End Point Team

Our team, headquartered in New York City, has developed, maintained, and hosted ecommerce and other web solutions since its founding in 1995. We combine web application development, database and hosting expertise with understanding clients’ objectives to excel in client satisfaction.

Jeff Boes

Jeff Boes

E-commerce developer and database architect

With End Point since: 2005
Location: St. Joseph, Michigan (Chicago, Illinois area)

“Jeff did an awesome job …” —Kameel Fayyad, Hydropool.com

Jeff has worked at a variety of companies from Fortune 100 to start-ups. He specializes in database engineering, with extensive experience in Perl and SQL. His most recent position prior to joining End Point was as Director of Software Development for an Internet start-up, developing a news searching and summarizing tool using Perl, PostgreSQL, RSS, and other web technologies.

Lead Developer and Database Administrator for Nexcerpt, Inc. from 2001–2005. Headed up development for an Internet start-up offering news searching products.

Consultant for Whirlpool from 1997–2000. Worked on Oracle database projects related to company logistics (e.g., product delivery tracking).

Database Developer for Zenith Data Systems from 1994–1996. Database development supporting a shop floor manufacturing tracking system.

Software Engineer for Digital Interface Systems from 1991–1994. Worked on numerous projects involving embedded systems and manufacturing control.

MS, Computer Science, University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1979.

BS, Computer Science, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1978.

Jeff was one of the first-ever Computer Science graduages from Hope College in Holland, Mich. He still lives in Michigan with his wife and two sons, the youngest of whom is attending Michigan State (go Spartans!). A frustrated Detroit Lions fan, Jeff’s idea of a really good time is inviting 30 of his closest friends for a weekend of board games, poker, food, and deep conversation.

Recent Blog Posts By Jeff Boes

Honor your elders (and others)

May 24, 2013

What an odd topic, you might be thinking. Some time ago, I began teaching my elders (who are rapidly becoming my contemporaries, curse you, Father Time) how to navigate the Internet. After almost two ... (Honor your elders (and others) cont.)

Lanyrd: Finding conferences for the busy or travel-weary developer

May 10, 2013

Recently I had planned to attend a nearby technical conference on a weekend, but my plans fell through. As a result, my supervisor encouraged me to find a replacement, but having been out of the "free ... (Lanyrd: Finding conferences for the busy or travel-weary developer cont.)

Google Sitemap rapid deployment

March 21, 2013

I was going to call this "Quick and Dirty Sitemaps", but "Rapid Deployment" sounds more buzz-word-worthy. This is how to get a Google sitemap up and running quickly, using the Google sitemap generator... (Google Sitemap rapid deployment cont.)

Crossed siting; or How to Debug iOS Flash issues with Chrome

February 19, 2013

This situation had all the elements of a programming war story: unfamiliar code, an absent author, a failure that only happens in production, and a platform inaccessible to the person in charge of fix... (Crossed siting; or How to Debug iOS Flash issues with Chrome cont.)

Git as rsync

February 14, 2013

I had a quick-and-dirty problem to solve recently: The clients had uploaded many assorted images to a development camp, but the .gitignore meant those updates were not picked up when we committed and ... (Git as rsync cont.)