John Crockett

My Life and Times!

Career Highlights

Conceived, built, managed, and sold the most respected turn-key custom-software development firm in Phoenix.

Designed, implemented, and maintained various systems, including:

  • The system used by a major credit card company to combat a problem costing approx. $4 billion in lost revenue per year.  The system increased unit productivity by over 1,500%, enabling the company to recapture nearly half of the lost revenue.
  • The three systems used by the State of Arizona to track, license, and administer disciplinary actions for all doctors, nurses, and real estate agents/brokers in the state.
  • The system used by Phelps/Dodge Mining Company to track its construction projects and vendors.
  • The system used by the State of Missouri to track trends in employment, business start-ups, and bankruptcies.

Participated in the design, planning and implementation of a 55,000-node credit card terminal network (in 1985).  All terminals dialed local numbers into a VAN, then routed to a Tandem Non-Stop fault tolerant processor array in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In 1988 (when PC-based projects of this scope were unheard of), designed and supervised the implementation of a 450-desktop network, spanning 24 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico with connections to two IBM mainframes.  The network grew to over 1700 desktops in two years, without requiring any major changes to NOS or topology.  This project merited a feature story in PCWeek - Connectivity for its cutting edge implementation.