Jesse Boyes
176 Johnson St. Apt 6D
Brooklyn, NY 11201
http://www.jexe.net; j@jexe·net
Expertise:
Programming/Scripting/Markup
  • Java, C, Objective C, C++, PERL, Ruby
  • J2ME (MIDP 1.0 and 2.0), BREW 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
  • J2SE 1.5, Applets, JUnit, Log4J, FitNesse
  • SOAP
  • JSP, CGI
  • Intel 80x86 Assembly
  • XML, HTML/XHTML, WML, Javascript
  • 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
  • Ongoing study in 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:
    Mobile Architect / Founder - Theoretic Labs, Inc. May 2006-Present
  • Theoretic Labs is a startup focusing on mobile downloadable application and WAP consulting as well as in-house game development.
  • Mitosis - Game title to be launched on T-Mobile and other carriers in October 2007. Most handset porting performed in-house, including several US handsets and 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 tenfold 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 - Zingy, Inc. Dec 2005-Feb 2006
    Associate Director, Downloadable Applications - Zingy, Inc. June 2005-Dec 2005
  • Both Zingy and Vindigo were acquired by Japanese company For-Side.com, and in June 2005 the two were merged into Zingy, Inc.
  • 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.