John Scancella
Lead Information Technology Specialist at USPTO
- Role
- Lead Information Technology Specialist at USPTO
- Location
- Manassas, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Scancella
Developed, installed, configured, maintained, and fixed mission-critical National…
Experience
Lead Information Technology Specialist
Jul 2021 — Present
Technical Lead (GS-14)| Dec 2022 – PresentTechnical Lead (GS-13)| Jul 2021 – Dec 2022Led development of USPTO’s first continuous deployment pipeline, enabling releases multiple times per day vs. once per quarter.Championed observability adoption (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo), cutting MTTR from days to under 30 minutes and saving $1M/year by replacing Instana with open-source tooling.Mentored multiple technical leads, accelerating delivery of critical initiatives like fraud detection and trademark search modernization.Instrumental in securing Authority to Operate (ATO) for multiple cloud systems, directly supporting the retirement of a 40+ year old COBOL mainframe, saving $10M+ annually.Founding member of the Enterprise Component Community (ECC) steering committee, raising reuse and documentation standards across the organization.Introduced resilience engineering practices and automated AWS environment provisioning via Terraform, driving reliability and efficiency.Delivered significant cloud cost optimizations and operational improvements, saving thousands per month.Technical lead for up to 8 product teams concurrently, guiding architecture, code quality, security, deployments, and cross-team collaboration.Pioneered use of semantic versioning, contract testing, and agile process improvements adopted across USPTO.Recognized with Outstanding Rating (5/5) for three consecutive years (FY22–FY24).
Education
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Bachelor of Science - BS
2006 — 2010
Skills
- Subversion
- Git
- Bash
- Eclipse
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Troubleshooting
- Windows 7
- Software Development
- Software Engineering
- Integration
- Web Applications
- Software Installation
- Unix
- Atlassian Jira
- Continuous Integration
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
- Java
- Sql
- Linux
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