John is the Executive Director of Technology at Smart Design and his background is in software development, hardware engineering, data science and product design. Recently, he has been the project director on the award-winning Gatorade Gx platform (which includes the Gx Sweat Patch and Smart Bottle) that mixes software, IoT, data science and biomedical engineering. Currently, John oversees a product and engineering team that’s building an IoT platform for a startup attempting to lower consumer food waste through machine learning, sensing and computer vision. John is also a technical advisor at NYU Stern and speaks regularly on how designers and engineers can create experiences for people with accessibility needs.