Developed courses and workshops that he held for many schools on topics including improv, acting, art, game design, and digital processes. Ran improv and theater workshops at Penn State Beaver and served as coach and judge for the Geneva College One Act Play Competition. Taught web design at C.C.B.C. and also held art and theater classes in its continuing education dept.

Currently Special Faculty at The Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. There he teaches Entertainment Technology, Visual Story, Immersive Media Pre Production, 360 Story and Sound, animation, pipeline process, UI/UX, brainstorming and playtesting, and team management.

Alice is a block-based programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3D. John has been a part of Alice's events for middle school students. He designed and held workshops on storyboarding and creating strong narrative experiences in games.

Taught art classes at Boscov's Community Theater, developed and held after school sessions for numerous Beaver County schools, and worked with other organizations such as Adult Literacy Action, Aliquippa Embraces the Arts, Rochester Chamber of Commerce, and Sweetwater Center For The Arts, to help foster and support the arts.

Created and taught classes in art, theater, and writing for all ages at The Outlet for Creativity, inc., a non-profit dedicated to fostering and supporting the Arts.

Member on multiple committees helping to organize and run many events including: The Beaver County International Arts Festival, Beaver County Riverfest, Aliquippa Embraces the Arts, Cause for the Paws, etc...

Volunteer and Community Development

Served on the board of the Rochester Community Development Corporation for 7 years. He denoated his time and talents to promote organizations and causes including: Habitat for Humanity, Old Economy Village, American Cancer Society, American Diabetis Association, The Beaver County Humane Society, Adult Literacy Action, Bridge to Recovery, Beaver County Chamber of Commerce, etc...

Artworks Cultural Alliance

Developed and held Beaver County Cultural Summits which ended up resulting in the formation of Artwroks Cultural Alliance, a non-profit to help organize and promote Arts organizations throughout the Beaver County area.

Organized hundreds of events during his time as program manager at The Outlet for Creativity, inc. including fundraisers, street parties, haunted trails, concerts, cultural summits, holiday events, contests, etc...

The M.A.D. House is an interactive, animated series and collaborative Arts playground. Set for release in early 2022.

Jam-A-Looper is an online, collaborative, asyncronous jam session for musicians. This product is a latency workaround that allows musicians to interact with each other and co-create music remotely during the same creative sessions. Set for release in late 2021.

Languages: C#, Javascript, Java, PHP, SQL, Python

Software: Unity, Blender, Maya, 3D Max, DAWs, Adobe Suite, etc...