Jonathan Berney
Director Of Industrial Refrigeration & Heating, North America - Vilter By Copeland
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Berney is a Director-level industrial refrigeration and heating leader with 9 years in senior business development and sustainability roles and two decades of hands-on engineering experience dating back to co-op engineering at Pratt & Whitney. Based in Oakville, Ontario, he now leads North American industrial refrigeration for Vilter by Copeland, championing natural refrigerants and practical decarbonization strategies across commercial and industrial portfolios. His career blends field engineering, branch management, and strategic business development at Cimco and Emerson/Copeland, giving him deep expertise in system design, specification, and market adoption. Unusually for an industrial leader, he has contributed to open-source front-end work—improving component libraries and UX behavior—reflecting a practical, systems-minded approach to both product and software.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering Technologist, Mechanical Engineering Technologist at Sheridan CollegeMechanical Engineering; Bachelors; diploma, program; Mechanical Engineering Technology Co-op, Mechanical Engineering; Bachelors; diploma, program; Mechanical Engineering Technology Co-op at Lakehead University
Github Skills (13)
markdown10
javascript10
component-library10
markdown-it10
react10
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
ui-design9
sys9
front-end-development9
system9
css9
uid9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal-cf/pivotal-ui
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Pivotal's design system & component library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 14 PRs, 218 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the style guide and component library. They updated the style guide to use remark for markdown parsing, and modified code areas for better display. Additionally, the user addressed URL and path issues in the application and fixed the scroll behavior when switching between component pages. The user also contributed to the forms and checkbox field behavior within the React components.
reactpivotaldesign-systemreact-componentscomponent-library
jberney/availability-checker
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
Check product availability from popular retailers, send in-stock alerts via text message
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
pythonavailabilitytext-messagealertsstock
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