John Fortin began their work experience in 1996 at Parity Americas, where they worked as a Systems Programmer. John was responsible for leading a project to migrate an IBM VM-based manufacturing system to an RS/6000-based system. In this role, they also designed a real-time data exchange model between Domino and DB2 using Lotus Enterprise Integrator.
From 2002 to 2011, John worked at PepsiCo as a BMC Software Packaging and Deployment Engineer and later as a Unix Systems Engineer. John was responsible for various tasks such as being the senior system administrator for AIX and HP-UX environments, leading the migration of large IBM Data Warehouses, and implementing VIO technology to reduce hardware and infrastructure footprint.
In 2012, John worked as a Unix Engineer at United Guaranty Corporation on a contract basis. John then joined PGTEK in 2013 as a Unix System Administrator, where they played a crucial role in migrating HP Itanium servers to HP Virtual Machines on HP Blade servers.
In 2013, John joined TEKsystems as an AIX Systems Administrator before moving to Delhaize America in 2014 as a Principal AIX/Unix Engineer.
In 2015, John worked at Catalina USA as a Middleware Systems Architect, and finally, they joined Market America, Inc. in 2016. At Market America, they initially served as a Senior Systems Engineer before being promoted to Senior Systems Architect in April 2020.
Note: The information does not provide details on the duration of John's roles at Delhaize America, TEKsystems, PGTEK, United Guaranty Corporation, and PepsiCo after their initial start date in 2002.
John Fortin completed their education history as follows:
From 1991 to 1995, they attended SUNY New Paltz, where they studied Engineering.
From 1987 to 1989, they obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
From 1983 to 1986, they attended Clarkson University, but no specific degree or field of study information is provided.
Additionally, they have obtained various certifications from Coursera, including "Data Visualization with Python" and "Python for Applied Data Science" in March 2019, "Deep Learning Specialization" in February 2018, "Data Science Specialization" in November 2017, and "Python for Everybody Specialization" in January 2017. There are three more certifications listed, but no specific information is provided regarding the month or year of their completion.
April, 2020 - present
October, 2016