John Ellis Biography

John Ellis is a technical and visionary featured speaker, author, software specialist, and Ford Motor Company's Head of the Ford Developer Program. Ellis' team produced a number of automotive industry firsts as the Global Technologist and Head of the Ford Developer Program, including SmartDeviceLink, the open-source version of Ford's award-winning AppLink technology. The Zero Dollar Car: How the Revolution in Big Data Will Change Your Life was inspired by his work in the sector. He has been the general manager of the industry consulting business Ellis & Associates for the past 19 years. John was most lately at Ford Motor Company as a Global Technologist and Head of the Ford Developer Program. John's team was responsible for a number of firsts in the automotive industry, including SmartDeviceLink, an open-source version of Ford's award-winning AppLink technology that connects brought-in devices to vehicles and was the forerunner to Google, Apple, and MirrorLink technologies, and developer.ford.com, Ford's developer program with over 10,000 unique and global content providers. John's team also designed and developed a service delivery network from the bottom up, which helped drive the MyFordMobile product to award-winning prominence. John spent most of his career at Motorola, where he held important leadership positions in engineering, product management, software, and services, as well as marketing and strategy. John worked on Motorola's mobile software and services, as well as their software developer environment (developer.motorola.com) and industry-leading Open Source Software initiative, while at Motorola (opensource.motorola.com). John has been the managing director of Ellis & Associates for the past 19 years. Founded as a boutique training organization specializing in international business and culture, the firm currently serves customers in industries such as automotive, consumer goods, networking, and software. As the creator and lead instructor of the Society of Automotive Engineers' Connected Vehicle Professional certificate course, John is frequently called upon as a software expert for interviews, keynotes, and boards to consult digital security and the new business models that traditional "ship and forget" industries like automotive companies must adopt in order to become "ship and remember" companies. From 2002 until 2010, John worked as an adjunct professor at Notre Dame University, teaching financial math to Executive MBA students, and as a translator for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

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