Jay Yukes

Current

Bartender / Cabana Boy at www.yukes.com

Past

Senior Consultant at Beyond Commerce, Inc.
Senior Consultant at Clickbooth.com
Senior Consultant at Global Connect

Senior Consultant / Team Lead at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Team Lead at ePods
Senior Consultant at RealNetworks
Senior Consultant at Airborne Express

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Education

University of Washington

Recommended

4 people have recommended Jay

Connections

238 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

www.yukes.com

Jay Yukes’s Summary

Senior Technologist with experience at all levels of the stack.
Shifted gears and now focused on direct marketing.

Jay Yukes’s Specialties:

Offer creation and syndication
Product sourcing and fulfillment expertise
Demonstrating superior ROI using better analytics

Jay Yukes’s Experience

Bartender / Cabana Boy

www.yukes.com

(Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Offer Creation and Syndication
- clone, build out and white label any top performing offer
- full lifecycle from marketing to fulfillment
- drive earnings by relentlessly split testing new ideas

Consulting for a leading Info Product Marketer
- increased traffic 10x - total niche domination
- developed sophisticated traffic auditing and fraud detection tools
- produced unusually fast return of capital in competitive niche
Senior Consultant

Beyond Commerce, Inc.

(Public Company; BYOC; Internet industry)

February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

- deployed memcached and Multi-Master MySQL DB clusters with sharding
- deployed Sphinx for full text search with geospatial extensions and near real-time indexing
- accounting automation via QuickBooks API integration
- developed comprehensive organic SEO strategy
- advanced ad strategy and API integration with Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter
Senior Consultant

Clickbooth.com

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)

- Deployed memcached, message queue infrastructure, and application layer DB sharding
- Site can now operate read+write with DB down
- Developed industry leading ad tracking system <15ms response
- Performed multiple no-downtime critical infrastructure upgrades
- Established important consulting arrangements
- Performed technical due dilligence for potential acquisitions
- Started IT Book Club, encouraging continuous education
Senior Consultant

Global Connect

(Telecommunications industry)

December 2000 — January 2007 (6 years 2 months)

- Hired IT team of 15, made compensation and incentive plan, developed IT culture
- Wrote VoIP Softswitch, smart high performance dialer, distributed RAM caching (Win32 C++)
* H.323 integration with Genuity (2002)
* SIP integration with Level3, Qwest, ATT, CommPartners (2004)
- Audio Signal Analysis, Live Speaker Detection, Tone Detection, Real-Time File Recording, Interrupt Mitigation
- Designed multi-master, multi-slave MySQL DB that has 400G of data... and multiple tables with Billions of rows, that regularly join
- Lead introduction of AJAX - Google Maps integration, jQuery, DWR, real-time charting
- Lead website development (Java, JSP, J2EE, DHTML, Javascript)
- Developed cluster technology for high speed Text-To-Speech audio generation (Perl, Python, C++, Linux)
- Designed logical system partioning for High Availability and Performance (400Mbps, super high PPS)
* OpenBSD/Linux gigabit firewalls with VLANs for network partitioning
Senior Consultant / Team Lead

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

(Public Company; CAP; Management Consulting industry)

January 2001 — March 2001 (3 months)

- Worked with Jobline.co.uk now part of Monster.com
- Coached team of 50, wrote critical system components, and re-usable libraries (Vignette, TCL, MS SQL)
- Lead translation/ internationalization effort
- Performed regualr code review, and found several security vulnerabilities
Team Lead

ePods

(Internet industry)

January 2000 — August 2000 (8 months)

- Lead a team, building web based email, address book (TCL, Vignette, Oracle)
- Introduced advanced Javascript (pre-AJAX, DynAPI)
- Designed tablet-based, handwritten email (WinCE, ActiveX)
Senior Consultant

RealNetworks

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; RNWK; Computer Software industry)

May 1999 — January 2000 (9 months)

- Digital Island - wrote complex SSL-based content delivery solution, with fault tolerance, rate limiting and distributed PKI (Linux, Solaris C++, Oracle)
- Internal - Wrote null rendering streaming quality analysis solution (Linux Perl, C++, Oracle)
- Morgan Stanley - created custom Real player that implemented network policies (Win32, C++)
Senior Consultant

Airborne Express

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABF; Package/Freight Delivery industry)

May 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 1 month)

- Wrote a super high performance web-based shipment tracker (C++, HPUX, HLLAPI, IBM 3270 screen scraping)
- Wrote an EDI solution with HTTP and FTP interface, replacing old modem bank solution (PHP, Linux, MySQL)
- Implemented Cisco caching and load balancing solution, managed over 500 distributed Cisco routers