John has been providing business and IT/digital navigation assistance to leading global companies as well as small non-profit organizations for more than 4 decades. He draws from intimate experience with a wide variety of endeavors.
Working for an IBM Fellow in the early 1970’s he did pioneering work in computer-assisted-instruction and computer networking as he built and managed a shared computer system used by 45 educational institutions. In the mid 1980’s while consulting to Apple for Nolan, Norton, he facilitated Apple’s first IT planning process and then led a team that shaped their first global strategic initiatives.
He followed this experience by doing research on technology and globalization for IBM that confirmed their impetus to create IBM Global Services… IBM’s most successful endeavor in the 1990’s. He co-authored a book about this work, Global Vision, Building New Models for the Corporation of the Future, published by McGraw-Hill.
In the 90’s John was asked to join IBM as General Manager of IBM Business Consulting in Europe to help lead the implementation of the transformation of IBM from a hardware company into a global software and services company.
During the last decade John has been very involved in advising or leading several non-profit science/and environmental education organizations including the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Organization (Board Chair for 3 years) and the Environmental Learning Organization in Vero Beach (Currently Vice-Chair).