John "JJ" Ark is a systems administrator for Advomatic, LLC, focusing on customer contact. He began his tech career as one of the co-owners of Portland, Oregon's Habit Internet Cafe, one of the first internet cafes in the United States. From there he moved into support positions at various local internet providers, working his way into fiber optics and network monitoring at a large, now-defunct broadband provider whose name started with "E" and rhymed with "Benron." After that interesting experience, he found himself at Comcast working with their Voice Over IP systems and from there to Charter Communications where he learned cable head-end systems. After a brief stint at the State of Oregon where he was told that he worked "too fast", he took all this experience to the business support unit of Yahoo, and from there was recruited by his old friends at Advomatic.

Apart from his geek chops, JJ brings to Advomatic his love of bicycles, especially Xtracycles and Sport Utility Bikes, and his experiences in AIDS activism, human rights activism and work in the original Green Committees of Correspondence in 1989. He is married to writer and web developer Lynn Siprelle; they live in Portland, Oregon with their two daughters, two twin cats, four chickens and one flopsy dog. His favorite beverage is coffee, and he is working to outlaw the wearing of pants.