John Willis
Chief Technology Officer at Fourth Watch Business Continuity Services Inc.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Willis is a hands-on technology leader and CTO with 13+ years building and supporting complex healthcare IT and web systems, specializing in VA VistA, MUMPS, and enterprise-grade EHR deployments. He combines deep legacy systems expertise (Cache/MUMPS, ColdFusion, VB6) with modern Full-Stack development in Node.js and large-scale JavaScript GIS and dashboard apps. As founder of a custom software and hosting firm and CTO at Fourth Watch, he balances on-call production reliability, Linux/DBA operations, and bespoke integrations like HL7 and block-level database repairs. His background includes government and defense contracts with SSBI-cleared systems work and hands-on low-level debugging, which informs a pragmatic approach to resilience and incident response. Based in Las Cruces, NM, software is both his profession and primary hobby, so he continuously sharpens skills across old and new stacks.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mesilla Valley Christian Schools
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Github Skills (50)
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beaglebone-black6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CoherentLogic/IGLS
Aug 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 9 months
CoherentLogic/mumpsnumberspaces
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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