John joined Oracle in 2003 and worked as an engineer before moving into a Product Management role in the E-Business Suite Platform Engineering group. John leads the team responsible for the strategic direction of EBS as it relates to operating systems and hardware architectures, and works to identify solutions that will add value to Oracle, partners, and customers.
Prior to Oracle he worked in various engineering roles such as leading a Developer Support group at a realtime graphical software company (SL Corp), as a systems engineer developing electrical grid control software for a large engineering company (Asea Brown Boveri/ABB), and as a UI developer for a CRM company (Kana Software).
John has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a focus on Control Systems and Computer Modeling of complex electro-mechanical systems. In his spare time he is known to play tennis, kick a soccer ball on occasion, loves travel and follows international soccer intently.
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