As a software engineer over the past 18 years, Jon has worked with several large and small software organizations including Oracle, Endeca, IBM, Cognos, and ParAccel, selling software for MPP Database, Business Intelligence, Search, and Data Discovery. Jon has been focused on the Big Data/Hadoop space since 2014 by bringing solutions to his customers’ real-world use cases leveraging several of the major Hadoop distributions including Hortonworks. Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Sciences from Northern Illinois University (1991).