About John LeMasney

Biography

John is a designer, technologist, instructional designer, consultant, open web advocate and open source evangelist. He is most interested in helping people to use technology to make their lives, work, and world better.

Now in Nelson County, VA, John has lived and worked in Charlottesville, VA, and Princeton, NJ.

He has been offering consulting services for over 20 years with LeMasney Consulting. His skills include technology, design, communication, and branding. He serves academia, the enterprise, libraries, and consumers.

He was the Manager of Educational Technology Training and Outreach at Princeton University. Before, he worked at Rider University as the Manager of Technology Training.

He was awarded a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership with honors from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ (09). He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture. He graduated with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA (98).

He taught in Rider University’s Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program. He also taught at Princeton Public Library, Princeton Adult School, Library Link NJ, and many other venues.

Topics

I teach about Google services, like Drive, Music, Chrome, Chrome OS/Chromebooks, Android, YouTube and the rest.

I talk about designing presentations, graphic design principles, making infographics, digital illustration, digital photography, and personal and organizational branding.

I talk about many open source products and services including WordPress, Drupal, Inkscape, Linux, GIMP, VLC, and more. I talk about popular web services and methods in social media.

Mission

I want to help people. I want to use my various skills, achievements, and passions in technology, arts, and speaking. I aim to apply my experience and ability in these areas to help people make their own happiness. I also want to enhance their productivity and best practices. I strive to support or improve my understanding of technology, balance, quiet, calm, and universal knowledge. To this end I support, to the best of my ability, clarity, transparency, communication, openness, open standards, open knowledge and education, and low thresholds of entry for all.

Interviews and Philosophy

Here are a few interviews that will give you some insight on my technology and teaching philosophy:

• Open Source Primer: John LeMasney interviewed by Rich Kazimir (audio)
• A high school class interviews John LeMasney about Consulting (video)
• An evolution of the human senses: on smartphones (text)
• John LeMasney’s technology philosophy slide deck (deck)