John has been a software developer and engineer for over 20 years, primarily focused on developing innovative software products and solutions for the public safety sector.
For the past five years, in addition to his role as Vice President of Products and Services at DVG, John has been representing DVG as the lead search index software engineer on a large-scale, New York City-based, Microsoft public safety project. John is responsible for hundreds of servers and ensuring billions of records are available for search at all times.
Prior to his role at DVG, John spent 12 years growing a software product company from small start-up to an industry-leading company with over 400 public safety customers in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. John was the architect, designer and software developer for five of the company’s software products.
Early in John’s career, he spent six years as a law enforcement officer working in the agency’s Special Enforcement Unit conducting covert investigations. He also served as the unit’s computer administrator, managing/developing software and technologies for successful operation.
When not building software, John can be found coaching baseball and basketball for his two sons and cooking for friends and family.