Sixteen years as a finance professional — including fifteen at AWS and Amazon — with a foundation in accounting and international business, and specialized certifications in construction and real estate finance.
Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)
Specialized training in construction accounting, project-cost management, draw schedules, and the financial controls that keep development projects on budget and audit-ready.
Corporate Finance Institute (CFI)
Formal grounding in real-estate valuation methods — income, cost, and sales-comparison approaches — to support underwriting, capital planning, and investment decisions.
Michael G. Foster School of Business
Graduate Certificate in Accounting — advanced study in financial and managerial accounting.
Walker College of Business
B.S. in International Business with a minor in German — graduated Magna Cum Laude.
What colleagues and leaders are saying about us.
John played a key role as the Subject Matter Expert on complex, business-impacting automation across AWS Infrastructure Finance, Accounting, and Business. He is a key contributor in reducing risk to unblock innovations, with excellent communication and leadership skills — he works effortlessly to make Finance more efficient and effective through automation.
It was an honor working alongside John for 2 years at AWS supporting server infrastructure procurement and financial forecasting. He excels at creating and maintaining complex financial models so business partners and finance leaders could understand problems they otherwise wouldn't discover. John is willing to speak up for what is better for the team.
I had the pleasure to work with John on various large-scale fixed-asset automation programs solving some of the most challenging customer needs in AWS infrastructure. His organized and structured approach brought the program back on track and earned our customers' trust. He is an extremely collaborative, hard-working self-starter with a very tactful approach to solving complex problems.
I had the pleasure working with John since 2019 as part of the Global Data Center Infrastructure Finance team. John was a force of nature in driving high standards in Infra, cutting waste and improving processes — all while navigating COVID-19, lockdowns, high inflation, and the fallout from the invasion of Ukraine. I especially enjoyed his passion to raise the bar and share knowledge across our finance community.
John works with passion and perseverance on every goal he takes. He is a true Amazonian, exemplifying the Leadership Principles of Ownership, Customer Obsession, Insist on the Highest Standards, and Bias for Action.
While studying with John at Appalachian State, he showed superior effort and reliability on group projects, and was very helpful tutoring in Economics, Finance, and German. John is reliable, very outgoing, works very well with people, and is an outstanding person who strives to put his full attention and effort into succeeding no matter how hard the task.
