John is currently Head of IT and Data Center Operations at AdvancedMD.  John was previously the Director of Cloud Architecture as well as the Director of Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com.  John has spoken at numerous industry events on topics related to DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Agile Development, and Testing, including two previous DevOps Days events.  He co-founded, with Jez Humble, FlowCon, the conference for continuous design, data, and delivery.  John was also on the inaugural program committee for Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit.  He was featured in the 2013 PwC Technology Forecast article DevOps:  Solving the engineering productivity challenge. John has more than 28 years of software development experience working for such companies as IBM, Corel, Callware Technologies, Control4, OneGreatFamily.com, and Ancestry. His spare time is gobbled up by his beautiful wife, four sons, reading lots of books, and fly-fishing on the Provo River.