About The Analyst

John D. Deans of Deans Consulting started in the early 1980's as a computer programmer with Control Data Corporation, then to J. S. Nolan & Associates as a system analyst and later with CogniSeis as manager of computer operations in the late 1980's.  Most of the 1990's, John was a computer networking consultant and one of the founding members of Houston's Paranet, a computer network integration consulting firm.  During those years, John became a Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) and later a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).  As employee number eight at their small office in west Houston, John worked feverishly with his peers and helped grow the single office company with eight employees in 1991 to over 2,000 employees in 23 offices in the US coast to coast by 1997.  

John designed, built and managed computer networks for Amoco, British Petroleum, Tenneco, Enron (did not enjoy that one), Landmark Graphics, Compaq and many more.  In late 1997, Paranet was sold to Sprint for $375 million and John completed his Gigabit Ethernet project with then Compaq Computer Corporation a year later and moved to his family to their Texas ranch.  John then started Deans Consulting, L.L.C. in 1999 as independent computer networking consultant to bring his extensive enterprise level experience and service quality to the businesses and residents of Washington County and surrounding areas.