Jon is Principal Architect and CEO of Digital Archtitects®. He is a high-energy, veteran inventor and executive with more than twenty-nine years experience in the software industry.

He is an economist by schooling, an executive through experience, and a technologist through passion, equally comfortable reviewing a Balance Sheet or legal contract as leading a source code or architecture review.

Jon has advised C-level executives, re-organized struggling delivery teams, and served on private Advisory and Corporate Boards.

Jon has architected software that has received numerous industry awards including six IBM Excellence Awards, two Sky-End Accounting Awards and three PC Magazine Editor's Choice Awards.

Jon has a long history of industry firsts in delivering business applications suites on next generation technology. As chief architect and lead technologist, some product achievements include:

• One of the first three accounting product suites for the IBM PC in 1981.
• One of the first two "network-generation" C product suites in 1986.
• The first accounting product suite on Windows 3.1, OS/2 2.0 and Windows NT (these products were part of the initial IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows NT rollouts) in the early 1990's.
• The first Java-based, integrated, "shrink-wrapped" accounting suite e-commerce products in 1998.
• First generation iPhone applications in 2008.
• Inventor on several currently pending patents, including one in software automation.

In 1999, Computers in Accounting Magazine referred to Jon as "a major programmer domo... responsible for more accounting software code than any other one person on the face of the earth."

During the past 15 years, he has led teams to deliver over 200 enterprise scoped projects to dozens of clients representing tens of millions of dollars in development budget and hundreds of millions of dollars in clients’ savings. Industry specialties have included a diverse range; including Software Publishing, Medical Systems, Magazine Publishing, Retail, Hospitality, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, and several others.

Jon has contributed to other high-profile products including IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Business Portal, and Microsoft Dynamics.

Jon is a former Alaskan outback guide and current PADI SCUBA Instructor, who when not building software can be found somewhere outside and probably in the water.