John retired from the Food Safety And Inspection Headquarter’s staff in Washington D C in September 2000 after serving 31 years with the agency in several capacities. At the time of retirement he was the Deputy Director of the Office of Public Health & Science’s Recall Management Divison. As Deputy Director, John was responsible for management of the Staff Recall activities and coordination of field epidemiology efforts with the recall staff, Industry Officials, FSIS Enforcement personnel at Headquarters, State Health Officials, and Foreign government officials.

Prior to the Office of Public Health & Science position, John served as a Compliance Staff Officer for over two years with the FSIS District Enforcement Operations staff at Headquarters. In this position he coordinated Enforcement activities at Headquarters with the 18 FSIS District Offices throughout the United States and U.S. territories as well as other government agencies.

From 1992 until 1997, John served as a Staff Officer with the FSIS Headquarter’s Processing Operations staff at Washington D. C. As a staff officer, John worked closely with FSIS personnel at the Regional and Field level to resolve technical issues involving processing of meat & poultry products as well as problems associated with plant facility and equipment design and sanitation issues. During this time, he was a member of the FSIS/Industry Relations working group.

From 1987 until joining the Processing Operations Staff, John was a Circuit Supervisor with FSIS. In this capacity, he was responsible for reviewing meat and poultry processing plants to ensure compliance with FSIS regulations and policies concerning facility construction, blueprints, and sanitation. In additon, he was responsible for the supervision of FSIS inspectors at the inplant level, ensuring that they were properly trained in FSIS regulations and policies related to meat and poultry inspection, and that they were knowledgeable of the plant operations that they were assigned to.

John joined FSIS in 1969 as an inplant slaughter inspector. After serving two years in the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War, he returned to meat and poultry inspection. He worked his way through the ranks of inspection, gaining knowledge of the industry along the way. John attended Youngstown University from 1963 through 1965, majoring in Business Administration. He received Food Technology training through Kansas State University, completing the coursework in 1990. John has attended various FSIS training programs including Supervisory courses at Texas A&M University, the management Academy at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Criminal Justice Center training, provided by Sam Houston State University in Houston, Texas. John has two daughters. He resides with his wife Gabriela, and daughter Stephanie, in Elk Grove, California.