Jesse Boyes
176 Johnson St. Apt 6D
Brooklyn, NY 11201
http://www.jexe.net; j@jexe·net

Acronyms and Buzzwords:
Programming/Scripting/Markup
  • Java, Objective C, Ruby, C, C++, PERL
  • iPhone SDK
  • J2ME (MIDP 1.0 and 2.x), BREW 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
  • J2SE 1.5, Applets, JUnit, Log4J, FitNesse
  • JSP, Velocity, CGI
  • Intel 80x86 Assembly
  • XML, HTML/XHTML, WML, Javascript, AJAX, SOAP, REST
  • Swing, AWT, GTK

    • Development Environments
  • Eclipse, EclipseME, NetBeans
  • Apple Xcode, Interface Builder
  • Microsoft Visual Studio, eMbedded Visual C++
  • Apache Ant, make
  • Apache Tomcat and JServ servlet engines
  • Subversion, CVS/RCS
  • Linux, FreeBSD, Windows

    • Data
  • XML: SAX, JDOM, XMLPull
  • SQL databases (primarily MySQL)
  • NAVTEQ and TIGER/LINE map data format and semantics

    • Formal Education:
    University of New Mexico, August 1997-December 1999
  • Computer Science major, Mathematics minor
    • Language
  • 2.5 years Japanese at the Tenri Cultural Institute
  • 1.5 years Mandarin Chinese at the China Institute
    • Other Interests and Projects:
    Volunteer English Teacher - International Center December 2002-Present
  • Helping immigrants and long-term visitors to New York learn conversational English

    • etc
  • Home automation, evolutionary programming, music production, visual and interactive art, usability and interface design, foreign language/linguistics, mathematics (number theory/logic)
    • Work Experience:
    Co-Founder - Seed Wireless September 2007-Present
  • Architecture and development of Outalot, a location-based, multi-platform resource for finding bars, movies, shops, and food nearby. Outalot was launched in Spring 2008 and supports the desktop web, iPhone, and other mobile handsets. Integration points include Twitter, 8coupons, Cinema-Source, Fire Eagle, and Google Maps. iPhone App launched Febuary 2009.
    • Founder - Theoretic Labs, Inc. May 2006-Present
  • Theoretic Labs is a mobile development studio focusing on downloadable application and mobile web consulting, as well as in-house game and app development.
  • iPhone App Development - Several titles currently in the app store.
  • Mitosis - Game title launched on T-Mobile in October 2007, and internationally on Sidekick in January 2009. Most handset porting performed in-house, including BlackBerry devices.
  • DivX: Mobile RSS Reader for J2ME devices. Reader supports multimedia enclosures, including video and audio streaming.
  • MTV: Porting J2ME video game Team Sanchez across several US handsets.

    • Mobile Architect - Reuters Feb 2006-July 2007
  • Design, architecture, and implementation of US WAP site mobile.reuters.com. Features include news, weather forecasts, quote lookup, and mobile video. mobile.reuters.com was nominated for a 2007 Webby Award, and user traffic grew many orders of magnitude between June 2006 and June 2007.
  • Design, architecture, and implementation of US SMS alerts system.
    Features include news alerts and stock quote lookup.

    • Director, Downloadable Applications - Vindigo, Inc. Dec 2005-Feb 2006
    Associate Director, Downloadable Applications - Vindigo, Inc. June 2005-Dec 2005
  • Lead a team of engineers in development of NBC Weather Plus mobile application.
  • Architected improvements over the existing Vindigo J2ME client to support advanced UI features (customizable component layout and focus control, etc).

    • Senior Software Engineer - Vindigo, Inc. October 2000-June 2005
  • Java, J2ME, BREW, C++, and PERL
  • Expert knowledge of porting network-aware J2ME applications across multiple handsets and carrier networks with widely varying capabilities.
  • Lead architect in Vindigo Traffic, a mobile realtime traffic data application. Features include mapping, user customization of traffic searches, and realtime SMS alerts.
  • Lead architect in Couch Potato mobile movie guide application. Interfaces to IMDB-like database and allows users to cross-reference directors, movies, actors, and awards.
  • Architected and implemented server-driven UI toolkit / browser for mobile handset in J2ME.
  • Design and development of several features of Vindigo's applications, including MapQuest Mobile, NYTimes, Sprint LBS autolocation, and many others.
  • Server-side content management system for incremental updates to mobile content
  • In-house tools for mapping, wireless server, database schema development, data management and content aggregation, Palm and PocketPC resource build code.
  • Map-rendering engine for PocketPC
  • eXtreme Programming development methodologies

    • Software Engineer - Independent Consultant June 2000-October 2000
  • Completed work includes development of web-based client software for ICI/ADP help desk. Perl/ASP, driven by a Remedy ARS database.

    • Systems Engineer - InfoRocket, Inc. December 1999-June 2000
  • Network design and administration for a rapidly-growing network.
  • Cisco hardware configuration (Catalyst 2900, 2600 Routers, Cisco PIX 520).
  • Construction of extensive system monitoring applications and daemons utilizing procmail, PERL/CGI, and other various unix tools.

    • Software Engineer - Sandia National Laboratories IS&RC June 1999-December 1999
  • Design, development, and deployment of a network-wide backup solution utilizing a Pioneer 500-CD jukebox burner. All code written in PERL and bash.

    • Optimization Engineer - University of New Mexico September 1998-November 1998
  • Optimization of cryptography-related C/Assembly functions for distributed signature algorithm. Intel 80x86 Assembly.

    • Administration/Support - Sandia National Laboratories June 1996-May 1999
  • Support and maintenance of a large cross-platform network. Network management using HP-Openview.