Web Application Developer.

Portfolio

The following are examples of Jeremy's past work.

Thumbtack.com

Thumbtack (www.thumbtack.com) is a trusted marketplace where consumers can find, compare, and book local services. By making it easier, more affordable, and safer than ever before to find and book services, Thumbtack aims to transform a broad swath of the local service market as eBay and Amazon have done for products.

As cofounder of Thumbtack, Jeremy was responsible for the initial design and architecture, features, and infrastructure for thumbtack.com. Acting as project manager and lead developer, he led a team of five through three funding rounds, with the most recent round closing in June of 2010 for $1.2 million.

Notable Investors

Cyan Banister: Founder of Zivity
Scott Banister: Founder of IronPort; Former board member of Paypal
Vance Bjorn: Founder & CTO of DigitalPersona
Mark Britto: Founder & CEO of Boku; Former SVP of Worldwide Sales & Services of Amazon
Jason Calacanis: Founder of WebBlogs & Mahalo
Yan-David Erlich: Founder & CEO of ChoiceVendor
Scott Faber: Founder of Ingenio
Mark Goines: Former SVP of Consumer at Intuit; Former board member of Mint
Denis Grosz: Founder of Conjecture
Auren Hoffman: Founder & CEO of RapLeaf
Ali Partovi: Co-founder of LinkExchange, Co-founder of iLike
Hadi Partovi: Co-founder of Tellme Networks; GM of MSN.com at Microsoft
Ariel Poler: Founder of l/PRO, Topica and TextMarks
Joshua Schachter: Founder of Delicious

Jeremy led a team that developed the following:

  • an architecture to support over 40,000 service professionals and hundreds of thousands of pictures, videos, and contacts, with 600% yearly growth.
  • an admin site that provided statistics, data mining, communication, and workflow tools to marketing and customer service, including over 10 staff overseas.
  • an SEO strategy that resulted in a 300% increase in organic search traffic in the span of six months.
  • a social media campaign including Facebook connect, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
  • a mailing infrastructure supporting tens of thousands of daily e-mails.

NAW.org

Jeremy was brought in to improve the navigation and look of the website, improve efficiency on the back end, and simplify data entry to allow non-technical staff to update the website.

Specifically, Jeremy accomplished the following while on staff at NAW:

  • Project manager and lead developer for a ground-up redesign of NAW.org. Worked as liaison between a 10 person design committee and the design firm in a six-month architecture and design effort. Saved NAW more than $100,000 on software development costs.
  • Architect and sole programmer of the "AEC Resource Guide", a member-only information sharing application within the website to archive lists of speakers, consultants, hotels and other resources along with reviews for each type. Saved NAW more than $50,000 in development costs.
  • Architect and sole programmer for "Ask NAW", an application to allow executives of Wholesale-Distribution companies to ask questions to their non-competing peers anonymously. Members are divided into many categories and subcategories by subject as well as sales volume and position. Questions and answers are archived and searchable. Saved NAW more than $50,000 in development costs.
  • Wrote a email promotion generator to automate creation of item promotions. Reduced the time needed from days to minutes and reduced the number of staff necessary from 3 to 2, while eliminating any need for technical skills. Added automatic tagging for tracking. Dollar amount saved is unclear, but likely in the $10k+ range as technical staff are now freed up to work on other projects.
  • Replaced a desktop application for sending email newsletters to a custom PHP mailer utilizing spare bandwith and resources on the web server. Eliminated slow network performance and configuration issues and slow workstation performance related to sending 20k+ newsletters each week from staff workstations on the internal network. Likely saved 30 minutes of productivity per staff member per week.
  • Moved registration for all meetings to online forms and online payment. Previously, signup forms were faxed or mailed to members. Saved staff time to process and postage.
  • Moved four 75-question surveys to the web where results were stored in a database and automatically formatted for printing. Saved approximately 10 minutes per survey recipient in staff time (for hundreds of survey recipients) and $2,000 per survey round for professional layout and formatting.
  • Utilizing a SOAP connection to the Netforum AMS, automated membership lists, Ask NAW databases, and AEC Resource Guide databases. These are updated nightly using Cron scheduler. No staff time is needed any longer to manually update these databases. Estimated staff time saved is 30 or more hours per month.
  • Accomplished a "single sign-on" for all website features and applications resulting in improved usability for members. Added automatic password recovery which saves staff time from having to reset passwords.

Neighborhood Bands

Neighborhood Bands is a Facebook application for sharing your favorite local bands. Visit NeighborhoodBands.com for more information.

Rostr

Rostr is a membership, content, communication, and recruiting management application for small to medium organizations. Visit Rostr.org for more information.

SecureOurFuture.org

SecureOurFuture.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reforming Social Security. As Technology Director, I wrote a CMS, membership database, bulk emailer, blog, photo gallery, and recruitment software to support 10,000 members.

TaxReliefCoalition.org

TaxReliefCoalition.org was a very short notice, short term freelance project. Time from start to finish was 10 days, 8 of which were spent working with the client and designer on structure and aesthetic consideration. Site includes blog, membership list, and file repository with full administrative interface.

The Daily Beacon (dailybeacon.utk.edu)

I served as the Online Editor (really, web developer) for the University of Tennessee student newspaper, The Daily Beacon, for my last two years in undergrad. I designed and developed a custom CMS for the paper and created the HTML/CSS layout. As of February 2008, you can still see my work live on the website.

UTBookswap.com

This was my first website project way back in undergrad. I wish I still had it sitting around just for kicks. The basic idea was to provide a place for students to swap their books online...cutting out the bookstore. I think it would have really taken off if I had any money to market it.

You can check out an old (nonfunctional) version courtesy of the internet archive here: http://web.archive.org/web/20030524062208/http://utbookswap.com/

This segment is now pretty saturated.