I have grown tired of watching technology projects across the Federal Government, The Department of Defense and the corporate / enterprise world continue to take too long, cost too much or fail altogether. I maintain there is so much that our government / enterprise clients can learn by mirroring the way start-up companies build and deploy technologies to deploy fast, learn what works, iterate and wow their users. Keeping one foot in DC and one foot in Silicon Valley, 540 is hell bent on helping clients move past the failures and glacial pace of enterprise technology projects and begin building, learning and deploying value producing tech in record time. Just trying to #getshitdone.

Founder @ Technology consulting geeks who help government and business clients innovate like start-ups. Mission Working to inject a little Silicon Valley tech into the Federal Government / Department of Defense... crazy huh? Description What if your agency or department could deliver technology solutions that wow your users at the same speed that start-up companies deliver capabilities to the internet? Tech Strategy Software Development API Design / Dev Data Analytics (I hate saying the word BigData) DevOps We also maintain and support various open projects: Fed {API} - Government data in easy to consume APIs. http://fedapi.com yourTwapperkeeper - Open source Twitter archiving tool (an oldie but a goodie recently upgraded to handle V1.1 of Twitter API - though it needs a major UI facelift). https://github.com/540co/yourTwapperKeeper From March 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaFounder @ There is so much government data across the internet, but it is difficult to make sense of it all. Budget data, procurement data, acquisition data, you name it, it's out there on the web. Using crawlers, algorithms, crowdsourcing, and sometimes brute force - we capture, correlate, and expose government data to enterprise and government application developers through easy to use APIs. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Director of Technology Services @ Responsible for managing and delivering the technology projects to our Federal and commercial clients ranging from the development of custom web / mobile applications to the implementation of COTS products (ERP, BI, etc). Often focused on showing the art of the possible leveraging emerging technologies even when our clients aren't ready and it makes them uncomfortable. (I want them to know what is possible and how to get there!) Promote the use of agile development and delivery processes to deliver fast, learn fast, and iterate fast. Constantly looking for ways to improve the usability and interoperability of the capabilities we are delivering. From October 2010 to March 2013 (2 years 6 months) Founder @ (Acquired by HootSuite Media, Inc September 2011. Acted as a consultant thru integration period.) A weekend science project to learn the Twitter API that evolved into a grant funded web start-up, TwapperKeeper was a Twitter application that allowed users to archive, organize, and analyze tweets based upon #hashtags, keywords, and @persons. Used heavily by academic organizations, conference leaders, and marketing departments to track, monitor, and analyze Twitter traffic. Exposed API for third party applications to leverage archive engine for extraction and analysis (removed at the request of Twitter due to ToS). Released yourTwapperKeeper (http://your.twapperkeeper.com), an open version of the platform, in August 2010 to allow user to host their own archiving service. Project is maintained at https://github.com/jobrieniii/yourTwapperKeeper. Personally responsible for all aspects of development, support, and marketing. Company Info at Crunchbase: http://bit.ly/uLiNkr Press mentions: 10 Ways to Archive Tweets http://rww.to/vaYVqc Mashable's Top 20 for Improving Twitter Experience http://on.mash.to/snkxEQ Twitter for Dummies http://bit.ly/vXUtJk JISC Grant Funding (2010) http://bit.ly/tU7aGC When Twitter Got Mad (Twitter ToS Issues) (2011) http://bit.ly/hhf8O3 (WebProNews Video Interview) http://rww.to/ibCGfH (Read Write Web) http://bit.ly/gLD0Ug (PC Magazine) Acquisition by Hootsuite (2011) http://tcrn.ch/sOp8Dc http://bit.ly/u1unsu From July 2009 to January 2012 (2 years 7 months) Special Assistant to the Agency Director @ Recruited into a term appointment within the DoD as one of the first Highly Qualified Expert (HQE) appointees under a Congressional program established to attract experts with state-of-the-art knowledge in fields of emerging importance to the Department. Hired specifically to lead IT business transformation priorities within DoD with focus on defining and evolving technical architectures of enterprise applications. Under current role, responsible for leading high profile projects at direction of agency director. Current focus is on transforming the way DoD does procurement leveraging emerging ERP platforms by: - “federalizing” Oracle's Advanced Procurement / iSupplier capabilities to support DoD procurement and supplier invoicing - prototyping a supplier facing portal to provide visibility across n-number of ERPs and single sign from portal to ERPs From June 2008 to September 2010 (2 years 4 months) Co-founder @ A Facebook Verified App and Top 50 Fbfund winner that enabled users to setup group buys for products they wanted to buy and allowed vendors to bid on the team's business (think: aggregate spend + reverse auction). Responsible for development, deployment, and marketing of application on top of Facebook platform. Looked good on paper. Got some buzz. But forgot to really engage with the customers and learn early. And Groupon was better. We simply didn't learn and pivot fast enough. Eric Ries would roll his eyes. Made decision to shut-down at end of December 2009. Painful learning experience. But you learn so much by failing, right? Company information - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twangu What was Twangu? