John’s #1 priority as Federal CTO is to ensure the whole of Riverbed is focused on ensuring our Federal customers achieve mission success with Riverbed products and services. John is a multi-disciplined IT Professional with over 30 years experience in Performance Engineering and related IT disciplines across a wide variety of Global Enterprise customers and industries. As Federal CTO, John brings his extensive industry experience and insights from Private sector to collaboratively engage with his DoD, Civilian, and IC peers on strategies and best practices proven to improve IT Service quality and stakeholder satisfaction. John is an expert in full stack observability, technology adoption, performance troubleshooting and has been a major contributor to Riverbed’s break through products for AiOps and Intelligent Automation. John has direct interaction with Riverbed Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Partners to represent, and help drive, customer requirements for features / functions that are critical to ongoing mission success.