Jayson Minard is once again Editor-in-Chief of the Zend Developer Zone. In fact, he used to work here at the beginning of time. He has been away for a bit building highly scalable web sites, content ingestion and search systems (did someone say "Billions of records?"), and contributing to open-source projects.

He has a strong background in highly scalable applications, search and discovery systems, software development processes and commercial software development. He has developed far too many software systems ranging from desktop applications through extremely high volume distributed systems.

Jayson was CTO at MindHeap Technology, providing technology strategy, architecture, product management and development consulting at high levels in client organizations; from architect through CIO/CTO. He worked with clients such as Endeca, Boeing, ProQuest, Zend, AbeBooks (Amazon), Alibris, LibraryThing, Oprius and Gossamer Threads. He also has something to do with Unfuddle.

Previously, as CIO and CTO of AbeBooks, he rebuilt the IT organization and technology platform and brought AbeBooks to a level playing field with the likes of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Half.com. That success has led to a recent acquisition by Amazon.

Jayson works across PHP, Java and .NET platforms balancing his time and experiences to stay strong in each -- while dabbling in other platforms as time allows. In fact in the PHP world he created the Zend DevZone community site and was the founding Editor-in-Chief, created the strategy for ZendCon, and led the Zend Framework open-source project for a time. He contributed to the Java platform as the Chief Architect for the Java Business Unit at Borland creating JBuilder and shaping early Java specifications. Jayson also has experience with most major database platforms, alternative data stores, enterprise technology and cloud computing.

He has been in software development for over 20 years but still thinks he will some day be a movie producer or own a recording studio. You can contact him via LinkedIn or by e-mail