Welcome to iOnTech
iOnTech.org
This domain was initially registered on August 22, 2000, to provide a domain to stage volunteer website development that was being provided to a small client list, as well as to host proof of concept work. In the years following, this has simply become the private domain of the owner, Jim Speaker, and continues to be a staging environment for POC and pet projects.
The Owner
Jim Speaker began his career, if you could call it that at the time, by transitioning from being a rock climbing bum to being a guy with one child by marriage, another on the way, and a dream: to publish Spokane Rock Climbs. The book was written, photographed, designed and laid out by the owner while learning the intricacies of Freehand, Photoshop and Quark XPress. This all-photographic guide to rock climbing in the Spokane, Washington area was self-published in 1996 by Jim Speaker dba Stone Publishing.
During the production of the book and following, a small graphic design and print publishing client list was established in the Spokane area. Soon after, with the advent of the internet as something that was actually known to the general public, clients began asking for website work. Having significant prior computing and BASIC programming skills from youth, diving into HTML and JavaScript came easily. This quickly led into Classic ASP, SQL and CSS. Dropping the business and deciding to opt for stable paychecks and benefits, Jim worked a couple of great Microsoft contracts, was an Associate Consultant for several years at Fujitsu Consulting, and Software Development Lead at WaMu on WaMu.com online banking for seven years. After the implosion of Washington Mutual Bank and its acquisition by Chase Bank, he moved on to take on a Senior Software Developer role at Twisted Pair Solutions and finally at present day is loving life as a Senior Software Engineer at Getty Images where he enjoys Kanban (agile) methodology writing test-driven C# in .NET Framework 4.0, MVC 3, Ajax, SQL, WCF, LINQ, jQuery, etc. He is currently building out two new web properties for Getty Images and after having spent about a year on the Thinkstock website.
