Rick Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Rick Jacobs is a Software Engineer at Progressive Insurance. He possess expertise in hardware, marketing, software. Colleagues describe him as "Rick's excellent reputation followed him from HP to Progressive Insurance. Having worked with him in both companies I can say with absolute certainty that he excels in a variety of environments. His development and test skills are praised by colleages and managers alike. He is absolute top talent and I'd hire him in a second" and "I worked with Rick as a co-lead in two different test organizations at Hewlett-Packard that did functional, performance, and system testing of disk array firmware and array management software. Rick consistently broke new ground for the organization, particularly in software test automation. This involved both developing new automation software and evangelizing the benefits of automation to the organization. The benefits of Rick’s work in process improvement and increased product quality were measurable and significant, leading to reduced numbers of defects, ability to test API-level interfaces where no testing had been occurring, many more tests per hour being run, and vastly increased visibility into product readiness through consistent, repeatable metrics. Rick transferred the skills needed to realize those benefits between two very different test organizations at HP, and also between companies, both before and after HP. I recommend Rick for any organization that wants to bring about significant improvement to their software development processes."

Listed skills include Hardware, Marketing, and Software.

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  Software Engineer

  Progressive Insurance

  Apr 2007 - Present