Jon Rohan

Jon Rohan

Front End Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Past
  • Founder/Lead Developer at PownceMonkey.com
  • Associate Analyst at AT&T
  • UI/Javascript Developer at Global MailExpress Inc.
  • Web Developer Internship at Southwire Inc.
  • Student Research Assistant at University of West Georgia
Education
  • University of West Georgia
Connections
106 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Jon Rohan’s Summary

I am a highly motivated individual seeking a chance to make an impact with the major players of the tech industry. My number one priority is to learn. I can never learn enough.

Jon Rohan’s Specialties:

I have specialties in Javascript web development, AJAX, and Java web applications.


Jon Rohan’s Experience

  • Front End Engineer

    Ning

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 2009June 2009 (6 months)

    The product team at Ning was responsible for creating and developing new product features for Ning Social Networks. I was responsible for creating HTML/CSS mocks on an Apache PHP server for live mocks. I also was in charge of several Ning chat bar releases since March 2009, which is written using Adobe Flex.

  • Lead Front End Engineer

    Cake Financial

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    June 2008January 2009 (8 months)

    While at Cake Financial I was put in charge of maintaining the JavaScript, CSS, and Adobe Flex on the site. I began by working on streamlining the JavaScript library into objects and employing techniques for making the code scale (e.g. dynamic inlining, caching, minifying). I was also in charge of the CSS on the site and made similar efforts in scaling.

  • Pownce Desktop App

    Pownce

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    June 2008December 2008 (7 months)

    Contracted by the Pownce crew to work part time on updating their Adobe AIR Desktop client. The project is entirely written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS using AJAX techniques. For offline persistence the project also takes advantage of the SQLite database included in Adobe AIR.

  • Founder/Lead Developer

    PownceMonkey.com

    (Internet industry)

    March 2008June 2008 (4 months)

    Pownce Monkey is an Open Source Pownce Adobe AIR client

  • Associate Analyst

    AT&T

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

    June 2007June 2008 (1 year 1 month)

    Project LightSpeed (U-Verse) is the delivery of the VoIP, Enhanced Broadband and Switched Video Services to the Consumer Market. ISAAC (IP Service Assurance & Analysis of Connections) is a powerful troubleshooting tool developed specifically for LightSpeed support agents and technicians.
    My role in LightSpeed was to develop a set of utilities which will check, lock, and unlock a port. This was used by technicians on the phone who want to diagnose and solve minor problems with VoIP products.

  • UI/Javascript Developer

    Global MailExpress Inc.

    (Computer Software industry)

    December 2006June 2007 (7 months)

    Developed message based Ajax framework (OnJax) for Global Mail Express, Inc. internal and external web applications. Helped to automate business processes such as automated bar code label printing, package scanning and receiving, job scheduling and user management.

  • Web Developer Internship

    Southwire Inc.

    (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    May 2005December 2006 (1 year 8 months)

    Ensure consistent look and feel by promoting uniform fonts, formatting, icons, images, and layout; create templates to assist content authors. Identify, recommend, and prioritize new Web features and applications in conjunction with business leaders and department managers. Develop, code, install, test, debug, and document Web applications using appropriate editors.

  • Student Research Assistant

    University of West Georgia

    (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Research industry)

    October 2004July 2006 (1 year 10 months)

    Worked in the field of XML compression with Professor Daniel Rocco. Examined and Developed Techniques for executing XPath operations over compressed XML in Java. Developed computational, mathematical, and analytic approaches to research questions. Developing a WSDL/SOAP Engine using XPack to process requests. Assisted the principal investigator in preparing materials for reports, talks, and presentations on the research.


Jon Rohan’s Education

  • University of West Georgia

    B.S. , Computer Science , 20002006

    Activities and Societies:
    Sigma Nu, ACM

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Jon Rohan’s Interests:

new technology, reading, backpacking, hiking, snowboarding, swimming, biking, climbing, and most any outdoors activity.

Jon Rohan’s Groups:

ACM

Jon Rohan’s Honors:

H. Olin Jordan Memorial scholarship 2005-2006
Newnan Hospital Auxiliary scholarship 2005-2006
Vice President of University of West Georgia ACM Chapter 2005 - 2006
Competed in 2005 ACM Southeast USA Programming Contest
Member of the Delta Chapter of the CS Honor Society, Upsilon Pi Epsilon


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