Jon Brown
ISSO, Mac Admin & Head Of IT at Eleven Peppers Studios
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJon Brown is an Apple-focused IT leader, ISSO, and founder with 12+ years of hands-on experience building secure, compliant macOS infrastructure for nonprofits, federal contractors, and advocacy campaigns. He founded Grove Technologies and led its acquisition, then scaled Apple MDM, zero-touch deployment, and DevSecOps practices as VP Technology at Interlaced and Head of IT at Eleven Peppers. Jon combines executive strategy (Executive MBA) and technical depth (CISSP, CSSLP, JAMF Certified Expert) to align NIST/CMMC security frameworks with practical endpoint automation and identity integrations. His work has powered high-stakes initiatives—from a Congressional Lookup tool for nationwide advocacy to infrastructure for NIH and NSF programs—demonstrating an unusual mix of product-minded engineering and policy-facing delivery. He mentors early-career IT professionals and often operates as a hands-on integrator, scripting automations and unifying disparate MDMs to reduce operational overhead. Based in Silver Spring, MD, he’s known for translating mission-driven goals into resilient, Apple-first IT platforms that scale.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Information Technology, Executive MBA Information Technology at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyBA Graphic Communications Magna Cum Laude Graphic Communications Computer Animation, BA Graphic Communications Magna Cum Laude Graphic Communications Computer Animation at Franklin Pierce University
English
Github Skills (64)
apple-silicon10
foundation9
bootstrap9
mdm9
datatables9
materialize9
dmg9
macos8
gnu8
homebrew8
pagination8
semantic-ui8
semantic8
recipe8
css8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
breelabs/Animal-Age-iOS
Sep 2016 - Jul 2024
iOS Version
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 years 11 months
food-water-watch/FWW-FWP
Dec 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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