About Jonathan Branam

I started programming on my TI-99/4A in the mid-80s, upgraded to a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive "Rad, now I can save my programs.", then to a 286 "20Mb hard drive, that's so tubular!" (authentic 80s expressions courtesy of In the 80s). I was so tired of programming in BASIC that I switched straight to x86 Assembly using good ol' MASM. This I did for a few years until I took a course at a local university and discovered that "most people" use higher-level programming languages like Pascal and C/C++. So I switched and never did assembly again (except for the GS on the PS2, but I'm getting ahead of myself). I then progressed through my "troubled years" of poor college performance and temporary jobs (Fortran, C++ MFC, Sys Admin, etc) until I landed a job working for a video game engine company called LithTech in Seattle (cf. the aforementioned PS2 programming).

After a few years doing that (I did manage get credited on a few games), I went back to college and got a BA in English, got married, had 2 boys, and was a Software Architect for a company in Muncie. I spent a blissful year with Cynergy doing RIA development full time and have now begun a new position with EffectiveUI.

I'm working from my beautiful, new home in ugly, flat Muncie, IN because I said, "I'm not moving" and they said, "OK." My remaining life goals (having achieved marriage and the baby thing) are to learn to speak and read Chinese, maybe move to China, to fly, and to hear the words "well done".