John has 31+ years of experience with enterprise systems.  He has worked as a developer, team lead, architect, and manager for hundreds of projects and clients throughout his career.  He has spent the last two years co-leading the software solutions development teams in Professional Services; and the previous 13+ years as a technical lead/architect focusing on a variety of areas, including partner integrations/LTI, grades exchange, Ultra/SaaS, the Blackboard Xythos/Content Management System, and single sign-on authentication, among others. John has been with Anthology/Blackboard/Xythos since 2007. John has his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.