John is a longtime partner and advocate for NetApp and lives in San Jose, California. He is a member of the NetApp A-Team and has served for more than 15 years on the NetApp Partner Advisory Board. John has been a customer of and a partner with NetApp for more than 24 years. As a partner, John has held CTO, VP, field CTO, and director-level leadership roles and has worked for more than 30 years to enable customers to accelerate their transformations and the modernization of their technical and operational models. John has led teams delivering complex systems in demanding, mission-critical, large-scale enterprise and cloud environments. John consults and has held executive, architecture, and management roles at General Datatech, LP, Integrated Archive Systems, Symantec, Solectron (now part of Flex), Madge Networks, and Elsevier MDL.