John leads the Lifecycle Automation team at Scholastic, Inc. in New York City. He specializes in infrastructure, systems, and application deployment automation. During his last three years at Scholastic, he has progressed the infrastructure architecture from bare metal with little automation, to a fully automated hybrid cloud design, featuring Amazon Web Services, VMWare, and Chef. Prior to Scholastic, John worked with various organizations in areas including infrastructure design and operations, and Linux and Windows systems administration.