JONATHAN DAVID NOLEN
2900 22nd Street #2 - San Francisco, CA 94110 - cell: 805.895.2794
jonathan@jnolen.com

Experienced technical leader with a proven track-record taking new products from concept to completion. Persuasive communicator able to bridge the divide between product-management and engineering to deliver high quality software under tight deadlines.

Director of Developer Relations, Atlassian Software, September 2005 - Present
http://www.atlassian.com

• Created the Atlassian Developer Network.
• Increased the number of community-contributed extensions four-fold.
• Oversaw the introduction of third-party commercial plugins.
• Managed a team of internal developers in San Francisco to creating new functionality for Atlassian products.
• Represented the external developer communities concerns with Atlassian.
• Open-sourced portions of Atlassian's products for community development.
• Created a project infrastructure (SVN, bugtracking, wiki) to host community development and collaboration.

J2EE Developer, j2 Global Communications, February 2002 - September 2005
http://www.efax.com, http://www.j2global.com, et al.

• Founding member of j2's Java development team. Rebuilt from the ground up j2's web applications which support 200,000 visitors/day and are responsible for $100MM annually in revenue.
• Designed an innovative presentation layer that dynamically generates JSPs from XML and XSL. It sped development by enforcing a strict separation of content, presentation and code. Presented at JavaOne 2003.
• Localized eFax for multiple languages and locales.
• Moved j2's websites towards standards compliance.
• Developed the J2EE backend using a Struts-like custom framework.
• Introduced the Extreme Programming development methodology to j2.
• Designed the team's development process. Introduced new tools for bug tracking, source control, collaboration and continuous integration and testing.

Founder, Ants.com, July 1999 - September 2001
http://www.ants.com -- no longer active

• Grew Ants.com from three founders to a staff of thirty. Ants.com secured three rounds of venture capital and achieved a valuation of $11MM.
• Designed, developed and released two major products for Ants.com, used by hundreds of thousands of customers:
  Scout (released Jan. 2001) -- client/server software & website that allowed automatic addressbook syncing. Scout received a 4/5 star review from PC Magazine and was featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes and Time.
  Farm (released Jan. 2000) -- an online freelance marketplace. Farm received positive reviews from The New York Times, USA Today and Red Herring.
• Designed user interface for both products, directing both internal and external designers.
• Hired and coordinated development staff of nine.
• Managed three external contract development teams.
• Built the websites for both products (HTML, CSS, JSPs & Javascript).
• Implemented version control and defect-tracking for the development team.
• Supervised internal QA process for Ants.com products.

Presenter, JavaOne 2003, San Francisco

• Automating JSP Generation: A new method to disconnect Logic, Presentation, and Content using JSP Technology, XML, and XSLT

Guest Lecturer, Samford University, Spring and Fall, 1999

Web Design & Development
Intimate knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, XSLT and graphic production.
Skilled with JSPs, Java J2EE, SQL, CVS.

Graphic Design Software
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Pagemaker, Acrobat, ImageReady, QuarkXPress, Fireworks, Freehand

Platforms
Extremely proficient with MacOS X.
Skilled with Unix and Windows.

Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
B.A. in English Literature
Minor in Religious Studies
Graduated May 1998, Cum Laude
ODK, Mortar Board, STD, Order of Omega Honoraries

JONATHAN DAVID NOLEN
2900 22nd Street #2 - San Francisco, CA 94110 - cell: 805.895.2794
jonathan@jnolen.com