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Jonathan Jackson

Jonathan Jackson is a lifelong entrepreneur, software engineer, and system designer with extensive real-world experience in the design, development and deployment of technology systems. He has built software systems and development teams for a variety of projects in both developed and developing environments.

From 1999 to 2002, Jonathan researched user-centric systems at the MIT Media Lab. In the Context Aware Computer lab, he directed research on an automated assistant that facilitated scheduling and alerts based on pattern recognition and communication over e-mail, SMS, and direct TCP connections.

In 2003 Jonathan was awarded a Department of Homeland Security Fellowship at MIT and the Brigham and Women's hospital, where he developed neural network software that was able to dynamically test multiple learning algorithms and report on the optimal parameters for a given algorithm and dataset.

More recently, he led the technical development as founder and CTO of Infinidex, an award winning contact search management startup. He also has worked for short durations at Goldman Sachs as a summer trader and at Bechtel in the Remote Sensing Laboratory.

Jonathan earned bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jonathan is a founding board member of the UnaMesa Foundation and a visiting scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital Decision Systems Group. He is currently the CEO of Dimagi, Inc.

Focus at UnaMesa:
Jonathan focuses on how to apply the principals of the UnaMesa Association to the services Dimagi provides to its clients. In particular, he is interested in how to utilize tools available to the UnaMesa community in order to lower the total costs of delivering services.

Tasks - current and completed: http://tasks.projects.unamesa.org/Dimagi