John is a serial entrepreneur who began his career in the Air Force, and has over 35 years experience in the IT field with the last 25 in digital marketing, social media and web development. He has a broad background in print, broadcast and digital media having worked with regional, national and international press, business and nonprofit organizations.In 1991 he founded CompuTech, a technology company that manufactured and sold PC computer systems and workstations in the print, graphics and broadcast media vertical markets. In 1995 he moved to the Internet, founding Digital Media Systems, a web development company. In 1998 he launched a regional Internet Service Provider in Minnesota and North Dakota. In 2001 he launched an online news network. John is a social media professional and WordPress developer, with high-level skills with both open source and multisite, and has specialties in newsroom editorial management, news aggregation and digital broadcast, online communities, content management systems, digital video and audio, search engine optimization, digital signage systems, online advertising and digital branding. He is passionate about good user interface design and user experience, and is always working to make websites more functional and easy to use.