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23315993/2-TWANGU_Presentation.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFo1NJyTu08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFy9UbTXeYM Press mentions: CNN - http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/16/online.shopping.china/ WSJ / SmartMoney - http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/deals/strength-in-numbers-scoring-a-group-deal/ Top-50 Finalist in Facebook's Venture fbFund 2009 - http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=249 http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=84440649573 From July 2008 to December 2009 (1 year 6 months) Program Executive Officer, Enterprise DOD Supply Chain Systems @ Led implementation of custom developed enterprise sourcing and supply chain business systems to support DoD procurement and interface between suppliers / vendors. Managed $70M annual budget and over 200 employees. - Drove evolution to leverage SOA for emerging business capabilities to standardize integrations, minimize point-to-point interfaces, and lower integration costs. - Developed and published repeatable methodology for rationalizing capabilities and technologies to be implemented within DoD’s corporate layer, focusing on ensuring proper mix of centralized and decentralized IT capabilities. - Led strategy and implementation of sourcing business intelligence (BI) capabilities to provide decision support to Department’s procurement executives. From March 2007 to June 2008 (1 year 4 months) Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer @ Managed investment and technology decisions, including applications, services, and networks. Responsible for all technology decisions for DoD enterprise business systems and ensuring secure operations of BTA owned networks / systems and enterprise DoD systems. Managed $10M annual budget and headcount of 25 people. - Established and led establishment of agency information security certification & accreditation team ensuring secure operations of DoD enterprise business systems. - Led Air Force and Navy technology assessment and cost / schedule base-lining for custom Human Resources System program designed to support more than 2.5M users, subsume 50+ legacy systems, and interface with more than 150 external and legacy systems. - Implemented lean IT operations team by eliminating non-value added processes and reducing overall IT labor cost by 50%, freeing additional resources for other DoD transformation initiatives. From November 2005 to March 2007 (1 year 5 months) Senior Delivery Manager @ Sold and managed service delivery and product solutions to improve and streamline engineering & supply chain processes and systems. - Provided global support for JDS Uniphase Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, ensuring compliance with SLA, implementing ITIL processes, and ensuring engagement profitability. From 2004 to 2005 (1 year) Senior IT Manager @ Managed development and deployment of PLM and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) processes and systems. Chartered with improving collaboration and effectiveness of global design community and internal / external manufacturing parties. - Deployed secure B2B portal to communicate with contract manufacturers and suppliers, providing real-time access to engineering data throughout product lifecycle, improving data timeliness from 2-3 days to ~1 hour. - Implemented system capabilities and controls to ensure auditable corporate compliance with governmental export regulations for technologies of national security interest. - Developed and deployed PLM web and file replication architecture improving end-user UI performance by 50-90% and increasing speed of engineering file data access by 10-60X. - Introduced and executed various in-sourcing and out-sourcing hosting and support strategies to ensure efficient operations. Reduced annual operating costs by $1.5M in Year 1 and an additional 25% in Year 3. From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Manager @ Sold and managed implementation for engineering design and process management solutions across numerous verticals. Engagements focused on process reengineering, software configuration & customization, and deployment. - Managed two-year implementation of Matrix One PLM solution for JDS Uniphase within $8M budget. Deployed and architected centrally hosted solution to facilitate engineering and manufacturing collaboration in support of new product introduction, engineering change processes and lifecycle of bill of materials / drawings / specifications. Implemented solution across 15 global sites (2000+ users) and integrated with corporate ERP and design tools. From 2000 to 2002 (2 years) Senior Consultant @ Managed implementation and deployment of PTC’s product development and product data management software at customers’ sites. Focused on engineer-to-order / assemble-to-order and data management solutions. - Engaged over 50+ customers to implement software, ensuring appropriate business process reengineering, rapid ROI, and thorough knowledge transfer to users and administrators. Primary customers included Harris Corporation, General Motors, Silicon Valley Lithography, Paccar (Peterbilt / Kenworth), Timberjack and Airtran Airlines. From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Design Engineer @ Designed custom emergency vehicles, including fire trucks and airport rescue vehicles, to support new product offerings and custom requirements. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years)

Masters, Business Administration @ University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business From 2006 to 2008 BS, Mechanical Engineering @ University of Florida From 1990 to 1995 John III is skilled in: Integration, Strategy, Program Management, Agile Methodologies, DoD, APIs, Enterprise Software, Business Development, Start-ups, Mobile Applications, IT Strategy, SOA, Management, E-commerce, PHP