John served for twelve years as the Director of Research at the Arizona House of Representatives where he was responsible for drafting, presenting, researching and working with affected constituencies on transportation related legislation. He was deeply involved in major legislation that included the Maricopa County Transportation plan; State Highway Construction Acceleration; Privatization; DUI; Transportation Finance and Graduated Driver Licensing.

    Prior to that, he spent six years at ADOT serving in various capacities including, as Executive Assistant to the MVD Director; Deputy Director, Driver License Program; Legislative Liaison; MVD Customer Services and Central Processing Administrator and MVD Deputy Director and Operations Chief.