User:Sportskido8

Jared Heath Lerner (born May 31, 1985, in Queens, New York and currently residing in Manhattan) is an American sports nut and programmer, with degrees from Washington University in St. Louis (Computer Science/Accounting) and New York University (MBA). Despite Jared's birthplace, he is not a fan of the New York Mets, but rather, a diehard Yankees fan. He is also an avid supporter of the New York Giants, the New York Knicks and New Jersey Devils, and would love to meet future hall of fame goaltender Martin Brodeur and future hall of fame quarterback Eli Manning some day. Jared's favorite sport (and fantasy sport) is baseball, although most of his contributions on Wikipedia have been done to hockey articles.

From September 2007 to October 2008, Jared worked as a software engineer for Sungard Data Systems near the Wall Street area of Manhattan. He then joined Confirmit Inc. as a Professional Services Consultant, and helped pave the way for the Norwegian analytics firm by closing over 5,000 support tickets in his 6+ year tenure there. In 2016, Jared joined artificial intelligence and computer vision startup Clarifai, where he built out the entire Support Engineering department from the ground up and ran it by himself for three and a half years. He also led the company's world-renowned Cheer Enforcement Task Force to help enhance the company's culture and morale, and successfully oversaw two heralded company-wide Olympics competitions in 2018 and 2019. Jared began his first foray into the advertising world by joining Ad-Tech startup TripleLift in August 2019, where he resolved many complex platform issues and wrote a plethora of Python scripts while also mentoring many Junior team members. He started his current role as Head of Support at fintech startup CorpAxe in November 2020, and continues to oversee the performance of the entire Support organization and help drive improvements with engineering, product and business teams to make the platform as awesome as possible.

In his spare time, Jared enjoys playing with his chunky Domestic Short Haired cat Juliet, karaoke, traveling to crazy places and drumming.

= Wiki History = Jared joined Wikipedia in August 2006 while he was doing an internship at the auditing bureau of the New York City Comptroller's office. He was very bored one day and luckily, Wikipedia was not one of the websites blocked on his personal computer. Since then he has worked on a bunch of sports articles. He is always editing some article or another to try and get it featured (or GA first, of course). Much to his delight, the New Jersey Devils were recently featured on the front page on June 30, 2007, the 25th anniversary of their team's naming. Jared then got goaltender Martin Brodeur on the front page twice, most recently on May 6, 2012.

Articles that Jared has worked extensively on

 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] New Jersey Devils


 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Martin Brodeur


 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Dominik Hašek


 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]] Joe Sakic


 * Scott Stevens


 * New York Yankees


 * Montreal Canadiens


 * Federer–Nadal rivalry

Articles that Jared has started up

 * Bleacher Creatures


 * Clarifai


 * Denis Brodeur


 * Damien Cox


 * Jim Kelley


 * Montreal Canadiens notable players and award winners


 * New Jersey Devils notable players and award winners


 * New York Yankees season records


 * Perry Anderson (hockey)

Passed

 * 1) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Toyota Center (Houston) 26 March 2009 (review)
 * 2) [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Federer-Nadal rivalry 24 March 2009 (review)

Failed

 * 1) [[image:symbol oppose vote.svg|15px]] Cleveland Indians (reviewed version) 11 March 2008 (review)

Current Tasks

 * Help Clarifai get their article on the site


 * Clean up the Yankees' main article so that it attains GA-status


 * Get the Scott Stevens article to FA status


 * Get the Bleacher Creatures article to GA, and then FA status

=Barnstars=

= Favorites =


 * Movies: Rounders, Kingpin, Scarface, Reservoir Dogs, Major League (all of them)


 * Athlete: Eli Manning, Martin Brodeur, Aaron Judge


 * Bands: Foo Fighters, The Killers, Nirvana, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Offspring


 * Beers: Anything but IPA


 * TV Shows: Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office


 * Books: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Moneyball by Michael Lewis, Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull


 * Foods: Thai, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, Italian, American (in that order)