Jesse Strauss (née Schmal) is a storyboard artist who worked on Codename: Kids Next Door from Season 1 and into Season 6, including on Operation: Z.E.R.O.
He started out as a storyboard revisionist in Season 1, but worked his way up to storyboard artist by the start of Season 2. He worked as Kim Arndt's assistant. His name and likeliness was put into the series with the character Jesse Smalls and he even made a live-action appearance in Operation: A.M.I.S.H. as Doctor Time Space.
After the end of Codename: Kids Next Door, Jesse worked on the first season of "Superjail!" on Adult Swim and on several pilot for Cartoon Network. He worked alongside Kim Arndt again as storyboard artists on the PBS Kids show "WordWorld".