Jay Severson Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca

Wanting to bring the awesome game of Catan to your pocket. Play anytime, anywhere, with your friends and family, in a play n pass words with friends format. Most of our users have dozens of simultaneous games going and it only takes a few minutes to take your turn. No waiting around watching other people take their turns or waiting for trade proposals. Better, faster, more modern and convenient way to play Catan for people who rarely have time for a 3 hour game night.

San Jose, Ca

Founded Nutty Putty, LLC. Nutty Putty develops mobile games apps for iOS and Android.Landover, a Catan style strategy gameParty Mafia, mafia on mobileWizeCrack, adult Q&A humorWordLinks, word association multiplayer game

- Created & prioritized product road map - Researched languages and frameworks best suited for the company. Formalized tech stack and engineering best practices and procedures- Developed website using: PHP, QCodo MVC Framework, Sphinx, Apache & Nginx, Javascript, MySQL, Memcache- Enhanced code & database architecture to handle massive growth over the next few years- Hired & managed a remote world wide team of ~15 engineers- Scaled the application to deal with large data sets and high volumes of traffic

· Organized and administered several online gaming tournaments with live final events. This included building a tournament site to house brackets, schedules, rules, registrations, leaderboards, etc. Also built a back-end administration toolkit for handling large volumes of support tickets, game adjudication, reporting, etc. In tournament involved a large amount of coordination between myself, the design firm, the sponors (Remington, Nokia, Pontiac, Dodge, XBox, NCAA, NBA, NFL, etc), and the game development company, 2K Sports. Prizes have included new cars and money prizes of up to $10,000.Tournaments and websites include: - 2004 Remington Titanium ESPN NFL 2K5 Bowl - Nokia NBA 2K5 Championships - NBA 2K6 All Stars (http://nba2k6allstar.2ksports.com) - Pontiac Virtual Final 4 2006 (http://virtualfinal4_06.2ksports.com) - NHL 2K7 All Stars (http://nhl2k7allstar.2ksports.com) - Pontiac Virtual Final 4 2007 (http://virtualfinal4.2ksports.com)

Technologies/Languages: Oracle10g, PHP 5.x, MySQL, Perl, HTML, CSS, Javascript· Lead developer and database architect for the Web Builder product that allows realtors and brokers to purchase and customize their own personalized web sites. (http://www.myers.com/realestate/features.html) · Maintained and improved feature set on LoanApp.com, an online loan application system collecting and delivering leads to Myers various lenders. · Responsible for general architecture and development of a new web-based order entry, tracking, and fulfillment system using PHP and Oracle 8i. · Integration of Oracle Financials with existing Myers accounting processes. Worked in a development team with nine other engineers where CVS source control was strictly enforced. All development underwent rigorous quality assurance testing through independent Q.A. personel.

· Worked directly with founder and president of Wholesale Chess to build a proprietary ecommerce business solution using PHP and MySQL. · Custom shopping cart solution integrated with UPS and US Postal shipping APIs. · Robust backend toolkit to manage products, prices, mailings, web site organization, Froogle.com integration, search engine optimization, order processing, sales reports, etc. - Website now has on average 4000 orders a month and is the #1 provider of chess equipment online with well over one million in sales each year.

· Responsible for the entire front-end design and back-end development of a scalable automated tournament system now hosting well over 200,000 tournaments a month. · Designed Internet secure software and developed a user-friendly Web-based toolkit using PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS with MySQL databases. · Developed Cron scripts using Perl to maintain flat file databases and report Website statistics. Used CVS version control software. · Planned and carried out a Descent 3 tournament with Interplay in Las Vegas, where first place received $50,000. · Increased company revenue by 85%.

Computer Science, Math Minor

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