Jonathan Bannon Maher

Jonathan Bannon Maher

Founder & C.E.O. at SICK AWAY FROM HOME

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Founder & C.E.O. at SICK AWAY FROM HOME
  • Author at Amazon.com
  • Musician at iTunes.com
Past
  • Technology & Portfolio Management at Investment Manager
  • Founder & C.E.O. at Host1
  • Consultant at Bear Stearns
  • Consultant at Deutsche Bank
  • Consultant at Toys R Us Corporate
  • Consultant at Merck Medco Managed Healthcare
  • Consultant at Volvo Corporate
  • Intern at Robb, Peck, McCooey, New York Stock Exchange
Education
  • University of San Diego
  • Ridgewood Public High School
Connections
37 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Jonathan Bannon Maher’s Summary

Creative, hard working, high-integrity, independent thinker with proven leadership, strategy, client relationship, analysis, teamwork and communication skills. Experience with complex financial instruments including fixed-income credit and interest rate derivatives. Written software since age 8 and called “extremely gifted as a computer programmer” by a prominent financial software entrepreneur.

Jonathan Bannon Maher’s Specialties:

J2EE (Java, JSP, JDBC, Servlets, EJB, XML, SOAP, XPath), SQL (Oracle Certified 8i Pl/SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Access), VS.Net (C#, C++, ASP, VB), PHP, AJAX (JavaScript, DHTML, XML), Flash ActionScript, CSS, C, Shell (Sun Solaris, Redhat), networking & security, Excel, PolyPaths, Intex DealMaker, Bloomberg.


Jonathan Bannon Maher’s Experience

  • Founder & C.E.O.

    SICK AWAY FROM HOME

    (Internet industry)

    October 2007Present (2 years 2 months)

    http://www.sickawayfromhome.com/

  • Author

    Amazon.com

    (Public Company; Publishing industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 11 months)

    Wrote & published "Grow a Winning Business" (Age 25), a 216 page book covering topics including leadership, teamwork, strategy, negotiation, hiring, ethics, sales, marketing, publicity, patents, copyrights, trademarks and contracts available on Amazon.com.

  • Musician

    iTunes.com

    (Music industry)

    January 2007Present (2 years 11 months)

    Wrote, recorded & published an acoustic rock song on Apple's iTunes music service which was named a "Potential Soundtrack" and "Best Love Song" by garageband.com.

  • Technology & Portfolio Management

    Investment Manager

    (Financial Services industry)

    December 2005December 2006 (1 year 1 month)

    Led development of a fixed-income derivatives trading platform used to purchase, trade, provide surveillance and investor reporting for the first 7.7 billion dollars in assets under management at a start-up of approximately 15 people. Worked with team to evaluate potential investments, reverse engineer and price bonds, and execute/settle trades. Responsible for day-to-day technology needs of firm.

  • Founder & C.E.O.

    Host1

    (Internet industry)

    June 1993December 2005 (12 years 7 months)

    http://www.host1.com/

    Provided sales support to prospective customers through instant messenger, email and phone. Created a Windows desktop application that allowed clients to manager their Linux server account. Created a support ticket system that allowed requests to be fulfilled 24 hours a day by contractors in Asia. Projected exchange rate paths over the upcoming 12-18 months to offer clients the ability to pay in their native currency at a fixed monthly rate. Provided the ability to order services in 11 languages. Designed advertisements, setup advertising campaigns, and tracked performance.

  • Consultant

    Bear Stearns

    (Public Company; BSC; Financial Services industry)

    August 2004August 2004 (1 month)

    Assistant to a Member of the Board of Directors.

  • Consultant

    Deutsche Bank

    (Public Company; DB; Banking industry)

    June 2004July 2004 (2 months)

    Collected investment strategy information from prospective clients across Europe though cold calls from a pre-screened list for Hedge Fund Capital Group. Brought together about 50 people from sales and support on a single customer relationship management system.

  • Consultant

    Toys R Us Corporate

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOY; Retail industry)

    June 2003August 2003 (3 months)

    Created a real-time profit & loss statement comparing the performance of a start-up boutique unit against parent using an Oracle database shared by all retail stores.

  • Consultant

    Merck Medco Managed Healthcare

    (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    June 2001August 2001 (3 months)

    Helped design a 10 question survey which was mailed to approximately 10 thousand doctors to evaluate their attitude toward the prescription of generic drug alternatives, and then developed a database to aggregate and summarize results. Created a database for the marketing department used to track expenditures by campaign and generate performance reports using ratios provided by management. Created a database for the customer service department to track and categorize complaints, priorities outstanding issues, and identify problem areas by category.

  • Consultant

    Volvo Corporate

    (Automotive industry)

    December 2000January 2001 (2 months)

    Created a web based application to search internal educational media library.

  • Intern

    Robb, Peck, McCooey, New York Stock Exchange

    (Financial Services industry)

    July 1999August 1999 (2 months)

    Hand wrote tickets on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for trades over 100 shares.


Jonathan Bannon Maher’s Education

  • University of San Diego

    Bachelors of Business Administration , 19992005

    Activities and Societies:
    Sigma Chi, Pride (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender student organization), Delta Lambda Phi
  • Ridgewood Public High School

    19941999


Additional Information

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Jonathan Bannon Maher’s Interests:

Snowboarding, scuba diving, jui-jitsu, kickboxing, guitar, reading excessively.

Jonathan Bannon Maher’s Groups:

http://www.maherfound.org/

  •    Human Rights Campaign

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