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John spearheads the company's technical and product strategy and leads the software development team. His experience creating intuitive, enterprise-class applications directly influences how Optiant designs high-performance solutions for complex production environments. John's focus in developing Optiant's solution is to equip customers with the tools to identify the key issues impeding optimal supply chain performance. His approach helps companies pinpoint the most significant data, which in turn drives results, improves accuracy and increases the profitability of the supply chain. John wrote the initial versions of Optiant's software, including the core algorithms and interface. His expertise in operations research techniques includes optimization and queuing, which are applicable to inventory management and other critical supply chain problems.
Earlier in his career, John worked at Kenan Systems Corporation and as a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Bell Labs, which acquired Kenan. There, he managed an engineering team that created a revolutionary design tool for generating bill formats as part of an award-winning enterprise-class billing software system. The application dramatically reduced the time required to customize clients' bill formats with easy-to-use report design tools, eliminating thousands of dollars in consulting services costs. He also was a senior systems architect for Mascot Networks, the higher-education enterprise portal, where he redesigned the core database and middle-tier architecture, improving stability and performance as the Mascot network expanded to more than 100 schools.
John earned a Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard College. | 