Jon joined Microsoft Research in 2007 and is currently focused on research related to the Dryad and DryadLINQ cluster computing platform.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Jon was at Apple Inc., where he led the team that built the audio and video processing pipelines for the iTunes Store. He started his career at Bell Northern Research (BNR), the research arm of Nortel Networks, working on distributed systems middleware and services related to the ANSA project, which evolved into work on the CORBA platform. Jon was Nortel’s technical representative to the Object Management Group (OMG), where he was the editor of the Real-Time CORBA specification and co-authored several other specifications related to fault tolerance, embedded systems and wireless networking. In between Nortel and Apple, Jon worked for Oracle and two startups, in each case specializing in high-performance distributed systems infrastructure.