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• John L.  Hearton, Chief Technology Officer

  

  With over 20 years of operational experience, John is a veteran in the development and management of information technology.  As a founder of WareOnEarth Communications, Inc., he initiated a service based enterprise for Information Assurance that became nationally ranked among IA corporations.  He has brought his experience from WCI to Secure Mission Solutions, providing state-of-the-art Information Assurance services to Defense supercomputing facilities and other Government programs. 

  John is a representative member of the Joint Engineering Team and the Hawaiian Intranet Consortium and provides technical advisory support to the Department of Defense Research & Development Network for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense Research and Engineering and other agencies on leading edge technologies such as MLS, IPv6 and Cloud Computing.

  Previously, John was with legacy organization Allied Signal, now Honeywell International, where he was responsible for IA services and the transition of leading edge technologies to the market.  John was responsible for managing programs in excess of $150 million and was appointed to Allied Signal’s leadership council.  He was also a managing consultant for Vision Technologies and NETSEC Consulting where he was responsible for market research, analysis and prototype development for advanced technologies now being used by EPRI and space applications used by the DoD. 

  As supervisor of computer technical support for Circuit City Stores corporate headquarters, John was responsible for managing an $80 million annual budget and supervising and monitoring technical support and data analysis, the development of a computer acceleration program for peripheral integrations, vendor relations, and maintenance of various database systems on UNIX based HP9000’s.

  John holds a bachelors degree in Economics and Marketing from George Mason University.