About
Self portrait taken with my Android phone.
My name is Jon Crowell and I am a software engineer and aspiring magazine writer based in Manhattan.
I was born in Wisconsin to a hematologist and biochemist, and then raised in India where my parents served as missionary doctors for 15 years. I graduated from Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India.
Following high school I studied philosophy at Messiah College, in central Pennsylvania. Messiah is a Christian school associated with the Brethren in Christ, a Mennonite denomination.
In 2001 and I received an MS in computer science from West Virginia University.
From 2002 until 2006 I worked at the Decision Systems Group, a medical informatics research lab in Boston, where I did mainly java programming.
From 2006 until 2009 I worked for a proprietary trading group at Deutsche Bank where I built program-trading software in java and also executed trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for our group. (Yes, I kept unusual hours.)
In 2009 I left Wall Street and matriculated at Columbia, where I expect to receive an MS in journalism in May of 2010.