Hey
there! I'm John! Thanks for checking this page out!
These
days I'm employed as an Engineering Program Manager in Motorola's
Wireline Networks division.
For
kicks, I like hiking and backpacking in the summer, downhill
skiing in the winter, working with the Cub
Scouts, and distance
running with the Merrimack
Valley Striders. I'm active in Union
Congregational Church in North Reading. I spend much of
my free time with my kids and we do a fair bit of outdoor stuff
together. Check out our "Peak Bagging Log"!
I also like spending time researching my family's genealogy.
If you really care... I grew up in Northampton,
Massachusetts and after getting my diploma from the Williston
Northampton School, I went on to the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst. After I drank a lot of beer
and got a BS there, I went to work for Syska
& Hennessy for almost five years as an HVAC engineer. The
projects I worked on included the Westin Copley Hotel and the
World Trade Center - both in Boston. In 1986 I went back to
UMASS as a graduate student and worked in the Energy
Analysis and Diagnostic Center. We provided energy audits
for small industrial plants. Starting in January of 1988, I
worked over 6 years for Xenergy
in Burlington, Ma. I was one of the principal authors of RECAP,
Xenergy's residential energy analysis software. In April of
1994, I began several years as an engineering manager at PictureTel
in Andover. I was the Software Manager for the first two releases
of the Venue 2000 videoconferencing system and the engineering
Program Manager for tactical releases in the Client Engineering
Group including the Venue 2000 and the world's first compact
videoconferencing system, SwiftSite.
In November of 1998, I went to work for MicroTouch
in Methuen as the Director of Custom Product Engineering. From
there, in May 2000, it was off to
Nortel
Networks in Billerica, MA, where I did almost three years
as a Program Manager working as part of Nortel's Intelligent
Internet Group. Then, in February 2003, it was on to Mercury
Computer where I spent 3-1/2 years as a Core Team Leader/Project
Manager working on multicomputers. In November of 2006, I moved
to Motorola.