about john
John co-founded Parthenon Computing Ltd and Embrace Mobile Ltd in Oxford, England. Parthenon provides software consultancy services to innovative companies that require research and development resources, whilst Embrace provides a mobile enablement platform for businesses that need to communicate with their customers and workforces.
Previously John founded the Berkeley DB XML project within Sleepycat Software. As the product was offered under a dual-source Open Source license, he also built a vibrant community around the project through speaking engagements, personal networking, and blogging. John was also an architect of the Netscape Directory Server, which has subsequently been adopted by Sun, AOL, RedHat, and HP as the foundation for their Identity Management Systems.
John holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Hertfordshire University.
John is also the Publications Officer of the ACCU, a non- profit organization dedicated to professionalism in software engineering.