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John currently has a private consulting business, Spencer & Associates, focusing on higher education and industrial relations.
John retired in November 2006 from his position as Manager with Microsoft Research, a division of Microsoft Corporation.
With 30 years of business, international business and technology experience,
John's unique university relations and industrial partnership experience
has focused primarily on developing academic, governmental, NGO, and industry
relationships that develop, promote, enhance and improve higher education
in the United States and Latin America. He received a Bachelor of Science
in Business from the University of Central Florida and an MBA in International
Business from the American Graduate School of International Management
(Thunderbird), in Glendale, Arizona.
John was Commissioned 2nd Lt., Infantry, graduate of U.S. Army Aviation
School--Helicopter School and served on active duty from 1967 through
1973. He retired from the Army Reserves in 1995 in Military Intelligence.
From 1976 through 1994 he held positions with TRW Inc., Revere Copper
& Brass, Pullman Inc., ACI Consulting for Bell Laboratories and Argonne
Laboratories, Hughes Helicopters Inc., and the McDonnell Douglas Corporation
as an information technologist, developer, and systems manager. John joined
Microsoft after 12 years with McDonnell Douglas/Boeing.
John is a member of the Corporate Members Council of American Society
of Engineering Education, and the National Chairman of the Engineering
Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at Purdue University. He is currently
on the Deans Advisory Committee, Case Western Reserve University; Corporate
Partners, Purdue University; Founding Board of Governors, R&D Center,
University of Puerto Rico; and the Advisory Board, Alliance for Technology
Learning and Society (ATLAS), University of Colorado, Boulder.
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