Managing Member at www.citrusbyte.com
Greater Los Angeles Area
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Will Jessup’s Summary
2007- Founded CitrusByte LLC, (www.citrusbyte.com). We mix deep technology with design sensibilities in order to build competitive web application for our clients, who range from start-up to enterprise. In less than a year I grew the company to the largest Ruby on Rails (web application development technology) agency in Los Angeles and also opened an office in Buenos Aires. The company develops lots of open source work in labs.citrusbyte.com and I also organize the LA web app dev group (http://lawebdev.com) which has over 900 members.
2006 - Co-founded Kevo.com, a one-stop site for all information about people. co-wrote the business plan, raised angel capital, hired a tech team, developed the site on Symfony-project (php, mysql), evangelized the site. Site has grown to more than 100k/uniques/month. My role with Kevo now is the senior technical advisor.
2005-2006 - Tech Producer @ THE_GROOP (thegroop.net). Joined a design shop to head up their technology department. Went through my paces with management, programming, project management, etc. Met some great people whom I still work with.
2004-2005 - GameMethod.com. Thought I'd give a shot at making a great online gaming media site. I began writing articles and managed to make enough off adsense to pay for on-going site development. Hired one writer and half-dozen volunteers who cranked out nearly 2500 articles / posts in the first year. Learned to choose to pick which business I go into since the site never generated any profit after tons of effort.
Education - B.S. Physics, Cal Poly Pomona. Graduated 05'. Lots of studying.
