John recently received a posted breakaway award. This award is given by employees to employees. John is always positive. He is the most positive manager I have had over my 13 years here at Novell. He really makes us as his employees feel needed and that we can accomplish our goals. He is great to [...]

“John is responsible and very competent test manager. He understands the critical role automation plays in quality assurance and is able to keep his team focused in making strides in this area resulting in valuable contributions to overall product quality.”

“John is extremely professional and always goes above and beyond on any task he has. As a Manager I have found John to be extremely organized and in tune with his team. He strives to work closely with his team to ensure they understand what is expected of them and to provide pertinent and timely [...]

“John is a careful and thoughtful decision maker who understands the development and testing process. John is keenly interested in improving processes to increase customer satisfaction and has demonstrated this through successful implementation of the ZENworks CustomerOne project. I highly recommend John and the quality work he performs.”

“John is a wonderful person to work with. He is a great leader and manager. He not only empowered me to do my job well but pushed me to improve. Additionally, he is highly skilled technically and could easily fill the roles he manages, which is not always the case. In summary, John has the [...]

“John is a great manager to interact with. He is always on top of his responsibilities and I feel confident he would make an excellent engineering manager. He has a good understanding of the development process as well as testing which always makes managing developers much easier. He’d do very well.”

John Andersen was part of an Engineering Excellence team at Novell that spent the first part of the year researching current test and automation practices around the company. Their charter was to create best practices that were to be used by all engineering teams at Novell. John’s team focused on test and automation strategies within [...]

“John is a very hard worker. He is detail oriented and has a great work ethic. He can be relied upon that when he accepts an assignment he follows through and finishes the work. He has good technical skills and makes sure that his work is professional. John makes great presentations that look polished and [...]

“I worked with John in Brazil in our first adult years. John always showed an unusual maturity and commitment to the tasks he was assigned to. Recently, I met him and I found that his attributes had led him into a successful professional career and personal life.”

“John was an excellent classmate. He had great repore with all of the students in the class and his hard work and excellent insight always made the class more interesting. Anyone who grouped with him to work on a project knew that they would be getting a strong effort and a lot of talent. I [...]