He joined Cisco in 2000 and has been responsible for driving innovative solutions across Cisco’s extensive technology portfolio in many verticals including Financial Service, Transportation, Retail, and Government. Prior to Cisco John was an Enterprise Architect at Tandem Computers Canada, a leader in Online Transaction Processing Systems. While at Tandem John was responsible for the design, testing, and deployment of large scale Online Payment Processing, Fraud Control, and Data Warehousing systems.