John Collins
Senior Director of Advisory Services
Lighthouse

John is a Director within Lighthouse’s Global Advisory Services team and Head of the Digital Transformation Practice. John brings more than twenty years of legal, regulatory, and consulting experience to this role, having advised organizations on an array of information governance, litigation readiness, and records and information management challenges, including those that involve the use and implementation of cloud technologies. A lawyer by training, John employs a methodical yet creative approach to problem-solving, taking time to understand unique aspects of the client’s landscape and account for each and every variable as part of a future solution.

For the past seven years, John has developed a niche practice in Microsoft 365 consulting and, specifically, advising clients on how to adopt and adapt M365 technologies to meet legal and compliance requirements.

John’s experience designing and implementing solutions that leverage and account for cloud technologies and changing behaviors has provided him with a unique perspective with which he now views digital transformation efforts. He is a leading authority in M365 implementation, and his focus is on designing solutions that are compliant, legally defensible, practical, and agile, so as to accommodate future change.

John Holliday
Principal Architect, Advisory Services
Lighthouse

As a Director in Lighthouse Advisory Services, John brings over three decades of experience as an information architect and software engineer, specializing in Microsoft's cloud, data architecture, business intelligence, machine learning, process automation, and collaboration platforms, as well as modern mobile/web development platforms, such as Angular, React, and Node.

John has substantial experience developing Azure, SharePoint, Office 365, SQL, web, and desktop solutions to meet client-specific needs, including records management solution development and integrating third-party tools. John served as a Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP for five years and has authored or co-authored several popular SharePoint development books.

John employs an academic approach to problem-solving, which helps him explore and solve complex problems with a unique perspective and depth. John's innovation and creativity have led him to develop numerous solutions in uncharted territory, including developing an Azure ML predictive analytics solution and microservices framework to provide on-demand, cloud-based support for optimized put-option trading. He has created an extensible widget framework for SharePoint to enable developers to build and deploy specialized web parts more easily, as well as a custom web-based data catalog with dashboards, KPIs, and configurable scorecards for on-demand analysis of enterprise data artifacts. He has also developed a prototype electronic document and records management solution for the United States Treasury.