Current: Senior Director of Design, Trimble Platform, Aug 2023 - present: Responsible for the Trimble User Experience group, leading Design across Trimble’s four sectors (Construction, Agriculture, Transportation, and Geospatial) and the commercial interfaces that bind them together.
Previous: Interim Faculty Director, Undergraduate Programs Aug 2022 - July 2023
Previous: VP of User Software for PassiveLogic, a Salt Lake City-based startup working towards general autonomy for building control systems.
Prior to PassiveLogic, John was the VP of Product Management for Trimble's Construction Sector, where his portfolio of products included SketchUp—the world's most widely used 3D modeling tool. John worked for almost twenty years on SketchUp, a simple but powerful digital sketching tool for architects, designers, and all kinds of people who make things. SketchUp has won numerous awards, including "3D Product of the Year" and a "5 Mice" rating from Macworld Magazine. In the last year alone, there have been over 30 million unique user activations of SketchUp on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Web, and a range of XR device platforms—making it arguably the most widely used 3D modeling product in the world.
Prior to SketchUp, John was a professional design consultant working on a wide range of architectural and urban design projects in both Europe and the U.S. He holds a BArch from The Cooper Union and an MArch from Rice University. John's first book, "Digital Sketching: Computer-aided Conceptual Design" was published by Wiley in 2020.