Jonathan Marbutt

At the early age of ten Jonathan began to learn to program building simple games to amuse his friends and family. Twenty years later he still has passion for technology and development. Jonathan loves to share his passion with other developers by writing for his blog and various books as well as speaking at many user groups and technology conferences. Throughout the past three years Jonathans focus has primarily been on working with Silverlight and its most recent version for Windows Phone 7. Through this newest version for Windows Phone 7, Jonathan has been able to work on many high profile applications that are rated as some of the most downloaded applications. Jonathan is also currently the Vice President and Co-founder of WayCool Software, Inc. based in Birmingham, AL, which provides solutions for non-profit organizations. Jonathan also has been providing consulting services through his latest venture JM TechWare, Inc., where he helps provide both User Experience and architectural guidance on Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and WPF applications. In addition to development, Jonathan has co-authored Visual Basic 2010 and .Net 4 published by Wrox Press.