John has over 34 years in the computer industry: architecting, designing and coding. Prior to joining Intel in 1995, John worked 10 years at two successful startups in Silicon Valley: Sun Microsystems and Auspex Systems. John is a graduate from the California Institute of Technology and worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, McDonnell Douglas and Logicon. (At JPL, John researched and published findings from analyzing the telemetry transmitted by the Pioneer 12 Venus Orbiter. At Logicon, John worked on space-based battle management algorithms for the Strategic Defense Initiative, including managing an orbital mechanics simulation lab.) Currently, he is a system manageability architect in Intel’s datacenter group and is focused on the manageability architecture of Rack Scale Design platforms. John has been a member of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standards body since 2004. He has participated in both the Common Information Model (CIM) working groups and the Redfish Forum (SPMF). John has been involved with Redfish since its inception and currently co-chairs multiple Redfish subgroups. John has authored and contributed to over 40 DMTF specification. Currently, John sits on the DMTF Board holding the VP of Alliances office and co-chairs the CIM Profiles for Platforms and Services working group