IT Entrepreneur and Consultant with experience in VOIP and Web Application Development
Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- Web Application Development at QsrSoft
- President & IT Consultant at Pennywell Corporation
- Past
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- Network Ops Consultant at White Henn Communications
- IT Management Consultant at Working Person's Store
- Co-Owner at BOOK'M Used Books
- Network Support Project Management at Concordia University Chicago
- Education
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- Valparaiso University
- Concordia University-River Forest
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Jonathan Penny’s Summary
My experience ranges from supporting medium LAN's to starting small businesses. My current interest is installing linux-based telephone systems. The benefits to consumers are enormous cost savings, flexibility, and ease of use.
Jonathan Penny’s Specialties:
Asterisk, VOIP, PBX, SIP, Linux, SQL
Jonathan Penny’s Experience
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Web Application Development
QsrSoft
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Development of PHP/MySQL Business Intelligence / ERP software for McDonald's restaurants.
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President & IT Consultant
Pennywell Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Database, telecom, and network design consultant for companies such as DePuy, Johnson & Johnson, K-mart stores, Winn Dixie, and Southeastern Data, a DOD contractor specializing in IT infrastructure.
Developed a voice as a software system in 2008 with PHP, MySQL, and asterisk that Integrated with Authorizenet CIM, Wholesale SIP provisioning, and Asterisk PBX -
Network Ops Consultant
White Henn Communications
(Computer Networking industry)
February 2008 — September 2008 (8 months)
Installed network and VOIP infrastructure for a telecommunications company with 15 employees. Deployed MS Windows and Exchange servers for their clients.
Installed network infrastructure and servers for an inventory management system for Depuy, Inc.
Extensive experience with Windows 2003 and Exchange server, Windows Mobile Devices, Microsoft Virtualization, and VmWare. -
IT Management Consultant
Working Person's Store
(Retail industry)
December 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Design, install, and support a LAN with nearly 100 PC's and 10 servers.
Design, install, and support an asterisk system using sip trunks for approx 30 lines and 70 stations. Designed custom call center management interface in PHP. Total cost savings for the project as opposed to other software solutions is approx $80K. Costs savings as opposed to non-software based pbx's is well into the $200K range. Call reliability and satisfaction of call center employees have vastly improved since the move as well.
Maintained 5 linux servers- three which are production servers powering workingperson.com, which has served as many as 20,000 unique visitors/day in peak season.
Duties also included planning for upgrades to hardware and telecommunications services, negotiating pricing with vendors, and managing an IT support staff.
I passed off full-time IT management to an in-house team, but continue to consult on a part time basis for network projects. -
Co-Owner
BOOK'M Used Books
(Retail industry)
January 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 5 months)
Developed the business plan, obtained funding, created an E-commerce website, and integrated it with shipping and payment services and MS Dynamics. Then made the mistake of opening a brick and mortar location in a semi-rural area with mostly high-end collectors items.
If anyone is looking for an E-commerce website focused on books- including feeds to services like Amazon, abebooks, and others, I would be happy to re-use my code. -
Network Support Project Management
Concordia University Chicago
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2001 — December 2003 (3 years )
Provided telecom, network, hardware, and software support for over 2000 users. Upgraded distribution network from 10/100 hubs to 10/100/1000 Cisco switches. Installed wiring and computers in a new lab.
