Jonathan Andrew Wolter

Current

• Application Developer at ThoughtWorks
• CEO at Second Valley, Inc.

Past

• Engineer at FeedBurner.com (acquired by Google)
• Real Estate Investment Trainer (Sole Proprietorship)
• Developer at Technology Services Group

• NASA Microgravity "Vomit Comet" Research at Purdue University & NASA
• Humana Software Training Intern at Humana Inc
• Purdue University Resident Assistant at Purdue University

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Education

• Purdue University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• Tech and Entrepreneur Events
• QuickBooks Landlord Accounting

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Summary

I build things. I'm very enthusiastic.



I'm a consultant at ThoughtWorks, which is positively the bee's knees.

I was part of FeedBurner, building out their advertising serving engine and other exciting applications. It was a great experience working on the core engineering team that led to a successful acquisition by Google.

Formerly I was in consulting as a web application developer of custom enterprise content management solutions. Clients were primarily Fortune 500 companies.

I rather enjoy side projects, some recent ones are Second Valley, Inc and LandlordAccounting.com: the premiere training site for correctly using QuickBooks for real estate investing. I purchased investment property when I was 19, before getting hooked with this Internet thing. Someday I would like to dance competitively.

Founder of TechSocial.com, Chicago's Entrepreneurial and High Tech event calendar. Always interested in meeting with entrepreneurs and idea people.

I play a not-so-wicked game of ultimate frisbee, and can't get enough of swing dancing.

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Specialties:

Experience and such: Java, Python, Django, Ruby, Rails, test driven development, agile methodologies, coaching, more Java, jsp, MySQL, SQL, XSL, XSLT, html, css, Apache Tomcat, php, Javascript, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Documentum WDK, web services. EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management consulting. Wiki Knowledge Management Repository design, implementation and administration on LAMP platform.

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Experience

• Application Developer

  ThoughtWorks

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Agile web application developer, with focus on Ruby and Java applications.

• CEO

  Second Valley, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  I run a training and publishing company that helps landlords increase profitability and track metrics on their business: LandlordAccounting.com

• Engineer

  FeedBurner.com (acquired by Google)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

  Software engineer at FeedBurner, building applications with a focus on revenue generation. Member of the the core Ad Serving team which served millions of ads for millions of customers and thousands of advertisers daily. Successfully acquired by Google.

• Real Estate Investment Trainer

  Sole Proprietorship

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Real Estate industry)

  June 2002 — April 2007 (4 years 11 months)

  * Purchased, rehabbed and rented as sole owner residential investment property when 19 years old.
  * Earned 16% yearly return on investment.
  * Trained HomePlace, LLC owner in QuickBooks computer accounting program to fully replace previous bookkeeping system.
  * Launched LandlordAccounting.com online business for training investors in QuickBooks.

• Developer

  Technology Services Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Java, jsp, servlets, javascript and html software developer.
  Intermediate CSS and graphics/design creative work.
  Creating customized MediaWiki WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, php) Wiki Knowledge Base.
  EMC Documentum DFC, DQL, WDK, and Webtop development on a daily basis.
  Technology Services Group provides consulting solutions for innovative document and content management applications. We are a Documentum Partner, as well as an Alfresco (open source enterprise content management) early adopter consultancy.

• NASA Microgravity "Vomit Comet" Research

  Purdue University & NASA

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  August 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 3 months)

  * Research performed during Junior and Senior Years at Purdue.
  * Persuaded the dean of Industrial Engineering into contributing $1000 of funding.
  * Responsible for construction of one tactor-vest controller circuitry.
  * Investigated the perceptual effects and cognitive load of tactor stimuli in zero gravity.
  * Engaged in school youth and community outreach presentations and education.
  * Developed outreach website and promotional video (a must see click the video tab!) http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/HIRL/projects/nasa2003_iflyvomitcomet/index.htm
  * Publication: Anu Bhargava, Michael Scott, Ryan Traylor, Roy Chung, Kimberly Mrozek, Jonathan Wolter, and Hong Z. Tan, "Effect of cognitive load on tactor location identification in zero-g," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 56-62, Mar. 18-20, 2005.

• Humana Software Training Intern

  Humana Inc

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HUM; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

  * Designed and wrote the training manual for a $6,000,000, three terabyte insurance member data visualization tool.
  * Planned, collaborated and deployed the software’s integrated help content.

• Purdue University Resident Assistant

  Purdue University

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Human Resources industry)

  August 2003 — May 2004 (10 months)

  * Created operation manual to delegate responsibility among Senators, Athletic Directors, a Programming Director and a Publicity and Social Director.
  * Developed and supported educational and social programs for 50 residents.

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Education

• Purdue University

  Bachelor Science, Industrial Engineering, 2001 — 2005

  3.6/4.0 GPA

  Activities and Societies:

  Purdue, Pugwash, (International organization promoting Social Responsibility in Science and Technology) -, President 2004-2005,
  NASA, "Vomit Comet", research, Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunity Program, Performed microgravity research, obtained funding, worked in team, results published at, World Haptics Conference, - 2003-2004,
  
  Resident Assistant, - 2004-2004

Additional Information

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Websites:

• Tech and Entrepreneur Events
• QuickBooks Landlord Accounting

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Interests:

Elegant code, business, economics, sales, microfinance, emerging markets, fitness, vegetarian

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Groups:

Purdue Alumni Association, Free Geek, IIE, Student Pugwash USA, PHP Users Group, TECHCocktail

•    Purdue University Network
•    Zero-G-nauts

Jonathan Andrew Wolter’s Honors:

TenThousandSmiles founder and visionary, created 14,000 smiles in a day (2003)
International Science and Engineering Fair 4th Place Grand Award Engineering (1999)
Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout

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