John is the Director of Outreach for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning. His main responsibilities include recruiting universities and university professors worldwide into the OpenCourseWare movement, and promoting/supporting the use of eduCommons--an open source, OpenCourseWare Management System. John is also a Ph.D. student in Utah State University's Instructional Technology department.

Prior to joining COSL and USU, John worked for almost 7 years as an employee of Microsoft Corporation, in Redmond, WA. At Microsoft, John served in various capacities, including Business Manager to S. Somasegar (Vice President of the Developer Division), Speech Writer to Orlando Ayala (Group Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Marketing, and Services), and Director of Evangelism for Speech Technologies (under Kai-Fu Lee, now at Google). John also served as Director of the "DemosRUs" team within Microsoft, where he oversaw the creation of product demos for the worldwide sales force, and presented demos on stage with Steve Ballmer, Kevin Johnson, Jeff Raikes, and several other Microsoft executives.

Prior to Microsoft, John spent an additional 5 years in the software and consulting industries, including stints at: Bain & Company, Arthur Andersen, and consulting engagements with Arthur Andersen, Citicorp, the John Nuveen Company, Heidrick & Struggles , and the LDS Church.

John graduated summa cum laude and with University Honors from BYU with a BA in Political Science in 1993.