John Young is an executive level technologist with over 35 years of experience in technical leadership and team building, solution architecture and innovation, requirements research and analysis, systems and software design as well as taking new software products and solutions to market. For the past 8 years, Mr. Young has performed the role of independent advisor to the CIOs of the IRS, DHS and PBGC providing technical oversight and guidance across the entire IT spectrum and at every level of the software and systems engineering lifecycle. Prior to that, Mr. Young was the CTO of Oracle Financial Services, Mantas, Reveleus and SRA International. Mr. Young started his career as a systems and communications software engineer for the US Air Force and Honeywell after earning degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland.