Developer, Entrepreneur, Scientist
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
- Current
- Past
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- Project Manager at Downtown Partners, Inc.
- Education
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- University of Northern Iowa
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Jake Good’s Summary
Software developer addict who enjoys all facets of writing (near) perfect code. Though I work as a consultant and/or product developer, my ultimate goal would be to do research with software focusing on artificial intelligence and applying biological theories, patterns, and concepts to software.
Jake Good’s Specialties:
Smart client development, mobile development (Windows Mobile and iPhone), web services development, social networks, desktop development (Windows and Mac), development processes, agile process management
Jake Good’s Experience
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Lead Developer
Drop.io
(Internet industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Working with a great team to develop the best collaboration tool on the internet.
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Platform Evangelist
Drop.io
(Internet industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
As Platform Evangelist, my goal is to build and drive a solid development community around the Drop.io API (http://api.drop.io). Not only am I actively developing the API, I'm also in charge of the community around the API and the sample code/applications associated to the API. Current there are well over 2000 developers and dozens of applications.
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Senior Consultant
Inetium
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)
Project lead, mentoring junior developers, leadership in software construction, process, and tools.
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Ruby Developer
space150
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Ruby on Rails development, .Net development, bringing creative technologies to businesses.
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Senior Consultant
Inetium
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 5 months)
Project lead, mentoring junior developers, leadership in software construction, process, and tools.
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Project Manager
Downtown Partners, Inc.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
February 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 4 months)
I managed an e-commerce project along with the Iowa Department of Economic Developement to provide e-commerce solutions for 24 businesses in a downtown district.
Jake Good’s Education
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University of Northern Iowa
BS , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002
BS Computer Science at UNI was more intensive than the BA Computer Science in credit requirements for higher level CS courses and math courses. Focus was on Artificial Intelligence.
- Activities and Societies:
- Resident Assistant
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Jake Good’s Interests:
video games, food, sleeping, bicycles
Jake Good’s Honors:
MCSD
MCAD
