Graduated from the University of McGill in 1995 with a focus in GIS and Remote Sensing. John worked for three years with a geomatics company in Bogota, Colombia. Following Colombia, he worked for seven years based in Ottawa for PCI Geomatics, working with the remote sensing market in Latin American, South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East. For the last seventeen years, he has been the Canadian Sales Director for Maxar with its headquarters in Westminster, Colorado.