Justin Makeig

troove Inc.

• Played an integral part in a software start-up, planning, building, and launching a web-based enterprise search and business intelligence product
  • Gathered requirements and conducted market research to develop product strategy and feature set
  • Drove software architecture decisions, such as selecting and prototyping core frameworks and libraries over an 18-month development cycle
  • Successfully deployed first generation of the search appliance (hardware and software) at several customer sites. Conducted training and coordinated support.
  • Designed investor presentations and drafted a business plan in preparation for external funding. Actively participated in strategic planning and personnel decisions.
• Oversaw overall application user experience. Successfully balanced user expectations of web search with the unique demands of complex, high-volume transactional data. Leveraged modern technologies and methodologies, such as REST, AJAX and Flex to deliver rich, maintainable interfaces from reusable components.
• Led brand strategy. Developed product and company name and visual identity. Generated leads through direct sales presentations, online marketing, and trade show demonstrations.

ThatOne Company

• Designed and constructed a web-based recruiting tool to manage 1,500+ job applicants. Went from requirements to live application in two weeks.
• Provided architectural leadership and technical consulting for a national fitness chain in the development of Flex and J2EE rich client application used to drive membership sales.
• Built a light-weight, XML-based content management system for a Fortune 1000 customer to greatly reduce the cost of deploying content to their public web site. Reorganized site-wide information architecture to better align content with the site’s marketing and sales goals.

Center for Document Engineering, University of California

• Conducted research into model-driven application design using XML. Explored generating dynamic user interfaces and program logic from “business documents”.
• Worked in a start-up environment to plan and develop user interface components for the reference implementation of the XML Application Platform.
• Led the design and development of Center in Box, an all-in-one content management system targeted for the university’s many small and medium-sized research units.

Ernst & Young, LLP

• Worked in a small team of developers and tax professionals to design and build breakthrough tax-planning software for Ernst & Young’s Mergers and Acquisitions group. Responsibilities included:
  • Project planning and budgeting for $100,000 development cycle
  • Modeling complex tax and financial concepts
  • Application design and development
  • Testing and training in the field
• Designed an automated Excel-based tool to value a multi-billion dollar loan portfolio for the Federal Communications Commission in preparation for an external audit. Worked directly with the CFO to integrate complex borrowing rules into a reusable, cost-effective software solution. Led a team of auditors using the application on site. Assisted in the preparation of quarterly credit subsidy estimates.
• Helped to grow a nascent software practice into a steady revenue stream. Demonstrated the viability and cost effectiveness of software solutions across the economics and statistics practice.
• Developed an online survey of knowledge management practices. Instrumental in creating project timelines and budgets for a $20,000 web application. Coordinated features and site design with client and external contractors. Constructed reusable front-end and back-end components for data-driven web applications.

No Ink Inc.

Worked directly with clients to plan and design user-centered commercial web sites. Responsibilities included budgeting, gathering user requirements, interface design, and coding.

University of California, Berkeley

Course work in Quantitative Analysis, Document Engineering, Statistical Computing, and Marketing Research. Editor-in-chief of HaasWeek weekly print and online publication. Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Computers.

Northwestern University

Concentration in Computer Science, Statistics, and Econometrics.

HaasWeek Online: A case study

Wootton Alumni

Site design and content for my high school’s 10-year reunion. Simple sign-up and class directory implemented in PHP and MySQL.

Audible Pop

• Built a custom LAMP framework for storing, searching, displaying, and rocking out to interactive song lyrics and guitar chords
• Improved usability over existing sites by providing navigation by artist, album, and song as well as clickable chord diagrams
• Developed a reusable XML vocabulary for describing the relationship between lyrics and chords
• Enhanced navigability, search engine indexing, and forward compatibility with REST-style architecture and durable “cool” URLs

(X)HTML and CSS

Advanced experience designing interfaces using structural HTML and CSS. An intimate understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and workarounds. Evangelist for the separation of content from presentation and a move towards web standards. More than 10 years of building and maintaining stylishly simple web applications.

Java and J2EE

Four years of experience designing, building, and maintaining web-based J2EE applications, with an emphasis on application architecture and reusable design patterns. Extensive use of the Spring Framework for dependency management, data access, and MVC support. Current knowledge of leading libraries and open-source projects, such as Hibernate, ACEGI, Lucene, and Jetty. Experience with unit, integration, and performance testing methodologies and tools.

XML and related technologies

Six years of hands-on XML, XSLT, and XML Schema experience building content management and data exchange systems. Advanced usage of XSLT and XPath. Real-world experience with XML Schema and XML vocabulary design. Contracted by BEA Systems to conduct in-house training in XML technologies.

JavaScript and related UI frameworks

Extensive experience building non-intrusive JavaScript components using leading libraries, such as Prototype and Ext. Designed, built, and tested AJAX interfaces.

Flex and RIA technologies

Built reusable UI components for two Flex applications. Designed interactions with external services and built UI widgets. Extended charting and data analysis components to build rich visualization and summarization tools for high-volume data.

Excel

Extensive experience using Excel for data analysis, modeling, and massaging, including pivot tables, linear programming, and custom functions.