engineering and prototype software build-out at a stealth advertising start-up
- Building various production applications for Triggit Inc.
- Original technical specifications and estimates for an iPhone application -
Community Evangelist
Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
Tend to the growing CDD community by connecting people to one another and keeping our users excited, involved, and informed about what we're doing.
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Software Architect / Marketer / PM / Biz Dev
Collaborative Drug Discovery
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Doing a bit of everything to make a startup work.
I did software work in Rails about 70% of the time, and balanced it with handling customer needs, designing and managing our product, planning and executing marketing campaigns, creating new communication channels with our customers, and helping to plan the overall long term vision and goals with the CEO. -
President and Co-Founder
Ten Ton Labs
(Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Founded and ran Ten Ton Labs, a consulting and consumer facing startup that revolved around aggregating vast amounts of data from the web in order to identify general trends in the people's opinions on products and services. Our initial product, Squishr, was a music focused search engine written in Ruby and Rails that helped to find new music that users might like, as well as old music similar to their favorites that they might have missed in the past.
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Software Team Lead
ThoughtWorks
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)
July 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 9 months)
Lead teams of 8-12 developers over the course of several client projects. I was responsible for the direction and overall technical execution of the projects. My teams, which consisted of a mix of client and Thoughtworks developers, consistently delivered on time and on schedule, and exceded client expectations in every case.
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Senior Engineer / System Architect
Indigo Security LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 5 months)
Led the development of the administration console and server side application used for customer management of security policy on our device.
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Software Engineer
University of Michigan
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 9 months)
Lead engineer on a number of distance learning centered software projects.
Kurt Schrader’s Education
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University of Michigan
BSE , Computer Engineering , 1997 — 2001
Minor in Philosophy
Kurt Schrader’s Contact Settings
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