Jesse Silver

Current

Co-Founder at Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum
Co-Founder at CloudCamp

Past

Project Kenai Community Manager at Sun Microsystems
Community Strategy for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems
Program Manager, OpenSolaris Marketing at Sun Microsystems

Student Intern/Campus Ambassador - Edu Marketing at Sun Microsystems
Student Intern - Edu Sales at Sun Microsystems

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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Connections

115 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Jesse Silver’s Summary

In my ten years of software industry experience (beginning at age 15) I have built two companies, Digital Liquid and Kryptic Media, and two non-profits, CloudCamp and CCIF, and have directly participated in the development and roll out of two high profile products, Sun's OpenSolaris and Sun's Cloud Platform. Owing to this rapid sucession of achievements I have secured a reputation for ingenuity, leadership and excellence that continues to prove itself invaluable to any team on which I serve.

Jesse Silver’s Specialties:

Cloud computing and related technologies, outbound marketing, community management and development, operating systems, virtualization and, of course, office politics.

Jesse Silver’s Experience

Co-Founder

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

– CCIF is an open, vendor neutral, not for profit community of technology advocates and consumers dedicated to driving the rapid adoption of global cloud computing services.

– CCIF has held two large in-person meetings, one I personally executed and helped lead. The effort is coordinated through our public forum, 800+ members strong.

– Our latest project envisions the creation of a cloud industry trade organization. We are currently in process of building community consensus around this effort.
Co-Founder

CloudCamp

(Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

– Helped found CloudCamp, building it from our first event in San Francisco, April 2008, to a global network of cloud computing communities and events. We have so far held 21 camps, have 40+ planned for the coming months and have influenced thousands of cloud consumers.

– Personally helped plan, market and manage three events: San Francisco (400 attendees), Silicon Valley (200 attendees), and New York (150 attendees).

– Key member of CloudCamp leadership team, helping to set strategy and expand our community.
Project Kenai Community Manager

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — January 2009 (6 months)

– Spoke as the community voice for Project Kenai, Sun's new SaaS software development platform.

– Helped grow Kenai from 80 members on launch to 5000 members in three months.

– Drove product requirements based on community input and evangelized Sun's vision to the community.
Community Strategy for Cloud Computing

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — August 2008 (8 months)

-- Working to connect Sun Microsystems to existing Cloud Computing communities, and to help foster the growth of the global cloud computing community.
Program Manager, OpenSolaris Marketing

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)

Worked on the "Project Indiana" team - a small group inside Solaris marketing charged w/ the development of OpenSolaris as a freestanding operating system, then bringing the new OS to market.
Student Intern/Campus Ambassador - Edu Marketing

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

March 2006 — September 2006 (7 months)

-- Worked as the Campus Ambassador for UC Santa Cruz
-- Worked as an Intern in Edu Marketing
Student Intern - Edu Sales

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2004 — November 2004 (6 months)

-- Worked in Educational Sales as a Sales Engineering Intern

Jesse Silver’s Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Biology, Philosophy, Music 2001 — 2007

Left school to pursue happiness.

Activities and Societies:

Founding Father of the AEPi Fraternity at UC Santa Cruz, UCSC Hillel Board member