Jayson Minard

Jayson Minard was involved in or related to these technology products or innovations:

* Part of the Force team developing the Force Xbase compiler, the first natively compiled and statically typed Xbase language.
* Lead of the NavCIS team that created WYSIWYG e-mail and WYSIWYG forum messaging in the early 1990s (on CompuServe).
* Created the concept for, and participated in developing the JBuilder product at Borland.
* Involved in creation of early Java specifications such as JavaBeans and JDBC.
* Received the patent for class and source navigational development environments which most modern IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are based upon.
* Became the owner of the Vancouver-based co-working business, WorkSpace in July 2008

Other history

* AbeBooks as CIO and CTO, a comparison site for new, used, out-of-print and rare books.
* Zend Technologies as lead for the Zend Framework and creator and Editor in Chief for the Zend Developer Zone.
* BEA Systems as Directory, Engineering Product Management.
* Borland as Chief Architect for Java Products.

Currently the CTO of MindHeap Technology, an IT consulting company.