Jacob Harris

Work History

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  Senior Consultant, Product & Programs

  DataKind

  May 2023 - Present

  Orlando, Florida, United States · Remote

  Leading tech teams in support of social impact organizations through the development of data transformation tools. I collaborate with subject matter experts in data science, AI, statistics, and U.S. housing policy to deliver data-driven visualizations and insights.

• Freelance Software Developer

  Freelance

  June 2013 - Present

  • iOS App: Developing subscription-based iOS app that companies can quickly set up, brand, and release as their own. Responsible for schedule estimates, work plan development, and implementation of features based on client concept. Implemented a responsive, container-driven storyboard and a customized navigation with a slide-out sidebar. Wrote a data utility object to fetch live JSON data. Incorporated the delegation design pattern to move data between objects. Tools: Objective-C, iOS, Auto Layout, JSON, git
  
  • iOS App: Designed and engineered a feature-
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  Product Owner - Extensions & Enterprise

  Soundstripe

  March 2021 - March 2023

  Orlando, Florida, United States · Remote

  Owned product specification, release coordination and impact reporting for apps, extensions and integrations supporting music discovery and content creator workflows. Led scrum team of software and QA engineers, UX designers and engineering managers.
  
  Soundstripe Mobile App
  Shipped the company's first mobile app; owned the effort from research and validation and software engineering through App Store approval and go-to-market coordination; resulted in 13K unique customer sign-ins and 1M+ song plays in the first six months.
  
  Soundstripe Enterprise Plan
  Delivered a subscription plan for enterprise customers in collaboration with Sales and Engineering leaders; contributed to a 3x YoY increase in enterprise billings.
  
  Soundstripe API
  Identified a developer experience improvement opportunity in the API offering; specified a new platform product, pitched to senior leadership, garnered buy-in, led project team.
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  Product Manager

  Lifecycle Insights

  June 2020 - March 2021

  Orlando, Florida, United States · Remote

  Led a dev team; introduced agile workflow and software processes.
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  Technical Product Manager

  Trazi Ventures

  September 2019 - April 2020

  Orlando, Florida Area · On-site

  Managed a scrum team and agile events; analyzed and reported on competitive threats.
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  Software Consultant

  Freelance

  July 2013 - September 2019

  Orlando, Florida Area · Remote

  StickyGuide
  Built white-label iOS apps and deployed to retail clients via a purpose-built MDM pipeline. Swapped slow local builds for parallel cloud builds.
  
  D3 Studios
  Integrated Stripe Terminal with a suite of iOS apps for in-person ticket sales.
  
  Trumpet: Postcards to POTUS
  Built a mobile app and supporting payments API. Featured on ProductHunt.
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  Project Manager

  Matlock & Associates

  January 2017 - August 2017

  Orlando, Florida, United States · Remote

  Led a team developing web and iOS apps to manage the training, care and deployment of bomb-sniffing dogs.
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  Software Developer

  Method Studios

  March 2012 - June 2013

  • Worked in small, agile-development scrum teams. Sat on the 2D Council; helped author and implement facility-wide policies
  
  • Wrote a Python app for transcoding image sequences to QuickTime movies; featured GUI and command-line interfaces and a Python API with tools for sequence renumbering and render farm submission
  
  • Maintained and extended Nuke Snippets system featuring versioning, copying, and publishing mechanisms

  

  

  

  
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  Software Developer

  Method Studios

  June 2011 - June 2013

  Supported Nuke camera tracking and lens distortion tools; built pipeline apps to support image sequence ingestion and export.
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  Pipeline Technical Director

  Method Studios

  June 2011 - March 2012

  • Wrote tool that interfaced with Nuke’s native Python API to automate template and node creation for lens distortion pipeline
  
  • Expedited new show setup by configuring and maintaining
  in-house image representations for artists and coordinators
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  Nuke Compositor

  Method Studios

  March 2011 - June 2011

  Los Angeles, CA

  Vertical alignment, color correction and paint fixes on stereo film sequences; wrote software tools to assist in the process.
  
  Fright Night
  Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
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  Roto/Paint Artist

  Digital Domain

  January 2010 - March 2011

  Los Angeles, CA · On-site

  Built a Python tool to automate the creation of 2D tracked roto nodes from 3D cameras in Nuke.
  
  Real Steel
  Tron: Legacy

  

  

  
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  Roto Artist

  Luma Pictures

  June 2008 - January 2010

  Los Angeles, CA · On-site

  The Book of Eli
  Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
  A Serious Man
  X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
  The Ugly Truth
  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  Nutcracker: The Untold Story