Artist description John is a software industry techno-whiz-kid-emeritius with a passion for music, mountain biking, skiing, sea kayaking, photography, astronomy, and other trouble.

Music Style Rock/Fusion/Alternative/High-Energy Electric Blues

Musical Influences Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Rush, Led Zep, Dave Mathews

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Artist History John Owen, b1961, Washington D.C. Grew up in Oak Grove, Oregon. Garage bands. Went into Air Force, some school at Ball State University, IN, then into top secret jobs for various US agencies overseas involving high-flying aircraft. 10 years in Silicon Valley high tech, most recently an engineering manager at Network Associates, Microsoft, and a director at an anti-virus company. Now goofing off on the Oregon coast and re-visiting ancient musical roots.

Group Members John Owen

Instruments Guitar (lead/rhythm), Bass, Vocals, Mandolin, Keyboards

Albums Ephiphany At Midlife Crisis Junction

Press Reviews Point and Click High Tech Consulting June 1, 2001. OCEANSIDE, Oregon – It all seemed so clear last year: Build it and they will come. New rules for a new economy. 10 slides, $10 million. A dot-com in every garage, a business plan on every napkin. The year ending March 2001 saw both major stock indices erase more than 2 years of value. And while software development and QA staffs have begun to evaporate, tech firms maintain aggressive business goals and production schedules. Welcome to the new era of the hired gun for software development and QA. The current state of the economy has forced many tech businesses to hold off hiring new staff. The workloads continue to increase as companies run faster to spin the profitability treadmill. Point and Click Consulting wraps up your software and hardware engineering technical and related hi-tech management tasks and delivers them to you, bundled with a bow on top. Most importantly we do it at low cost to you, giving you more time to focus on critical-path day-to-day issues key to your organizations success. Technical managers spend much of their time in meetings, coaching staff, working up solutions in real-time: in other words, doing management. View Point and Click as your individual contributing manager – not distracted by the real-time distractions you must face, adding senior technical management value (and vision), applying in-depth focus on the issues, giving them the mind-share they need and deserve. All you need to do is point to a task below, click, and approve. We’ll take it from there. Come see us at http://www.hiredgun.com. We can help. Are we experienced? Most of us have over 20 years of experience at notable firms including Microsoft, Network Associates, Fujitsu America, Unisys, GTE Government Systems, US Air Force, and many others. See Contact Information and Resume. We typically hire staff with at least 10 years of experience (though we do not overlook new talent with a passion for excellence in software development). Yes. We can help! http://www.hiredgun.com

Location Oceanside, Oregon - USA

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