William Jones
Senior Communications Specialist
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Jones is a seasoned communications and public relations professional with over 20 years of experience and a decade of focused roles in corporate and nonprofit communications. Currently a Senior Communications Specialist at Givaudan and an adjunct instructor at Ohio Media School, he blends strategic messaging with hands-on teaching to develop both organizational voice and future communicators. His career spans healthcare device companies, cultural institutions, and media organizations, giving him a rare cross-sector perspective on audience engagement and media relations. William pairs traditional PR strengths—crisis communication, social strategy, and stakeholder engagement—with practical technical curiosity, evidenced by substantive open-source contributions to LibreNMS where he extended device detection for Meraki hardware. Based in Cincinnati, he leverages local roots and broad industry experience to craft measurable communication programs that align with business goals. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex technical details into clear narratives that resonate across internal and external audiences.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication at University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (8)
network10
monitoring10
snmpd10
snmp10
php10
network-monitoring10
laravel-mix5
laravel5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to the LibreNMS project by developing OS detection modules and definitions for Meraki devices. Their work involved creating PHP files to identify specific Meraki hardware models (MR, MS, MX) based on system descriptions. Additionally, they added definitions for these Meraki devices within the system, including their types, icons, and traffic graphs, thereby integrating new network devices into the monitoring system. These changes significantly extended the supported hardware for monitoring.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
willjones/aruba
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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