About
Jonathan Stark is a web developer, speaker, and author. His consulting firm, Jonathan Stark Consulting, Inc., has attracted clients such as Staples, Turner Broadcasting, and the PGA Tour.
Jonathan is the author of the book Web Publishing with PHP and FileMaker 9, is a regular speaker at the FileMaker Developer Conference, and is both a PHP and FileMaker certified developer.
He is quoted frequently in the media, and is a technical editor for both php|architect and FileMaker Advisor magazines. The Wall Street Journal calls him a "leading expert on publishing desktop data to the web."
Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.
In his own words
I have forever been interested in two things: computers and music. So, after spending the better part of my teens and twenties attempting to cultivate a career in music, I finally crossed over to the dark side and took a desk job as a graphic designer.
One thing led to another and the next thing I knew, I was making a nice living designing custom database and web applications for a prominent FileMaker consulting company, The Moyer Group. I became the Vice President and had a ball managing a bunch of excellent developers on a wide range of projects. During that time, I started writing magazine articles on FileMaker Pro. In 2006, I spoke at the FileMaker developer conference in Orlando for the first time.
After several years of working for a recognized leader in the industry, I had a head full of exciting ideas about how to build a better mousetrap. Most of them were not a good fit for my employer, so I eventually ventured off to put my money where my mouth was. Toward that end, I founded a software consulting firm with the extremely unimaginitive name of "Jonathan Stark Consulting."
More information
If you would like to know more (or are insanely bored), you can follow me on Twitter, check out my picture feed, my favorite quotes, my personal blog, my work experience, and this interview done by Tim Dietrich over at FileMaker Addict. Most of my client work is private, but there are a few public examples that you can play with here, here, and here. I have also posted a bunch of nice testimonials. Thank you for your interest! j
