About Batener
What's in a name?
Way back in the bygone days of yore, Jonathan Bates studied together with Kevin Hafner. When they would concot study scenarios, instead of using ficticious company names like Acme or Generic Company One, they merged their last names together. Thus the company name of Batener was born.
Kevin's then-wife asked, "Why Batener, why did Jonathan's last name take precendence?" Kevin and Jonathan both agreed that "Batener" had a better ring to it then "Haftes".
Who Are We?
Thomas is the Vice-President of Operations for Batener Technology Solutions, Inc.
Thomas Bates is a developer with hands-on experience in providing software solutions to industries such as mortgage origination/servicing, and insurance. His knowledge ranges from database design and maintenance to .NET architecture, troubleshooting/debugging, and deployment on the Windows/Web platform. Thomas believes in building positive and lasting client relationships by yielding consistently productive results.
Contact him at thomas.bates@batener.org.
Jonathan is the founder of Batener Technology Solutions, Inc.
He has had a long and storied path on the way to I.T. work. At one point, Jonathan had a
near Neo-Luddite position about computers, believing them at worst to be the means to humanity's
eventual slavery and at best tools for general evil. After landing a job powered by such advanced
technologies as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and MS Access, Jonathan began to change his opinion on computers.
He began to believe that they might be for more than just improving the display and sound qualities
on his Laserdisc movies. In time, he came to see that computers were nothing more than tools,
not much different then a hammer (though not as good to drive nails with).
Jonathan Bates is an industry-certified and proven developer and trainer, facilitating the transfer of knowledge from conceptual client request to delivered and implemented solution. Jonathan enjoys sharing his knowledge and understanding about development principals with like-minded people. You can generally find him enjoying good company discussing his personal Unified Theory and how programming can be used to describe it. And if you can't find him, drop him a line with a time and place and he'll find you.
Contact him at jonathan.bates@batener.org.