Jayson Minard

Jayson Minard was involved in or related to these technology products or innovations:

• Part of the Force team developing the Force Xbase compiler, the first natively compiled and statically typed Xbase language.
• Lead of the NavCIS team that created WYSIWYG e-mail and WYSIWYG forum messaging in the early 1990s (on CompuServe).
• Created the concept for, and participated in developing the JBuilder product at Borland.
• Involved in creation of early Java specifications such as JavaBeans and JDBC.
• Received the patent for class and source navigational development environments which most modern IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are based upon.

Other history

• AbeBooks as CIO and CTO, a comparison site for new, used, out-of-print and rare books.
• Zend Technologies as lead for the Zend Framework and creator and Editor in Chief for the Zend Developer Zone.
• BEA Systems as Directory, Engineering Product Management.
• Borland as Chief Architect for Java Products.

Currently the CTO of MindHeap Technology, an IT consulting company.