John Blackmon
ABOUT ME

John Blackmon

Co-Founder, CEO, and Chief Technology Officer, Trivantis Corporation

 

As Chief Technology Officer for Trivantis Corporation, John is responsible for all aspects of development and strategy for the company’s eLearning products. John is the original developer the Lectora product line, which is the flagship product of the company.

 

Prior to joining Trivantis, John was Co-Founder and Lead Engineer at BocaSoft, a company that created various software utilities for the OS/2 operating system. John began his career at Electronic Data Systems, where he designed a number of automatic identification systems using various technologies for plant floor applications. John then spent time at IBM, working on plant floor data collection, and then design work on the OS/2 operating system. At IBM, John was awarded a patent for his work on seamlessly running Windows applications under the OS/2 operating system.

 

John regularly speaks at various eLearning industry events on topics ranging from xAPI to VR, and has a patent pending on his work for Responsive Course Design.

 

John received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.