John began his high-tech career working for 10 years as linguist in the US Air Force and reserve. After earning a BA in Applied Linguistics John joined Boeing Computer Services Artificial Intelligence Center working as a computational linguist helping to develop a computer program that could read and understand tens of thousands of pages of Boeing aircraft maintenance manuals.

John enjoyed a 32 year career at Boeing working as a computer researcher, software architect and developer, and product manager. He shares many inventions and 5 patent applications for his work on production applications including the Boeing Simplified English Checker (Boeing: Simplified English Checker), the Boeing Collaborative Document Reviewer, and the Boeing ATOM Augmented Reality application for MS HoloLens (RAAF uses HoloLens mixed-reality device for C-17A maintenance (airforce-technology.com). John has a Masters degree in Information Technology with a focus on cloud computing.

Outside of work John has done lots of fun stuff over the years. He loves to ski on both the water and the snow with his wife and kids, grandson and extended family spending the summer on Lake Samish, Fall in Sicily and Winter at Mt. Baker. John enjoys travel, salsa dancing, yoga, rock and roll guitar, great food and studying Italian.

Patents:

• US8032544B2 - Methods and apparatus for generating dynamic program files based on input queries that facilitate use of persistent query services - Google Patents

• US8601001B2 - Selectively structuring a table of contents for accessing a database - Google Patents

• US20100131614A1 - System and method for scalable architecture for web-based collaborative annotation of page-based documents - Google Patents

• US8719216B2 - Caching of web form post-query requests - Google Patents