John DeGrey is a Software Developer Manager for the University of Utah Hospital & Clinics who specializes in complex systems and software architecture. He has been developing software professionally for over 15 years and managing teams for 6 years. 

John graduated from Weber State University, Ogden UT in 2002 with a B.S. in Computer Science. He earned 2 High Honor awards for achieving 4.0 GPA and 4 Honor awards for GPA 3.5+. He also served as President of Beta Theta Pi, Delta Omicron Chapter.

John fell in love with computer programming ever since writing his first program on a Commodore Vic 20 in grade school. His first home computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4A that he still has today (along with the Basic programming manuals). He has a strong technical background and passion for all thing’s computer science. John also maintains and contributes a technical blog and side projects to possibly help other developers learn and solve problems.

John has created mission critical software systems from beginning to end which interface with automated machinery. These systems, in use today, are with many high-profile companies such as Frito-Lay, Caterpillar, Honeywell to name a few, along with government entities such as Federal Reserve Bank, Utah State Archives, United States Archives and Department of Defense. In the past several years he ventured into the mobile development market which led to developing forensic tools for mobile platforms now used by many law enforcement agencies. His forensic software won several awards and has been highlighted in magazines such as Wired. It was also shown on a KSL News story where it was being used to help find missing children.

John is currently working on a high-profile project called SafeUT in partnership with Utah state senators, the Board of Education and the Utah Attorney General’s Office. The core part of the project is for crisis/suicide prevention and has been hailed as a revolutionary platform and the future of crisis intervention.