As CIO of Weather Insight, John leads a seasoned team of IT professionals on a quest to deliver timely, innovative solutions to Weather Insight’s base of energy clients and financial markets. www.WeatherInsight.com  John has enjoyed a distinguished 35 year technology career that started with Continental Airlines in 1970.  John also worked with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, DHL, Panalpina and Pilot Air, where he served in executive management positions prior to joining the Air Routing Group in 1993. www.AR-Group.com   



An early pioneer of PC technology, John architected generations of weather systems for Air Routing Group companies that currently stream in tens of gigabytes of raw weather data every 24 hours into multiple data centers and maintain terabytes of archived weather databases with online global weather observations that date back over 100 years. Air Routing Group is a vertical Internet Service Provider and online Application Service Provider hosting several thousand customized client interactive web sites for Wilkens Weather Technologies, www.WilkensWeather.com Airmet Aviation Weather, www.Airmet.com  ASI Group, www.asigroup.com  and AirFuel www.AirFuel.com

John designed the data centers and global communications infrastructure, which serve as the backbone for Air Routing Flight Operations handling tens of thousands of corporate jet flights each year. www.AirRouting.com  John is one of the patent inventors of Air Routing’s award winning online Flight Manager program used by corporate flight crews to wirelessly manage all aspects of their global trips online. www.FlightManager.com  During John’s tenure as CIO, the Air Routing Group companies became technology market leaders, producing innovative, enterprise class applications and web sites for the weather, energy, aviation and security vertical markets.

John is a Microsoft Certified Partner, member of the Association of Information Technology Professionals, Project Management Institute (PMI), Document Management Association, the FBI’s Infragard, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and is listed in the International Who’s Who of IT Professionals.  John also served as a business technology advisor to the National Congressional Committee and as a technology speaker for Inc. 500 and AITP.