Jason R. Berlinsky

Work Experience

• Summer Intern at Olark

  Summer 2011

  Developed and maintained a codebase responsible for integrating Olark's live chat system with various customer relationship management solutions, including Salesforce.

• Technical Co-Founder at Thru.im

  Current since Mar 2011

  Developed and maintained an instant messaging routing engine with an accompanying REST API.

• Web Developer at CommonPlace USA

  Current since Nov 2010

  Worked with a small team to develop an innovative social network, centered around a user's interactions with his or her community.

• Database Developer at University of Michigan College of Engineering

  Current since Oct 2010

  Developed an employee records administration system based on the Oracle database engine and Java servlets.

Projects

• Plan It With Me

  http://www.planitwith.me/

  A social event planning system based around the concept of democratizing a centralized event model.

• rMeetup

  http://www.github.com/Jberlinsky/rmeetup

  A Ruby code library facilitating access to the Meetup.com API. Downloaded 132 times as of Mar 2011.

• File Search

  http://www.filesear.ch/

  A file-to-link search tool that allows users to find original sources for files on their hard drives.

Technical Skills

Awards

• Runner-up of the March 2011 Facebook Camp Hackathon Competition at the University of Michigan. In 24 hours, designed and developed a hardware device that interfaced with a computer to deliver ambient data to an event's Facebook page.
• Third-place winner of the February 2011 WolverineSoft 48-Hour Video Game Development Competition. In 48 hours, designed and developed a Flash-based video game.
• Winner of the December 2010 New York Times Open Hackday Competition in New York, NY. In 10 hours, developed a web application allowing users to make informed decisions about their plans for the evening, ag- gregating data from data sources such as Yelp, Foursquare and Twitter.
• Second-place winner of the November 2010 Yahoo Hack U Competition at the University of Michigan. In 24 hours, developed a location aggregator for social events around the University of Michigan campus.
• First-place winner of the October 2010 Morningstar Pro- gramming Competition at the University of Michigan. In two hours, implemented a statistical analysis system for a season of professional basketball.

Education