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Portland, Or, Us

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

As an Account Principal with Cognizant's Tech Modernization Practice (formerly Contino) John utilizes his prior DevOps, Agile, and Cloud Platform expertise to assist clients with transformational projects to improve time to market and achieve fast and frequent releases of modern application workloads.

Dayspring Enterprises is an LLC through which John invests in Real Estate. Webspinner is a software and services startup providing professional services related to DevOps and Platform Engineering. As a DevOps Architect John has served clients making strategic investments in IDPs (Internal Developer Platforms). At Webspinner John has served enterprise level clients such as United Airlines, Nike, and Leidos. He has been instrumental developing IaC (Infrastructure as Code) systems using Harness, CrossPlane, and Kubernetes Operators. John has coded in Golang and Python to enable more capable pipelines. Additionally John has supported the use of GitOps technologies including ArgoCD.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a DevOps Architect with Syapse John worked as part of Syapse' Cloud Engineering group. At Syapse John has completed a "reference architecture" for modernizing the company's cloud infrastructure. Through the use of Atlantis, Terraform, and Amazon EKS, John helped increase the company's agility and scalability by implementing dedicated ephemeral EKS clusters for particular workload types. Additionally, through the use of a hub and spoke network topology, John helped implement an AWS Transit Gateway for support of dedicated Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). To improve CI/CD and DevOps practice John helped move the company form a CircleCI/Jenkins pipeline to one with Github Actions workflows and ArgoCD for GitOps deployment. Other key improvements are the implementation of Hashicorp Vault for secrets management. Continuous monitoring of the new architecture utilizes Prometheus, FluentD and Grafana.Syapse is a premier provider of the real-world data to generate deep, quality insights that improve outcomes for all people with cancer. Focused in the sector of precision medicine John's work was with applications that seamlessly blend data intelligence, insight analytics and applied experience through a global hub of healthcare organizations that apply real-world evidence to transform patients’ lives. John's contributions helped foster the continued evolution and advancement of the company's data and application pipelines. By applying orthodox CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) practice and tooling, John helped enable secure, high-performant, fast-and-frequent releases at a global scale.

Reston, Virginia, Us

As a CI/CD DevOps SME, John served Federal Clients as a catalyst to accelerate digital transformation. Focused on improving software development and deployment practices John works with leading DevOps tooling to implement DevSecOps pipelines. John's prior familiarity with Red Hat's OpenShift, Kubernetes Security, Docker, GitOps, Ansible, Jenkins, and other technologies helps him innovate solutions that streamline deployments and improve the pace and frequency of software releases. His experience with Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance helps him innovate in areas of release gating and the creation of frictionless deployments. John is a thought leader that is hands-on, but also an active industry evangelist promoting the industry's most effective DevOps solutions.Currently enabling CD with Argo CD, Workflows, Rollouts and Events, plus OPA (Open Policy Agent). Coding GoLang modules that automate calls using the Kubernetes API.

Keller, Tx, Us

As a Training Architect with Linux Academy (now A Cloud Guru) John created courseware for Linux Academy e-learning students. Specializing in Agile and DevOps John was focussed on curriculum about DevSecOps and how to address governance, risk management, audit, and compliance concerns in enterprise computing environments. John's work included process and technology centered on accelerated hybrid cloud adoption. John's experience with Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift and open source CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) tooling contributed to the course content and provided hands-on labs based on hands-on experience. John's certifications in Agile and DevOps are instrumental in ensuring his orthodox approach to the culture and procedural change needed by organizations to meet the demands of digital transformation and improve time-to-market to keep pace with accelerated change. Courses Published include:Cloud Migration FundamentalsKubernetes SecurityKubernetes Security Advanced ConceptsDevSecOps EssentialsAIOps and Scaling KubernetesHands-On GitOps

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As a DevOps Certification Program Architect with GitHub John served developers, testers, architects and operations technologists by accelerating digital transformation through the people, process and technology required to implement orthodox DevOps practice. GitHub's certification programs are being developed to help organizations utilize GitOps and DevSecOps to their full advantage. John focussed on how GitHub in particular may be utilized for end-to-end CI/CD and focus on the continued evolution of virtual, hybrid cloud, and cloud native infrastructures. John's work included the development of Actions Workflows to deploy to Kubernetes environments on multi cloud platforms.

As a DevOps Architect with Herzum, John designed client solutions for automated cloud deployments. While serving Herzum John helped establish their partner status with Red Hat and define the Herzum OnRamp to Continuous Delivery Solution. Herzum is a premiere provider of professional services required by clients to accelerate their digital transformation. Using Agile and DevOps methodologies, combined with leading products from Atlassian, Red Hat, Docker and Google (Kubernetes), Herzum helps clients achieve the cultural change and automation necessary to deploy fast-and-frequent releases of software run in conventional data centers as well as hybrid cloud and multicloud environments. Herzum is an international consulting company and one of the largest Atlassian providers in the world. The group was created in March of 2000 in Chicago, and has offices in Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom and India.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

John worked with Red Hat’s Financial Services and Healthcare clients to improve their automation of CI/CD pipelines. John was a key contributor to the establishment of Red Hat’s Agile Practice and became a certified Scrum and Scaled Agile professional while with Red Hat. John worked with engineering and architecture to design and implement advanced DevOps and DevSecOps solutions.John is a certified agile and devops expert and helps clients with methodology transformation efforts. John has conducted workshops and engaged with client teams as a mentor and coach. John is a frequent speaker on the subject of improving time to market and overall agility.As financial institutions begin to embrace the disruption of Fintech innovations, John has worked within Red Hat and with our clients to leverage new business models and apply the people, process and technology to transform enterprise organizations.John started with Red Hat as a Senior Consultant in April of 2012 and worked his way up through the services organization as a Services Delivery Manager and Territory Services Manager before joining Red Hat's Financial Services Region.

Pleasanton, California, Us

At giftcards.com John helped rearchitect a group of Internet Applications written in Cake and PHP. Innovations included the use of CMS for content-driven pages and the refactoring of core transactional pages to be more SOA than MVC architecture. At Wolfe John helped with Agile/Scrum transformation and worked under the CTO to implement Story Boards. John utilized Atlassian tools including Jira, Confluence, Fisheye and Bamboo.

As a consultant with Para-Docs, LLC John provided clients professional services enabling the Para-Docs Document Management System. Key clients included the Maryland Insurance Administration, the Arkansas Department of Insurance, and the Kansas Department of Insurance.

Ambridge, Pa, Us

After selling Open Systems Group, John worked as an independent consultant and studied at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry.

Dallas, Texas, Us

As Founder of OSG John led a boot-strapped company started in his garage to be one of our nation's fastest growing companies recognized by Inc Magazine in the Inc. 500. The company grew to 60 consultants and over $6 million in annual revenue.

Boston, Ma, Us

Designed and Developed Information Systems for Fortune 1000 organizations. In Jack Welch's GE John was trained in Six Sigma and GE's proprietary software development life cycle called Project Management Methodology.

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