About the Authors

Nolan Vincent Jones is an accomplished IT Leader who lives in O’Fallon Missouri in the United States. He started his career in 1989 after receiving a Bachelor’s of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology. His first job was working with Metrology automation calibrating and testing RF/microwave military grade electronic equipment through an IEE-488 interface using HP9000 microcomputers and HP3000 minicomputers. He went on to work at many fortune 500 companies and has worked on leading-edge information technology initiatives such as bioinformatics and space laser communication systems where performance and scale were keys to success. He had the opportunity to write high performance software in C language to test Internal Navigation Systems for fighter jets and worked on development of DNA sequencing software products used by the food industry. He has developed real time financial systems in Java, C and .NET technologies. His big picture thinking around architecture allowed him to design/develop complex real time enterprise level telecommunication software. Many years he worked in various IT domains such as enterprise architecture, operations, development and performance engineering across many industries. He has written software in a variety of computer languages (Basic, C, Pascal, Golang, Python, Java, C++, Visual Basic, Prolog, Javascript, VBScript, Rexx, HTML, C sharp and many others). As a leader, he has effectively managed over project managers and application development teams, quality teams, performance teams, and operations teams. During his long career, he has directly managed Performance Engineering Teams at 3 large corporations and built-up new performance practices from the ground up and derived the strategies. He has developed core business enterprise level distributed software and he has been trained in important management philosophies around people leadership and defining organizational business processes. His technical insights and strong leadership in Performance Engineering, which is his strongest passion, has provided a significant benefit to many initiatives.