John is a full-time percussion educator, arranger, visual designer, program coordinator, clinician and adjudicator based out of Southern California. He received his Bachelor of Arts in percussion from California State University Long Beach in the spring of 2000. He currently has 16 years of drum corps teaching/design experience and 25 years of indoor percussion teaching/design experience with an unprecedented 45 WGI medals since 2005. He also wrote and produced a routine for America’s Got Talent with Pulse Percussion in 2023.
He has been the Percussion Director at Chino Hills HS since 2005 and was director of percussion at Pacifica HS from 2000-2011. John joined the design team at The Mandarins in the summer of 2025 as the battery arranger. His previous drum corps experience includes the Blue Stars Drum & Bugle Corps from 2013-2016, the Blue Devils B Corps as the percussion arranger from 2007-2012, and was the Battery Arranger/Percussion Caption Head for the Esperanza Drum & Bugle Corps from San Diego, CA from 2002-2006.
John is a Vic Firth Signature artist, a Yamaha Artist, a Remo artist, a Zildjian artist, and a WGI Percussion Steering Committee/Advisory Board member. He is also a co-founder of Box-Six.com, a website compiling original indoor percussion and marching band shows with fellow composer Ian Grom.