Jordan A. Bortz
http://jordanbortz.com
San Diego, California
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OBJECTIVE
To provide excellent Technical Leadership, Architecture, and Development empowering Companies to achieve their timely success in the deployment of their Mission Critical Software.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Jordan is an Effective Leader as well as a noted Architect and Developer. Jordan has been an innovator in the software field for over 20 years.
Long before many people had heard of Object Oriented Programming, Jordan had already founded a company marketing one of the first, fully OO GUI Builders to a “Fortune 1000” list including Pac Bell, AMD, Mitsui Bank, General Dynamics and more.
Jordan’s leadership continued through many successful projects including high volume, multi-tier web projects, both B2C and C2C, for Oracle, Covad, Sun Microsystems, and many others.
Some of his recent projects include a high volume Flash Video transcoding chain using the On2 flash encoder and C# environment for a Venture backed online Video venture.
His focus for the past several years has been in the areas of C# and .NET, with an emphasis on Windows Forms and ASP.NET, as well as sophisticated Multimedia Audio and Video Applications, primarily utilizing C# but also C++ for performance as necessary.
Jordan is equally well versed in Architecture and Development as well as Analyses and Specification.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dec/92-
Present
Architect/Consultant/Team Lead – Jordan Bortz Consulting
Provided strong Technical Leadership, Architecture and Development to many organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Covad, AMD, Applied Materials, Creative Labs, Plantronics, and many others
Architected high volume, multi-tier Web and Web Service applications, scaling up to 500 million page views/week
Developed numerous Web and Windows Desktop applications, including applications utilizing advanced Audio DSP, Image, and Video Processing.
Assisted numerous companies to get back on track after a failing offshore development experience
Frequently was able to implement the mission critical components that other contractors had been unable to deliver
Numerous Framework Design Projects
Scalability and Performance enhancements
All recent work utilizes C#/Winforms/ASP.NET/Sql-Server and/or mySQL.
A sampling of Jordan’s client base includes:
Microsoft, Covad, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Wind River Systems, Applied Materials, and more.
Aug/89 – Dec/92
CEO, Lead Architect/Developer, Tigre Object Systems, Inc.
CEO and Chairman of 15 person software company
Raised Venture Capital from Angel Investors ($750,000)
Oversaw Sales/Marketing and R&D
Designed initial software and oversaw subsequent releases
Serviced Fortune 500 customers including Pac Bell, AMD, Mitsui Bank, General Dynamics, and many others.
Dec/84 – Aug/89
Consultant, Lead Architect/Developer, Jordan Bortz Consulting.
Developed OOP Garbage collector for proprietary C based OOP library
Developed first true dBase Compiler for Ashton-Tate
Developed first TIFF Decoder and Viewer for IBM PC
Developed dBase Tools for C Package
TECHNOLOGIES (Partial List)
Skill
Years
Skill
Years
Skill
Years
C#
7
ASP.Net 1.0-2.0
3
XML
7
Java
5
SQL-SERVER 200
7
XAML
<1
Smalltalk
15
mySql
5
WCF,
<1
SQL
10
DirectX/DirectShow
3
Silverlight
<1
OOP
20
Audio DSP
10
C
15
Architecture
20
Video Transcoding
2
C++
7
.NET 1.0-3.5
7
Image Processing
2
Linux/Unix/Solaris
20
ADO.Net
4
Remoting
2
Visual Studio
10
Windows Forms
7
Win32
10
Windows
12
PUBLICATIONS
Byte Magazine: Two LISP's for the IBM PC
Cincinnati Enquirer: Computer Security
EDUCATION:
Carnegie-Mellon University
Xavier University