John Barnes

John is President of The Barnes Global Advisors and the CEO/Founder of Metal Powder Works. John has a 30+ year career in product development and aerospace with Honeywell, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works™, Australia's CSIRO and Arconic. He's been involved in metal additive manufacturing throughout this career, beginning in the late 1990s when he was part of the Sandia National Labs LENS™ CRADA. Since then, he has been in and around AM, working both technical and business cases for implementation and development efforts in materials, powders, processing and printing to mature the technology for applications. John is recognized internationally for contributions to additive manufacturing, product development and leadership in engineering. His team boasts world firsts in medical, therapeutic and aerospace additive manufacturing. John stood up the AM research group at the CSIRO. John is a Materials Engineer by background but has developed expertise in manufacturing, airframe structures, gas turbines and low observables. He holds 15+ patents and applications and is published and presents internationally. He was Purdue University's Materials Engineer of the Year in 2014.  His team won the Silver Medal in the 2020 US Air Force AM Olympics. He is active in professional service, serving on the SAM AMS-AM Committee and is a member of the ASTM F42. He has served as Chair of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) AM Technical Community, Chair of the America Makes Executive Committee, Co-Chair of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)'s Additive Manufacturing Steering Committee for the Process Control Working Group, was awarded an America Makes AM Ambassador in 2019 and is host of the SME Voices AMplified podcast. He is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and RMIT University. John holds a B.S. and M.S. in Materials Engineering from Purdue University.