Courtney Guertin
Enjoys working with startups and developing web applications. Loves to travel and meet interesting people. Always learning. If there is a good concert in town you'll know where to find him.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Financial, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Travel |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, Databases, Django, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Facebook platform, Flash, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, PHP, Public speaking, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development, Windows applications |
| Next step: | Move to San Francisco to where all of the real action is. Learn from the best and then return the favor. |
| Location: | Minneapolis, MN |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company |
| Tags: | Art, Internet industry, investing, music, snowboarding, Travel |
| Schools: | University of Minnesota System - Twin Cities |
FULL BIO
Graduated from the University of Minnesota - Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Japanese. Worked as the lead developer at a couple of startups in the Twin Cities before starting his own company. Provides technology due diligence services for a private equity firm. Very passionate about new technologies and starting businesses.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Courtstarr, LLC |
| Position: | Founder and Technical Consultant |
| Time period: | November 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Provide a wide variety of services including web development, technical due diligence, and system architecture/design consulting. Customers include social networking sites, large health care companies, PR firms, and universities. Primary technologies include LAMP (PHP5 & Python). |
| Employer: | Benefit Resource, Inc. |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | June 2002 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Responsible for the full-lifecycle development, design, documentation, maintenance, security, marketing, and operating/support budget of the company’s proprietary web application and two data centers. Primary technologies included Java, XML, MySQL, Linux, Apache, and Tomcat. |
| Employer: | Archemedia, Inc. |
| Position: | Lead Developer |
| Time period: | January 2001 - June 2002 |
| Description: | Led a diverse team of engineers developing Java and MySQL/Oracle based applications for customers including Lucent Technologies, Epicor, Sistina/Red Hat, and The Collaborative. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Minnesota System - Twin Cities |
Courtney is Following (20)
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MobMov
A worldwide collection of car-powered drive-ins organized online. With hundreds of chapters across the world, the Mobile Movie is bringing back the forgotten joy of the great American drive-in. MobMovs are powered by cars and low-cost projectors.
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YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
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Chirp Interactive
Chirp is the creator of chirpscreen, your interactive friend channel that displays content (photos, messages, etc.) from your friends from social websites like Facebook, Flickr and Twitter via your screen saver.
Courtney's Contacts (7)
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Eric Kerr
19 year old in love with technology and startups. Moving to SF to play to take a stab at it myself.
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Sam Purtill
American, 19, working on YouNoodle
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Loc Ngo
A startup junkie. Cofounded Jowba.com We've recently launched jowba.com - A startup job site for startups. So committed, we'll forever be a startup.
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Alex Tew
British, 24, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage and co-founder of PopJam. Based in London.