John Montecalvo

John is a long time veteran of the Information Technology industry. He started his career as an intern with the Rhode Island Department of Health in 1977. Charged with acquiring a "recording typewriter", his research led him to a Radio Shack store, where he was introduced to "word processing". After convincing the powers at the Health Department, he was responsible for the acquisition of the very first desktop computing equipment ever purchased by the State of Rhode Island. Over then next fourteen years he guided the State Health department into the computer age, from IBM's introduction of the first PC, to the design, development and integration of the first internal network powered by Novell Networks product called NETWARE. In 1978, he was witness to the first internet communication ever to take place in the State of Rhode Island. A faculty member at Harvard University sent a message to a faculty member at Brown University. That message was: "Watson are you there?"

His last achievement was the design and implementation of the State's first fully automated professional licensing system. A system that tract health professionals from initial licensure through retirement for Doctors, Nurses, Hairdressers and a host of other health professionals.

In 1991, John left the Rhode Island Department of Health to start his own consulting and integration business. That business has taken on many forms in the ensuing 23 years. He became a Certified Network Engineer for both the Novell and Microsoft networking platforms. Later he earned the Certified Trainer status for those platforms as well. His company was awarded a contract from Roger Williams University at their Center for Professional Development to start the first IT program Professional Development. Later his company became the first privately owned IT professional training center in the State.

Today, he and his company, join the Innovative Enrollment Solutions, Innovation Team.