Jonathan
W. Fenner
Chief Technical Officer
| "At some companies the CIO doesn't have much to do with actual technology but at other companies the CTO even reports to the CIO! What are the 'traditional' roles for the chief information officer and the chief technology officer? And to who do they report, the COO or directly to the president/CEO? It is my task to review, test or set up a scalable and realistic management structure, and to confirm or provide the CEO with a quality assurance program and for your organization. Software Quality Assurance and Security involves the entire software development process - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. The objective is prevention and detection to maintain continuity."
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Computers have been an integral part of every day life for Jonathan Fenner since his early childhood. With an electrical engineer for a father who built his own PC from scratch in the early 70s, Mr. Fenner grew up in the ground breaking era of computers and an excellent home environment for learning everything one would want to know about electronics, systems, circuits and computers. At age 12, he taught himself to program in BASIC. Mr. Fenner began programming professionally as early as high school when he wrote many educational programs, games, and small applications for his Apple and IBM computer system. But he started his first "real" job at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). This was after he was found breaking into their computer system. They were so impressed with his skills for such a young man that they thought it better to have him working for them than against them! Mr. Fenner attended college at UTA in his hometown of Arlington, TX. In 1991, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering, with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence. He went on to work at Loral Vought Systems where he had worked while in college in the cooperative education program. Accomplishments at Loral included R/D in Artificial Intelligence, neural network based encryption algorithms, computer war game simulations, and computer graphics and animation. It was at Loral that he published his paper entitled "Design of an IRFPA non-uniformity correction algorithm to be implemented as a real-time hardware prototype", SPIE Optical Engineering, April 1994. In 1992, Mr. Fenner and his wife established Elite Resources for their consulting and computer programming services. What started out as a part-time business rapidly progressed to a full-time corporation, with expertise and skills spanning a wide variety of computer related areas, including Internet applications and websites, database administration and development, and network design and development. In 1997 a contract with Sabre Technologies was acquired where Mr. Fenner participated in the development of Canadian Airlines reservation system. This was also the project that led to work on American Airline's reservation system, as well as the development of the mission-critical WeatherMaps intranet, which provides AA flight planners with weather information. In 2001, Elite Resources merged with ProductFactory, Inc., a Massachusetts company specializing in program management software. In all of these applications, network and system security were always forefront in the development process. Web-based applications, especially those involving financial data, airline reservations, and corporate program management, are all mission-critical areas. Security from the standpoint of invalid users, invalid application usage, and application errors has always been a primary goal for all development processes. |
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