John Barrett
IT Director at Cambridge Housing Authority
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Barrett is an IT director with a decade-plus track record of building people-first, high-performing teams and driving enterprise improvements across public and nonprofit sectors. He blends deep technical roots—from hands-on systems and network work early in his career to strategic IT leadership roles at state government and the Cambridge Housing Authority—with strong business acumen and change-management chops. Known for cultivating lasting relationships and negotiating win-win value propositions, he excels at translating complex business needs into practical, smoothly implemented solutions. A former neuroscientist by interest (per his GitHub bio), he brings an analytical mindset and curiosity that inform his pragmatic approach to technology and team empowerment. Based in Boston, he pairs academic credentials in information systems with a proven history of guiding cross-functional teams through digital transformation.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Computer Science, Certification, Computer Science at Salt Lake Tooele Applied Technology CollegeThe University of UtahAssociate of Science (A.S.), General Studies, Associate of Science (A.S.), General Studies at Salt Lake Community College
English
Github Skills (76)
toolbox10
pose10
jupyter-extension10
pose-estimation10
electrophysiology9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
jupyter9
vscode-extension9
vscode9
image-processing8
paddle8
data-augmentation8
machine-learning8
spike8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnmbarrett/miscmatlab
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 45 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
matlab-codemiscellaneousmatlab
johnmbarrett/shepherdlabephys
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Ephys data analysis code used in the Shepherd Lab
Contributions:263 commits, 60 PRs, 174 pushes in 2 years 2 months
data-analysispythondata-managementdata-sciencecode-analysis
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