From John’s military days as part of the Submarine force and Deep Submergence Special Projects, a systematic transformational and intuitive (Transcendent) approach was created by John which has been proven time and time again to produce repeatable results across many markets and industries.  Over two decades this approach has evolved into the TYIIR System©, an Intuitive Transformational or Transcendent Leadership System, “Transforming Your Ideas Into Reality” (TYIIR).  Below are just a few of the transformations regarding John’s ability to consistently achieve successful results.

Transformations

John is working with a variety of organizations from Fortune 100 and global industry leaders to entrepreneurs and government agencies, to understand, define, lead and/or mentor the transformation of their culture, mindset, people, data, process (flow), tools to evolve (“modernize”) their operations from traditional / waterfall to dynamic.  Basically, how to survive and compete in today’s global dynamic world.  This includes DevOps / DevSecOps adoption, Digital Transformations, Agile / SAFe, Lean to name a few high visibility business critical initiatives.  To facilitate these transformations, John is working with educational institutions like SoftEd and standards organizations like DASA (DevOps Agile Standards Association) on developing curriculum, teaching experiential learning based programs, certifications and workshops on Transformational Leadership, Agile, and DevOps / DevSecOps… what and how to succeed or be the best at flowing value to your customer

John has been and continues to lead and help others lead their organization in defining, developing and operationalizing industry leading disruptive technologies, including Cloud, which have hard deadlines.  One example of success was achieved as these products and services were developed and deployed in time for the announcements to be made at re:Invent as well as meeting their operational demands

Responsible for leading the global cloud modernization program, externally worked with customer executives and decision makers, sales and product while internally integrating development, cyber security, operations, service delivery and support’s people, process, tools and technology (DevOps) into a seamless delivery platform to sell, deliver and support products, solutions and services for the world’s leading organizations and governments

John worked with senior executives to update and evolve the Transition and Transformation customer facing program for managing global implementations and deployments.  Once the updated tools and processes were documented, John was sent into the field to be hands on with customers, putting the new practices into place.  Two of these transformations were General Dynamics and the Nissan’s US Headquarters

Working with one of his mentors, John preformed a transformation at Netegrity by evolving the industry leadership position and global posture of SiteMinder, a SSO (Single Sign On) technology.  Part of this effort involved a presenting in Tokoyo, Japan to Leading System Integrators.  CA acquired Netegrity and SiteMinder

Four spears of influence were defined as part of the strategy for ICF Consulting to become ICF International.  One of those spears of influence was the GIS (Geo spacial Information Systems) technology initiative.  John worked cross-functionally with executives, GIS leaders, regional business leaders and policy division leaders to define and implement the GIS technology initiative. As the initiative was being completed, the Company Transformation Officer commented on the brilliance of the plan and how effective buy-in was achieved by John’s efforts

A 22M high visibility program was under scrutiny by an Admiral after falling behind in productivity and schedule.  Compounding the tension was congressional oversight.  John was handpicked by the Captain to join the leadership team and transform the program.  With-in one year, the program’s biggest challenger became the strongest supporter, 3M was saved in the budget, 6 months schedule was made up, testing and operational fleet certification occurred on-time.  The end result was the program’s system becoming a Navy Standard for many years.

A submarine’s strength is based on how silent it can run.  John was appointed lead of the Submarine Sound Silencing and Quality Assurance Programs for the USS Birmingham SSN-695, a Los Angeles Class fast attack submarine coming out of shipyard.  As a Sonar Technician and one of a few on board with advanced systems training nick named “Super Techs”, John and the Super Techs were responsible for the operational maintenance and reliability of the submarine’s sonar suite, the submarines eyes and ears.  The USS Birmingham achieved the highest marks for silence and its Sonar System was rated in the top 3 of the Seventh Fleet out of Pearl Harbor.