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JOHN TIBBETTS John Tibbetts is a software architect, theorist, and working developer. He has spent most of his 30-year career helping enterprises and software vendors articulate and implement coherent, principled frameworks for their applications. He helps technical architecture teams as they come to strategic decisions and works hands-on with development groups. He is especially good at making complex technical issues comprehensible to senior management. John is the founder of Kinexis, an 18-year-old consulting firm. He is also a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture practice. Through Cutter, he has spoken and written extensively about BPM, SOA, error-handling, UI architecture, and RIAs.
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This past year, clients have included FDIC, the United Nations, DTEEnergy, Cisco Systems, and startups in the RFID and medical records areas. He has, on occasion, performed technical due diligence for VC firms and testified as an expert witness in software malpractice litigation. His special passion is the emerging category he calls "collaborative transactions." To this end, he has developed the WorkThru framework, a Java- based open-source platform that uses middle-tier objects to hold and manipulate individual pieces of long- running work-in-progress. He is the technical architect of the New Deal Art Registry, a Flex-based mashup. John Tibbetts holds a BA in Philosophy and Classical Languages from St. Louis University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Loyola Marymount University. |
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He began his career at Tymshare. He subsequently co-founded the Noesis Computing Company and Datalex, the first company devoted to using micro- computers as data entry workstations. During the dot-com era, he was Chief Technology Officer of the software startup ePropose, Inc. and subsequently of TreasuryX, a partnership between ePropose and the agribusiness giant Cargill. As co-writer of the "Tibbetts and Bernstein: Developments" column for six years, he was one of InformationWeek's featured contributors. He has written for Object Magazine, Distributed Computing, American Programmer, and many other technical publications. His book Building Cooperative Processing Applications was published by John Wiley & Sons, and a book surveying workflow alternatives is in the works. |
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