Using jqGrid in an MVC 4 Web Application

I have been a software developer since 1995, although my education was in molecular biology. I started as an embedded systems C/C++ developer during the telecom boom, but now consider myself a .NET developer comfortable with all aspects of software development from the user interface to the back end. My spare time is spent writing for Wikipedia (focusing on physics, molecular biology, and science biography), and I have trained in aikido since 2000.