Expertise You Can Build On

SureTarget exists because most businesses are sitting on data and technology that could transform them — they just need someone who has done it before. That someone is our founder, John Housley.

Two decades of building the systems businesses actually run on

John Housley is a senior-level data engineering and architecture leader with more than 20 years of experience delivering enterprise data solutions across cloud and hybrid ecosystems. He has spent his career as the person organizations call when the data is messy, the systems don't talk to each other, and the marketing can't prove its ROI — and he leaves them with platforms that do all three.

As Data Services Director and Senior Sales Engineer at PossibleNOW, John leads the design and development of enterprise-scale data integration solutions — architecting across AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments to support analytics, compliance, and multi-channel marketing. Earlier in his career he served as VP of Data Operations at SureFIND and VP of Network Operations & Technology at NOVO1, where he ran technology for a 15-site contact center and rolled out multi-site VOIP, QA, and digital engagement platforms.

That range matters. John has sat in the boardroom and in the build — he has owned infrastructure and disaster recovery, designed the matching and cleansing logic behind clean customer data, written the backend services in Python, Go, Java, and JavaScript, and mentored the engineering teams that keep it all running. SureTarget brings that enterprise-grade thinking to businesses of every size.

The result is a partner who speaks both languages: the marketing leader's goals and the engineer's constraints. When you work with SureTarget, you're not handing your project to a junior team — you're working directly with someone who has architected these exact systems for healthcare, financial services, and high-volume marketing operations for two decades.

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Core Expertise

Where John Goes Deep

Two decades of hands-on work, distilled into the capabilities your business can put to work today.

ETL Architecture & Data Pipelines

Real-time and batch workflows designed and implemented at enterprise scale — for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources alike.

RedPoint RPDM (14 yrs) AWS Glue Spark Athena Hadoop

Data Quality, Matching & Governance

Robust matching and cleansing strategies aligned to data quality requirements, with encryption, IAM, and HIPAA/PII compliance built in from day one.

MDM / CDP Data Cleansing HIPAA / PII IAM & Encryption

Cloud & Big Data

Scalable, governed platforms across AWS, hybrid, and on-prem environments — with DevOps practices that make deployments repeatable and reliable.

AWS Git & CI/CD Shell / PowerShell Agile

Data Warehousing & BI

Enterprise data warehouses and dimensional models that support BI and AI initiatives — turning raw operational data into decisions leadership can act on.

Tableau QuickSight Power BI Domo

CRM & Campaign Management

Eight years building cross-channel marketing automation — connecting CRM, campaign tools, and customer data into orchestrated, measurable programs.

Salesforce MS Dynamics RedPoint RPI Unica Adobe AEM

Engineering & Integration

Backend services and API integrations written in the languages the job calls for, supported by peer reviews, documentation, and operational runbooks.

Python SQL Go Java JavaScript
Track Record

A Career Spent Shipping

The experience behind SureTarget — earned across two decades of real-world delivery.

May 2007 – Present

PossibleNOW

Data Services Director / Senior Sales Engineer

Leads the design and development of enterprise-scale data integration solutions using RedPoint platforms and cloud-native tools. Architects across AWS, hybrid, and on-prem environments to support analytics, compliance, and multi-channel marketing — providing solution design, workflow automation, and data pipeline leadership across varied use cases.

Apr 2005 – May 2007

SureFIND

VP, Data Operations

Built scalable systems to support client telephony data operations with high uptime and robust transformation logic, and developed end-to-end platforms to ingest and manage complex datasets while ensuring compliance and auditability.

Aug 1998 – Apr 2005

NOVO1 (GLS Direct)

VP, Network Operations & Technology

Led technology operations for a 15-site contact center — overseeing infrastructure, disaster recovery, and campaign tech enablement, and centralizing IT processes while rolling out multi-site VOIP, QA, and digital engagement platforms.

Put two decades of experience on your team

Whether you're migrating to the cloud, untangling your data, or trying to prove marketing ROI — let's talk about what's possible.

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