John Coggeshall is CEO of Internet Technology Solutions, A PHP-focused technology consultancy. A former senior member of Zend Technologies’ Global Services team, he got started with PHP in 1997 and is the author of three published books and over 100 articles on PHP technologies with some of the biggest names in the industry such as Sams Publishing, Apress and O’Reilly. John also is an active contributor to the PHP core as the author of the tidy extension, a member of the Zend Education Advisory Board, and frequent speaker at PHP-related conferences worldwide.

Some little known facts about John:

• He is a direct descendant of a co-signer of the first document granting religious freedom in American history (and one of the founders of the state of Rhode Island), also named John Coggeshall.
• John is a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
• John grew up in Pentwater, Michigan; population was 958 in the year 2000. Before John moved away, it was 959.

What are people saying about John?

I had the privilege of working with John during the summer of 2008, while he was providing consulting services to our company. What impressed me the most about John was his ability to convey trust and ownership to the people he managed. I still keep his “Development Philosophy Review” at my desk, where he presents his vision to “put more expectations and power to deliver in the
hands of strategic development teams” and his key principle for management to “trust in motivated individuals”. The introduction of this philosophy (which I believe may have influenced critical management changes in our company) has greatly improved the effectiveness and morale of our team. —
David James, Web Applications Engineer, Dealerspan

John will be speaking on the topics of Android Development with PHP as well as Flex/PHP. You won’t want to miss these!