John is a Identity Domain expert in the Alexandria, VA office of Protiviti Government Services. He also serves as Kantara’sLeadership Council Co-chair & Federation Interoperability Work Group Chair.  John has been active with Kantara since it’s inception.

As an experienced IT professional with a diverse background, John has been co-authoring the ICAM protocol profiles at Protiviti Government Services.  He has also been coordinating interoperability testing on the profiles with OASIS and Trust Framework partners from industry.  John has contributed to SAML, openID, Information Card (IMI), XRI and other identity standards.  He is actively working to develop the next version of openID.

John is originally from Canada and lives in Chile.  You can read more about John and follow his work on his blog page here: http://www.thread-safe.net/