Jake Levine - product, technology, and cybersecurity
I have spent the last 25+ years building, launching, and managing software products. I have experience in startups and large corporations, both private, public, and nonprofit. 15 of those years were directly in product management, defining consumer and business facing products for companies like Myspace, Live Nation, AEG, and Idealab. I spent the last 7 years doing engineering management, devops, and full-stack software development with Ruby on Rails, React Native, and Swift for companies like Creatabu, Project Greenlight and Concon. Through various jobs, I was fortunate enough to get involved in several interesting patents
6,513,003 and
8,355,949. It is rumored that I once juggled rubber chickens in the desert near Area 51, but all other photo evidence has been classified. I was also one of the
nominees for
Best Ikea Hack of the Year 2010. I graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in Journalism.
I am currently consulting as
ONO LLC and would be happy to talk if you’re looking for someone to help with product management, technology, and/or cybersecurity.
And for fun, I went and grabbed the last known content from my myspace profile:
About Me
It’s always interesting to try to put these descriptions of yourself together. I think Octavia Butler hit it pretty well for me when describing herself as “…an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” I’ve liked that for a long time. Maybe that’s a lot of us, but that’s how I feel about myself…when i’m being honest. I think the rest is self-projection, the things I’d like you to think about me…and I’d rather just meet you for coffee, tea or bottle of colt 45 and see what you come out thinking.
Alan Watts as done by south park creators:
Who I’d Like To Meet
Bill Hicks, Alan Watts, Steve Mcqueen, Old Dirty Bastard and Jim Morrison…if I’m really lucky they’re all hanging out together sitting three tables away from the head table that is seating god and the devil and they’re all planning an elaborate food fight.
General
hillbilly rollercoasters, the smell of matches, cats, bats, and owls, beating the system, the fifth element, the grumman albatross, getting people to slow down and think, getting drivers to speed up and get out of my way, band names with the word ‘japan’ in them, ramen (real) and family heirlooms
Music
crystal castles, aphex twin, bjork, klaxons, solvent, hyper uk, u2, pet shop boys, the cure, freestylers, moby, anything with a synth basically…oh and the knife
Movies
human traffic, true romance, aliens, fletch, the whole nine yards, anything by luc besson
Television
arrested development, spaced, black books, scrubs, er, top gear
Books
anything by clive barker, sci fi, eastern philosophy
Heroes
cars, bill hicks, alan watts, clay shirky, the tick, my brother, magnum pierre and the unsung hero at work that fought for the grilled cheese