The JumpBox Story

JumpBox was founded in July 2006 with the goal of making the deployment and management of server software dramatically easier. Our original goal was to build what we called the "Project Box" which was a drop in set of tools for managing multi-user software projects. We knew the tools already existed in the Open Source world, but the accessibility of the tools was limited by the difficulty of getting them installed. So we set out to solve that problem and along the way ended up building a general platform for delivering server based software in a dramatically easier fashion. Based on that platform, we've released a number of JumpBox bundled applications including the JumpBox for Trac software project management which fulfilled our original goal.

JumpBox is based in Tempe Arizona and was founded by Kimbro Staken and Sean Tierney.

Kimbro Staken - CEO

Kimbro Staken has 14 years experience as a technologist having served as CTO for Digiteer Inc, Infostreet Inc and The dbXML Group LLC. He is a leading innovator in virtualization technology and in a past life was involved in the creation of native XML database technology and the emerging concepts of micro-content publishing and structured blogging. He has been active in Open Source development for many years and is a co-founder of the XML:DB Initiative aimed at enabling interoperability between XML database systems, the Apache Software Foundation Xindice native XML database project and developed the Syncato micro-content management system. He also authors Virtualization Daily, a well subscribed blog tracking the development of virtualization and virtual appliance technology.

Sean Tierney - COO

Sean Tierney has 13 years of experience with web development having served in various technical capacities in both established and startup companies. Sean served as Lead Developer of iTool, Inc and CTO of Proscout, Inc during the dotcom boom. In 2002 Sean founded Lights Out Production LLC, a software consultancy under which he developed custom collaborative and commerce applications for Arizona companies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. Sean is a certified Innovation Games™ facilitator, a graduate of the Eugene Marion-Kauffman Foundation FastTrac Entrepreneurship course series and author for the Techdirt Insight Community. Read more from Sean on his blog ScrollinOnDubs.com.