A Brief History of Jon

1979	Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, US Started living in Hopatcong, NJ
1984	Started attending Durban Avenue School
1986	Got an Apple IIgs
1991	Moved to Great Meadows, NJ Started attending Liberty Township School
1994	Graduated from Liberty Township School Started attending Hackettstown High School
1995	Worked as an arcade attendant at the Land of Make Believe Became a Telegard for OS/2 beta site
1996	Earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America Backpacked through Philmont Scout Ranch Worked as an arcade attendant at the Land of Make Believe
1997	Started working as a system administrator for InterPow Internet Services Worked as a tour guide at Waterloo Village
1998	Graduated from Hackettstown High School Started attending the Rochester Institute of Technology Became a member of Computer Science House Started contributing to The Horde Project
1999	Worked at Telcordia Technologies' Applied Research division (formerly Bellcore)
2000	Helped found a doomed Internet startup in Honolulu, Hawaii Started contributing to the PHP Project
2001	Worked as a software engineer for SuSE Graduated wth Highest Honors from RIT with a degree in Information Technology Contributed to Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL Spoke as part of the PHP track at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention Entered the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University Spoke at the 2001 International PHP Conference in Franfurt, Germany
2002	Co-authored Professional PHP4 Programming Worked at Maxis as a software engineer on The Sims Online Spoke at the 2002 International PHP Conference in Franfurt, Germany
2003	Moved to Walnut Creek, CA Started working full-time at Maxis (Electronics Arts) Published an article on my Python in PHP extension in the 02.2003 issue of PHP Magazine Transfered to EA Online Publishing in Redwood Shores, CA Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Masters of Entertainment Technology Moved to Nob Hill in San Francisco, CA Shipped The Sims Online: New and Improved
2004	Published an article on my PEAR Log package in the 02.2004 issue of PHP Magazine Joined the Association for Computing Machinery Transferred from The Sims Online development team to the Ultima Online development team Completed my first marathon (with Team in Training) Shipped Ultima Online: Samurai Empire Completed The Saturn Relay with the Electronic Arts corporate team (Team Need For Speed) Moved to San Mateo, CA
2005	Contributed a chapter to Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2 Made my first trip to Japan and attended the 2005 FISA World Rowing Championships Completed The Relay again with the Electronic Arts corporate team (Team Need For Speed) Officially retired from The Horde Project
2006	Transferred to the Sims Division of Electronic Arts

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Autobiography (2000)

written for a course in December 2000

written my senior year of high school

pictures of me and my stuff

my online journal

my Amazon wish list

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a brief analysis of my name

"jon" is the #157 most common male name

INTP

my Myers-Briggs type

my Chinese zodiac sign

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