I want to spend my life creating something of value. By that I mean that in my career as an independent software consultant and developer, I want to create products that are high quality, used by many, and known for benefits that massively outweigh their total cost of ownership. Value will also be on my mind when I someday leverage that investment to deliver web services that are fast, flexible, and truly trustworthy. I'm an entrepreneur of the emerging creative class that ultimately wants to deliver best of breed web software and services. To win your approval, I come bearing gifts.

My name is Jon Roberts, and I am the sole proprietor of Mentata Systems. The truth of the matter is, I'm slumming. My wife is a hardworking doctor in her residency, so my work life needs to be flexible enough to handle the management of a family and household. This situation has given me the opportunity to bring my career in information technology full circle. I have leveraged open standards and open source software throughout an excellent career that has spanned the last decade. Now working from home and armed with expertise, I am giving back to the open source community some of my best work.

During my career, I have received extensive formal training in computer science, abstract reasoning, software engineering, programming, and project management. I have been a successful information professional for the past 8 years, and am now an active freelance consultant. In recent ventures, I have focused on data schemes that begin with people. I've designed around an architecture so common that many organizations already have some of the prerequisite pieces, and can get quality implementations of any they don't have for free. I have built software that empowers the smaller enterprise to build sophisticated web applications and services. I have sacrificed much to gain the rights to this software, and I now release it to the world as free and open source under the Free Software Foundation's General Public License. May I present 

the Mentata LDAPHttp Framework
and
the Mentata Gateway application

A big idea and a little bit of Java glue that can make a web and directory infrastructure deliver all it can for you.

For more information, see
the LDAPHttp Project Page