About Me
Welcome!
I’m a product guy, engineer, and general tinkerer. I have a deep technical background, UX design experience, and a healthy combination of product design and professional software engineering skills. Check out my portfolio and feel free to get in touch.
- NAMEJeremy Handcock
- LOCATIONSeattle, Washington, USA
- E-MAILjeremy@aperte.org
Portfolio
Resume
Experience
Senior Software EngineerJan 2014 - Present
Simply Measured
Technical Product ManagerMar 2012 - Jan 2014
Medio
- Driving features from concept to launch for a mobile analytics product that provides tools for reporting and optimizing user acquisition, retention, and monetization.
- Defining product requirements, UI mockups, and guiding design/development for web UIs, data collection APIs, and data processing.
- Successfully launched major features such as app revenue analytics, targeted promotions, and data collection SDKs.
Software EngineerMar 2010 - Mar 2012
Medio
- Led server-side development of a consumer mobile product to aggregate daily deals from multiple providers: defined user scenarios and service requirements, implemented web service APIs, and implemented targeting algorithms to provide users with nearby deals matching their interests.
- Led development of a one-to-one marketing service that allows mobile operators to target customers with individualized offers; service is deployed at a large U.S. carrier and has been highly successful in increasing customer retention.
Software EngineerApr 2009 - Feb 2010
Institute for Systems Biology
- Designed, developed, and deployed a data mining system for associating human diseases with detectable proteins using a database of peer-reviewed biomedical literature.
- Publication: Jeremy Handcock, Eric W. Deutsch, and John Boyle. mspecLINE: bridging knowledge of human disease with the proteome. BMC Medical Genomics 2010, 3:7.
Graduate Research Scientist, Computer ScienceSep 2007 - Feb 2009
University of Toronto
- Conducted research in software engineering team awareness tools: designed, implemented, deployed, and evaluated a team awareness UI and directed an empirical user study.
Software Development EngineerAug 2005 - Aug 2007
Amazon.com
- Designed, implemented, deployed, and supported new product data processing system; decreased website product data update latency from one day to less than five minutes for Amazon’s worldwide retail business. Successfully migrated 50 million products to new system.
Software Engineer/InternMay 2003 - Jun 2005
Red Hat Canada
- Designed, developed, and supported Linux developer tool plug-ins for a large product based on the Eclipse IDE.
Software Engineer/Research AssistantMay 2002 - Sep 2002
University of Alberta
- Developed web-based research software for supercomputer systems under supervision of Dr. Paul Lu; funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada student research award.
Education
Human Centered Design & Engineering CoursesJan 2011 - Apr 2011
University of Washington
- Attended courses covering topics in user research, experience design, and product design process.
Master of Science, Computer ScienceSep 2007 - Feb 2009
University of Toronto
- Member of Software Engineering Research Lab. Maintained 3.9/4.0 coursework GPA.
- Teaching Assistant for undergraduate software engineering courses.