Jonathan has had key roles in projects essential to the growth and adoption of the Internet backbone (National Science Foundation Network, 1989-1994), online education (University of Washington, 1992-1994) and the birth of E-commerce (@ Amazon, 1996-2001). He also led the creation of the world’s most comprehensive and sophisticated computational engine to calculate the economic benefits of any ecosystem, anywhere in the world (@Earth Economics, 2011-2016).

His academic training at Yale was in Evolutionary Biology and Biostatistics (1981-1989) where he studied how new biological species evolve and the phylogenetic constraints on plant phenology in the US and Japan. In addition to his frequent work as an Information Architect and Data Scientist, he has been an Epidemiologist, Climate Change Scientist, Human Genome Mapping Analyst, Cancer Researcher, and Professional Musician with 2 songs in top-40 AAA Radio. He is also a veteran of 9 startup companies, primarily in the tech sector.

Jonathan was personally recruited by Jeff Bezos to become member#9 at Amazon when it was merely one of hundreds of online bookstores. He has had key roles in projects essential to the growth and adoption of the Internet backbone at the birth of E-commerce at Amazon. He supported Amazon"s expansion into products besides just books, helped construct enterprise data models encompassing all current and many prospective functions within Amazon.com and data flows between Amazon, customers, and vendors (ErWIN).

In his five years at Amazon, he helped create the foundations of many departments. For Amazon Books, he developed processes and protocols for the Catalog and Editorial Department. In particular, he invented the system that allowed Amazon book catalog to be “browsed” by more than 225,000 hierarchical subject headings. To help Amazon become the “Everything Store” as it now is, he was responsible for incorporating databases of acquired companies. Most importantly, he was on the team that created the sophisticated data-model that allowed Amazon to sell anything, and which also created Amazon’s first Data Warehouses.

Jonathan is currently Director of Business Development at RChain, a 3rd generation general-purpose blockchain platform whose mathematical foundations have been under development since 1995. RChain solves the four main problems of existing  lockchains scalability, security, speed and sustainability and is launching in March 2019 (https://rchain.coop & https://developer.rchain.coop). He is also currently Interim President of RChain Asia, which is responsible for growth of the RChain network in Japan, Korea, China, SE Asia, AU/NZ and India.  Jonathan’s daily responsibilities include Business Development, Investor Relations, coordinating between RChain US and RChain Asia, and Government Relations.