John Howard Jenkins (II)
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| John H. Jenkins | |
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| Born | 12 May 1960 Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Residence | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Other names | 井作恆 |
| Occupation | Software Engineer |
| Spouse | Heidi Nelson |
| Children | Mary Jenkins Richard Jenkins Olivia Jenkins |
| Parents | J. Richard Jenkins Rose Bennett |
| Mission | Hong Kong, 1979-1981 |
| Website | http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins |
John H. Jenkins was born 12 May 1960 at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the adopted son of J. Richard Jenkins and Rose Bennett. John is married to Heidi Nelson, and they have three children: Mary, Richard and Olivia.
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[edit] School and Mission
John graduated from Highland High School in Salt Lake City in June 1978. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong from August 1979 to August 1981. He graduated from the University of Utah in June 1983 and went on to do graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, which he completed in 1990. He holds MAs in both History and Mathematics.
[edit] Marriage
John and Heidi met in seventh grade first period math, although they didn't sit together and John was transferred out of the class mid-year. Although they had a brief romance at the end of their ninth grade year and dated occasionally, their association over the years was mostly that of good friends. John commissioned Heidi to write a song for his mission farewell which was performed by his aunt and uncle.
John returned from his mission in August 1981 and Heidi left for hers in Seville, Spain, almost immediately afterwards. Over the three-and-a-half year course of their respective missions, they corresponded only rarely. It was therefore a surprise to Heidi when John proposed to her less than a month after she got home from her mission; she was even more surprised when she accepted.
They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on 23 June 1983 and moved to the Bay Area five weeks later. They stayed in the Bay Area for seventeen years, moving back to Salt Lake City in June 2000.
[edit] Career
John has been employed with Apple Inc. for most of his career. When Apple spun off Taligent as a joint venture with IBM in 1992, John became a part of the new company but returned to Apple after Taligent became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM three years later. He works in the Frameworks Department at Apple and is primarily responsible for maintenance of Apple's fonts and development of font tools. He is also a Technical Director of the Unicode Consortium, where he works primarily on the Unicode Standrd's large repertoire of East Asian Ideographs.
[edit] Personal
John is an avid reader and has an extensive collection of the books of the late Isaac Asimov. His reviews of Asimov's books are a standard Web reference. He also has a massive collection of Gilbert and Sullivan recordings.
He also maintains a blog to keep people apprised of the events in his family's life.
John is a contributor to Footnotes to the New Testament for Latter-day Saints. He wrote the commentaries for Luke and Acts in Volume One and the commentary for Romans and many of the appendices in Volume Two.
John's work for Unicode led to his writing the original proposal to add the Deseret Alphabet to the standard. His involvement with Apple's fonts led to Mac OS X being the first computer operating system with a built-in Deseret Alphabet font. John also used a computer to transcribe the entire Triple Combination into Deseret.
His favorite Pokémon is Psyduck.
