About

Johnathan is the Managing Partner of JDRC. Johnathan’s professional career began in 1994 when he was hired by Nortel Networks in Durham, NC, shortly after graduating from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. While at Nortel, Johnathan was quickly promoted from a junior member of the team to a system architect responsible for the software controlling downloadable tones, timeswitch, and the universal tone receiver. The highlight of his time at Nortel came in 1997 when he was given the opportunity to present a new toneset specification at a customer site in Hong Kong. Not stopping there, Johnathan took a detour to Bombay, India to train some of the developers there. It was here at Nortel that Johnathan developed his love for low level programming including device driver design and implementation.

In mid 2001, Johnathan changed from the telecom industry to the defense industry. His first taste of this exiting new world came when he was hired by Raytheon Falls Church. While here, he worked on many exciting projects such as: Wolfpack, Dynamic Airspace Management System (DAMS) , Airborne Communications Node(ACN), and Future Combat Systems (FCS). His experience here continued to improve his low level and real time development as well as provide insight to the world of rapid prototyping.

The most exciting and challenging part of his career came in the spring of 2005 when he accepted an assignment with a major player in the intelligence arena. This position allowed him to research PC, Mac, and Linux based security products, protocols, and technologies. This unique opportunity opened his eyes to the untapped universe of reverse engineering and designing new products based on identified vulnerabilities within the various operating systems. Terms such as mach injection, function interposing, application hooking, and disassembly were commonly used on this assignment.

With this assignment coming to an end, Johnathan headed east to Dalhgren, VA, to work on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). While he got some first hand experience developing and interfacing with weapons systems for this new class of war vessel, he was most at home doing the ‘behind the scenes’ work. The software he will most be remembered for was the Data Distribution Service (DDS). The DDS is the primary messaging service for almost all communications on the Littoral Combat Ship. This system uses a publish / subscribe model to distribute data across multiple machines on a network in a highly efficient and error free manner. The DDS system successfully merges C and Java clients communicating on different platforms and on different endian machines.

With Johnathan’s final stop in the defense contracting world as an employee, he returned to the intelligence community. Here he began to develop his skills as a web services designer. His talents were also used in integrating language processing tools–helping the agency to quickly and easily identify points of interest in its expansive library of data.