Jon has nearly 40 years of professional software development, with over 30 years of leading, growing, mentoring, encouraging and supporting software delivery teams to be successful.

Jon has experience in a variety of business domains, covering health, research and development, banking and finance, and the ever-present web enabled dual-sided marketplaces.

Jon is one of the original authors of BouncyCastle, the widely used Java Cryptography library, used in and with mobile devices, enterprise software and games.

Jon also designed the Toy Robot programming problem, and has been amazed how widely it has been used in workplaces, and how distant the evaluation criteria have become from the original intent.