John Gordon

Current

Chief Architect at Devicescape Software, Inc.

Past

Systems Architect at Devicescape Software, Inc.
Senior Member of Technical Staff at Wind River Systems
Senior Development Engineer at Racal Radar Defence Systems

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Education

University of Kent
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)
Whitgift School, Croydon

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John Gordon’s Summary

John Gordon’s Specialties:

Software system architecture, web services, mobile, device, web 2.0, mobile 2.0, Wi-Fi, wireless networking, operating systems, embedded systems, real time systems, VxWorks, Linux, BSD, AJAX, PHP, Apache, MODx, MySQL.

John Gordon’s Experience

Chief Architect

Devicescape Software, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — Present (10 months)

As the Chief Architect, John is responsible for making sure that the entire suite of Devicescape's products fit together at a technical level, especially the hotspot login service and its associated device-based application. John continues to support the sales and marketing organizations with technical presentations, visits to customers and appearances at technology events. And he continues to answer consumer questions, and troubleshoot their problems through the Devicescape forums.
Systems Architect

Devicescape Software, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

June 2003 — October 2007 (4 years 5 months)

At Devicescape (formerly Instant802 Networks), John took on various responsibilities ranging from building the infrastructure that allowed rapid porting of the company's SMB access point platform to new platforms, through managing projects to inventing and building a novel, patent-pending, public hotspot login technology for mobile devices. Additionally, John is also responsible for technical presentations to prospective customers, and troubleshooting issues for customers who experience problems. With the launch of the hotspot login service, that role expanded to include direct-to-consumer support through Devicescape's forum system.
Senior Member of Technical Staff

Wind River Systems

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2003 (5 years)
Senior Development Engineer

Racal Radar Defence Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

August 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 4 months)

Software development engineer working on a number of electronic warfare systems for deployment with the Royal Navy. Responsible for software architecture on a multi-CPU signal processor, board bring up for custom hardware (including VxWorks BSPs and drivers). Involved in project from initial design through to acceptance, including factory test, harbour tests and sea trials.

John Gordon’s Education

University of Kent

BEng.(Hons), Computer Systems Engineering (Informatics - French), 1989 — 1993
Université Paris Sud (Paris XI)

Licence, Informatique, 1991 — 1992
Whitgift School, Croydon

Maths, Physics, Chemistry, CS 1981 — 1988