Jonah Burke 531 Malden Avenue East, Apt. 102, Seattle, WA 98112 206-234-4558 jonah@jonahb.com http://jonahb.com EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Science. 1998 to 2002 * Bachelor of Science in Economics, Finance concentration. Summa cum laude * Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering major. Summa cum laude EMPLOYMENT Independent Work. Seattle, WA. September 2006 to Present * Founded and directed The Darfur Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports peace in Darfur, Sudan * Created The Darfur Wall (darfurwall.org), a web site that to date has raised over 40,000 dollars from donors in 30 countries * Developing Gardens for Growing, a web site that combats child abuse by allowing donors to buy flowers in virtual gardens * Produced web site and content-management system for Northampton Center for the Arts, a non-profit organization Microsoft Corporation. Redmond, WA. Program Manager. May 2003 to July 2006 * Conceived and designed ground-breaking business-application integration features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 * Coordinated implementation of business-application integration features across development, test, and marketing groups * Presented at major technical conferences including Microsoft Professional Developers Conference and Microsoft TechEd * Received seven pending patents for new ideas in business-application integration Microsoft Corporation. Redmond, WA. Program Manager Intern. Summers 2000 and 2002 * Designed and developed application to report on Windows crash data, contributing to significant reduction in crashes * Conceived and implemented application to track responsibility for Microsoft software libraries, decreasing time to fix bugs Credit Suisse First Boston, Technology Group. Boston, MA. Summer Analyst. Summer 2001 * Analyzed financing alternatives for major communications equipment provider and produced presentation for its CTO * Researched communications equipment sector and produced presentation on potential investments for private equity firm HONORS * Microsoft Gold Star – Highly selective award given to promising Microsoft employees * Beta Gamma Sigma – Honor society consisting of top 3 percent of Wharton class PENDING PATENTS * "Adaptive Picker for Selecting Data in Disparate Information Systems." With A. Kapadia, H. Crow, and T. Tennisberg * "Annotating Documents with Business Information." With H. Crow, J. Kauffman, and T. Tennisberg * "Contextual Action Publishing." With H. Crow and T. Tennisberg * "Crawling Databases for Information." With A. Kapadia, D. Parke, and H. Crow * "Disparate Data Store Services Catalogued for Unified Access." With A. Kapadia and H. Crow * "Unified Authorization for Heterogeneous Applications." With A. Kapadia * "Uniform Access to Entities In Registered Data Store Services." With A. Kapadia and H. Crow SELECTED TALKS * "The Darfur Wall" – Ignite Seattle, December 7, 2006 * "Connecting Portals to Line-of-Business Data" – Microsoft TechEd, June 14, 2006 * "The Business Data Catalog" – Microsoft SharePoint Conference, May 16, 2006 * "Surfacing Your Application's Line-of-Business Data" – Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, September 15, 2005 INTERESTS * Running – Portland Marathon 2006 finisher (3:36), Virginia Mason half-marathon 2006, Olympia half-marathon 2006 * Reading, programming, politics, music, travel, basketball, tennis, soccer, skiing, Spanish language, volunteering VOLUNTEERING * School Year Abroad – Interviewer, 2003 to present * Seattle Works – Recruited and led teams of over 200 Microsoft volunteers on annual day of volunteering, 2003 to 2006 * Children's Hospital – Emergency room staff at Seattle hospital, Summer 2005 * West Philadelphia Tutoring Project – Tutored first-graders in reading and math, 1998 to 2002 PROJECTS * Shapes – Puzzle game and game-programming framework for Windows (in progress) * What's the Count? – Service that delivers sports scores and information to mobile phones (in progress) * First Call – Co-founded and edited weekly commentary paper; managed 50 undergraduate students * Irish Accommodations – Profitable web site that promoted over 1,000 accommodations * Java Compiler – Java compiler written in Java including lexical analyzer, predictive parser, and code generator * Jonix – Multitasking, UNIX-like operating system and applications written in C for Solaris * Spamster – Distributed email filtering system that allows users to share opinions about what is junk SKILLS * Software Development – C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby, Rails, ASP.NET, XML, DHTML, SQL, DirectX, OO design, Linux, Windows * Human Languages – Advanced Spanish, Intermediate Italian