John Warren

• From a small town called Kemptville in Ontario, Canada
• Moved to BC after time in Toronto and a 2 year jaunt in Chicago
• Chased the acting dream but jumped into technology after time in banking.
• A father of 2 wonderful boys, born in early 2007 & late 2011.
• Travelled mostly to Ireland (especially as a child, to see family), England, France, Vancouver Island, Washington State, Oregon, California and Mexico both alone and with family.
• Travelled around the US (Boston, Rhode Island, California, Pennsylvania, Utah, Texas, Ohio, ...) and Europe (Norway, England and Ireland) for work.

Memorable Moment; Landing in Pittsburgh for business just before 9/11 when so many lives were lost - and causing so much needless grief in such a selfish act. Facilitated several days of meetings at a utility company there during the attack. Finished meetings and drove back to Toronto to fly home (Vancouver) that Friday as air travel was still restricted.

Passionate about the open source movement - in all of it's flavours - especially as it relates to education. Compiled slackware Linux servers in the 90s but now live on Ubuntu.

Develop in Html5 (modularly) now, grounded in C, ASM, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, VB, scripting (bash, perl, sed, awk, sql, ...). Lots of dabbling otherwise and can often be found in stackoverflow, github, dd-wrt, salesforce, twitter, drupal, wordpress, ...

Never stop learning. It is amazing what is out there in TEDtalks, YouTube, Vimeo, ... . Books in print, kobo, kindle, audible. Vancouver is also a whistle stop for a number of road shows and information sessions - many of which are facilitated by the great people at @WavefrontAC. Last but not least, everyone out there has a depth of knowledge in one or more areas. Tapping into that is the motherload.

Synod delegate for a number of years within my Anglican parish, St John the Apostle in the Diocese of New Westminster. You may not always agree with the person sitting across the table from you but optimal production comes from learning and working together. Neither you nor they are always right. Strength is found in change. ... and listening past the emotion of 'being right'