Jacob Andersen
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822 South Slate Canyon Drive Phone: (801) 362-5519
Provo, UT 84606
E-mail: ajandersen@gmail.com
Education
Ø Masters of Business
Administration – May
2008
Utah State
University – Utah.
Ø Bachelors of Computer
Science – June 2004
Brigham
Young University – Utah.
Ø LPI (Linux Professional) week-long training completed 2005.
Ø SCRUM: Lean Management training completed during
the summer of 2007.
Work Experience
Ø Omniture Inc. Provo
UT 2007–
Current
Software Web Engineer
– Project Lead
·
Acted
as Project lead in designing and developing a central authentication service
utilized by the entire company’s product-line and utilized by Omniture’s
acquisitions. This service consisted of a web layer, a SOAP layer, LDAP
business logic, and an LDAP user store.
·
Was
an active participant in the creation of a single-sign-on solution that works
with all of the Omniture products, and also works with third-party customer
custom applications.
·
Developed
in php using Eclipse on Omniture’s flagship product, SiteCatalyst.
Ø Novell Inc. Provo
UT 2004
– 2007
Software Engineer-
Lead
·
Lead
a team of 10 engineers dedicated to automating and testing ZENworks, Novell’s
asset management software and one of the top revenue generating products.
·
Wrote
an automation suite in C# and python that would re-image a set of machines,
install our product, and run a set of smoke tests to make sure that our weekly
build was in a state that our QA engineers could run their validation
tests. The entire test group and several
developers use this program regularly.
·
Participated
in the open source community by creating a dynamic test harness that would
automatically test the validity of mof files submitted by open source
contributors.
·
Wrote
a CIM provider in C++ that will do a self-check of the state of the CIMOM
running on a Linux system. This provider
is now found on distributions on Linux that include OpenWBEM (such as SUSE
Linux Open Enterprise System 2).
·
Wrote
several automation scripts in C#, Python, PERL, TSL, and C++ for the purpose of
simplifying the current test process.
·
Recognized
for dedication and strong work ethic by earning the “Engineer of the Month”
award three times.
Ø My Kids Browser, LLC. Provo UT 2005
- 2008
President and
Principal Engineer: Designed, programmed, and marketed an
Internet browser created for children.
The product generates revenue from online sales, physical packaged media
sold in stores located in 7 states, and royalties from 3rd party
companies who bundle the software within their products. Handled everything from the website creation
and maintenance (www.mykidsbrowser.com), sales, anti-piracy effort, automatic
software updates, marketing, financial accounting, etc.
The
client side software for My Kids Browser is written in C# (.NET 2.0) while the
mykidsbrowser.com website is written in PHP and MySQL.
Ø Novell Inc. Provo UT 2001
– 2004
Software
Engineer-Intern: Created and executed test cases for the
testing of Novell products. Entered and
regressed defects on a daily basis.
Contributed to the OpenWBEM open source project by writing a mof file
syntax and a modeling verifier in PERL.
Wrote a php website for progression tracking of OpenWBEM providers to be
used by the Novell OES team and the open source community. Also wrote several automation scripts using
PERL and WinRunner for quick, automated installation and testing of these
products.
Websites -
Portfolio
Ø My Kids Browser – www.mykidsbrowser.com.
The web front-end to
sell the My Kids Browser product. Also
receives REST requests from installed clients to keep track of trial periods,
registered copies, and piracy.
Ø Smart PageRank – www.smartpagerank.com.
Receives over 3000
unique visitors per day and has become an authority site for Internet marketers
and webmasters. The site uses PHP, MySQL, SOAP, AJAX, and Javascript.
Skills
C# eDirectory openLDAP SUSE Linux PHP
SSO
Design JavaScript PERL Python HTML
Java VMware Apache Visual Studio .Net 2005 MySQL