Jared Olhoft

Vice President of Engineering

CollaborationAi

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)

Working to harness untapped networks and knowledge to enable intelligent collaboration that delivers meaningful impact. We take an unconventional approach to software and services, powered by novel technologies and agile methods. And we choose to work with like-minded customers who are true co-innovators.

VP of Product & Engineering

beBright

Oct 2022 - Jan 2025 (2 years 4 months)

Chief Information Technology Officer

beBright

Oct 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 7 months)

Founding C-Suite Executive responsible for IT, Product, and Business Intelligence functions, leading rapid growth and digital transformation in a PE-owned dental services organization that scaled quickly through acquisitive growth.

Vice President Of Engineering

Yardstik

Sep 2020 - Sep 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Executive leading Technology, Product & Engineering functions, reporting directly to CEO. Drove early-stage transformation through strategic process implementation, business development, and cultivation of high-performance culture. • Architected and delivered a product-focused SaaS platform suite for the Human Security and Safety Industry, combining usage-based and subscription-based models. • Implemented comprehensive SDLC, PDLC, and InfoSec Program, establishing robust operational frameworks. • Scaled Tech org from a few people to multiple teams and specialties, navigating growth from Seed through Series A funding. • Served as Chief Architect, leveraging deep software expertise to define standards and best practices across the engineering

Director Of Information Technology

Bluestem Brands Inc

Feb 2020 - Sep 2020 (8 months)

Director of the Engineering Success Group at Bluestem Brands. Lead the team from idea to its formation. Our high-performance team is creating products and processes in the developer experience, SRE, and DevOps spaces to enable our engineering organization to build and operate complex software systems successfully.

Principal Engineer & Architect

Bluestem Brands Inc

Jan 2017 - Feb 2020 (3 years 2 months)

Served in a leadership role (Principal of Principals) over the Customer Experience Group, significantly influencing the engineering, IT, and product teams throughout the Enterprise. Key Results: • Lead up to 12 scrum teams in architecture & design, software engineering leadership, and through reference-implementations demonstrating technical strategy and destination technology choices • Created the Principals & Leads engineering cohort driving grassroots efforts toward engineering leadership, best practices, and cross enterprise information coordination • Designed and lead the implementation of IVR modernization plans across all brands leading to hundreds of thousands in vendor savings.

Principal Software Engineer

Bluestem Brands Inc

Jul 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 7 months)

I led software architecture and the development teams for Paycheck Direct one of Bluestem's 15 retail brands. Key Results: • Drove software design and architecture for $1.6 million capital project to create core domain platform to scale and grow successful business proof of concept. • Lead architecture and development of fixed installment loan platform replacing fragile and inaccurate third party revolving credit platform. • Modernized software engineering practices and macro patterns that took root throughout the entire enterprise though advocacy and leading by example.

Developer

Room Board

Jun 2014 - Jun 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Focused on writing java applications using a variety of Spring Framework libraries. Some of the projects developed were a Spring Boot javascript pre-rendering microservice utilizing JDK 8 Nashorn engine. Other highlights included introducing Spring Batch to convert a variety of scheduled processes in order to provide better management and visibility of job executions. Led the development efforts to rewrite the Cart-Checkout process to follow RESTful principals and provide services that could be consumed by clients across various technologies. Primary frameworks introduced during the project were Spring Boot, Spring Session and a Redis Cache layer.

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Founder

Coin Craze Technologies

Feb 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 11 months)

Founder of a tech startup and consulting for blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused software (Bitcoin, ARCHCoin, and various other alternative digital currencies) • Mentored and taught new developers in the creation of opensource java libraries. • Contributed Exchange API integrations to opensource java library. • Developed and maintained high-performance specialized computer mining machines. Projects CTO and Product Architect for blocktrust.org - Tech startup offering crypto project certification, crowdfunding, and incentives platform • Founding member of 6 people internationally distributed startup team. • Lead brainstorms and client research to develop product vision, roadmap, and backlog. • Created a web-based software platform and clou

Lead Java Developer

Prime Therapeutics

Nov 2011 - May 2014 (2 years 7 months)

Initially a contracted Software Engineer for client Prime Therapeutics. Worked on two phases of a large software project. The first phase involved migrations of portions of a client application from .NET technologies to GWT client-server based architecture. The second phase is a ground-up rewrite of the existing system using enterprise java technologies and patterns. Frameworks included: Spring, Hibernate, GWT and other technologies. Second Phase: Worked as a Lead Java Developer on enterprise java project using Spring, Hibernate, GWT, GridGain, and other technologies for Prime Therapeutics. Focused on full-stack development utilizing a comprehensive front end for contract management and rule configurations and back end grid-based distribut

Software Engineer

McKesson Provider Technologies

Feb 2009 - Nov 2011 (2 years 10 months)

Large scale multi-phase project. First phase was the development of a windows rich client utilizing WPF and proprietary middle tier frameworks for medical lab related software. The second phase was continued expansion of the WPF client while developing and integrating new application modules using GWT client infrastructure and open source Java technologies.

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Programmer Analyst

Northwest Title

Aug 2007 - Jan 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Developed and maintained a variety of software, B2B integration's, and web applications with a range of technologies including: .NET with C#, Java, XML/XSL/XSLT, Fiorano.

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IT Tech

Northwest Title

Oct 2005 - Aug 2007 (1 year 11 months)

This position was a heavily multitasked IT Tech. In this role I was able to get experience with a wide variety of systems and technologies. One of the most beneficial aspects of my role was learning to quickly adapt to changing technical requirements successfully with minimal guidance.

US Marine

USMC

Oct 2001 - Nov 2005 (4 years 2 months)

Served in the US Marines for a four year active duty contract. Filled a variety of roles during my time at duty stations from Okinawa Japan to North Carolina to Fallujah Iraq. Highlights of service included • Accelerated meritorious promotions though boards and superior performance • Awarded the Navy Achievement Medal for superior performance of duties • Acted as Disbursing Office Systems Administrator, Internal Controls/Systems & Ops Supervisor • Consistently lead by example • Frequently mentored subordinates and peers

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