John Phillips is a seasoned information management professional with over 15 years of experience in product life-cycle development, specializing in the retail, industrial, eCommerce, B2B, ECM, and lead generation spaces. He is well-versed in taxonomy, search, information retrieval, analytics, SEO, data management, product management, information architecture, auto-categorization, SQL, release management, process development, and various search technologies like ATG, Endica, Lucene/Solr, and Google Commerce Search. John's expertise spans across all channels, including mobile.

John holds a degree in Master of Arts, International History from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Riverside, and a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.

John's work experience includes Director of Product Management, Taxonomy at System1, Sr. Technical Product Manager, Search at Procore Technologies, Consumer Data Taxonomist (Contract) at The Clorox Company, Sr. Search Consultant at Lakeshore Learning Materials, Sr. Taxonomy & Search Consultant at Earley Information Science, eCommerce Search & Taxonomy Manager at West Marine, Sr. Manager, Enterprise Taxonomy & Search at Guitar Center, Sr. Product Manager; Data, Content & Search at Campus Explorer, Consumer Search Product Manager at Dex One, Sr. Taxonomy Analyst at Dex One, Taxonomy Analyst at Business.com, eCommerce Data Analyst at Universal Music Group, and Information Architect at USC Shoah Foundation Institute.