User:Jjanwari/John Janwari

John Janwari Born in 1974, was raised by his adoptive mother Susan. John lived most of his early childhood life in Kansas, USA. His undergraduate degrees were in Electrical Engineering (1995) and Computer Science (1996), he also completed two MS degrees (EE & CS) in 1997-98. He started his first job as Digital Circuit Design Engineer at NCR. His first programming job was at Sulcus Computer Company in Wichita, Kansas.

He was promoted to become Senior Software Engineer at Sulcus within few months. His specialty was the interface programming between DOS based Lanmark System (Property Management System) and Third Party Hardware/Software Vendors such as Key Lock Systems, Credit Card Readers, Movies on Demand Systems, PABX, Energy Saving Systems ETC. His talent was noticed by Eltrax System and he was asked to lead a team of developers to create Next Generation of Windows Based Property Management System. John led a team of 10 top notch developers to develop World's first MS Windows Based Property Management System "MEDALLION". He designed and implemented Medallion Property Management Software. Medallion was introduced at Cornell University and purchased by Encore Systems. Medallion was sold for US $ 20 Million in 1999. At the same time he was made member of the infrastructure committee of XML for HITIS.

In 2000, he started Consulting e-Commerce Companies and became IT Consultant. He worked as Consultant for Triumph Air Repair on C-17 Tank Air Force Project. Boeing and Honeywell were partners in this project, ended up Consulting Boeing and Honeywell on C-17 Project as well. Because of this project Triumph Air Repair got edge over the competitors resulting in its acquiring US $ 60 Million C-17 Project.

He also Consulted and worked for PetsMart, Best Software, American Express and Microsoft at Director Level and Vice President for very short time.

In 2002 he joined in partnership a small startup company Wireless Retail Inc, with five employees, distributing cell phones. He was the Chief Architect of the JIT, POS, Inventory and Reconciliation Software’s that helped this business model to make US$ 10 Million within few months. The Company grew faster than light to 5000 employees and its revenues were US$ 388 Million in 2005. RadioShack took over this company for some undisclosed amount of money, speculation is that it was around US$ 500 Million.

He took a break after the selling out of WRI, In December 2006, he started few seed companies in US and India.