Project & Program Management

WILLIE J. JOHNSON, JR., M.B.A., PMP

919-***-**** **********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsonwillie

CAREER PROFILE

Results-Oriented Information Technology Development Leader with 15+ years of solid experience in championing

Federal and global, Fortune 100 billion-dollar corporate information technology department objectives, including

leading geographically dispersed, culturally-diverse cross-functional teams on large complex initiatives. Expertise in

implementing and supporting advanced software and applications technologies for a diverse group of stakeholders and

budgets upwards of $3MM. Successfully coach and manage teams to achieve all project deliverables on time and under

budget, delivering outstanding return on investment (ROI) metrics throughout the Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC). Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified SCRUM Master (CSM).

CORE LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

Leading Change - Proven ability to craft a vision and bring about strategic change that aligns with business objectives.

Leading People - Lead people towards meeting an organization’s vision & mission while fostering the team concept.

Results Driven - Meet goals and expectations by applying technical knowledge, making decisions, and taking risks.

Business Acumen - Manage financial, human and information resources strategically.

Building Coalitions - Build new internal and/or external alliances, coalitions or innovative partnerships.

COMPUTER & TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Solaris, Sybase, 3270 MVS, Unix, Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X

SOFTWARE: Ab Initio, COBOL, DB2, EzTrieve, Java, J2EE, .Net, PowerBuilder, Unix Shell,

Microsoft Office Suite, Project, Visio, SharePoint, IBM Rational Software (Rational

Requirement Composer, Rational Team Concert), HP’s Project and Portfolio

Management (PPM) software

E-MAIL: Microsoft Outlook, Google mail, Apple’s Mail

PROPRIETARY: Proprietary Financial services, Government, and Telecommunications software

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, Durham, North Carolina 2006 To 2014

Senior Manager, Software Engineering Development, Project & Program Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Direct and oversee teams of domestic and offshore analysts, developers, and project managers who support

discretionary projects, core maintenance activities, and strategic initiatives for Fidelity’s brokerage business; All

aspects of resources management, engaging executive sponsors and business partners in determining project scope &

User Acceptance Testing, managing deliverables, testing, timelines, milestones, budgets and coordinating with

technical partners to ensure the delivery of cohesive solutions. Key initiatives include:

• Program Manager for Truncation Initiative, which addressed issues associated with processing, routing and reporting

of growing trade volumes and associated dollars - as a result of institutional, international and penny stock trading.

Working across the enterprise to oversee, manage and partner with the various applications to ensure the remediation

efforts addressed the strategic objectives and provided the desired business value. Multi-year budget: +$7M

• Net Settlements Rewrite – Initiative provided external customers with an updated web interface, for improved

Customer experience and the needed flexibility to review, report and research current/historical Omnibus account

details. As the Project Manager, I assisted with refining/defining requirements, database design, web design and data

storage needs assessment to ensure the Customer Experience was not impacted. Additionally, determined budget,

timelines, task, resources, risks, user acceptance testing, oversight and delivered management communication.

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• Compute Grid Strategy which exploits the high capacity parallel processing that the grid provides, via processing

JAVA code on the Mainframe, which replaces the MQ (messaging middleware) based communication mechanism

with pure flat file processing.

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• Cash Account Trading and Portfolio Margin - International Margin & Risk strategic initiative. This initiative gave

customers the ability to trade foreign securities on margin, made fully paid international securities margin eligible

and utilized margin trading within portfolio margin accounts.

FANNIE MAE, Washington, DC 2003 To 2006

Sr. Manager, Software Development, Sr. Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Effectively managed and solely responsible for a large team of employees and contractors tasked with developing a

critical accounting applications, the architecture, shared services components, performance testing and profiling, in

support of Fannie Mae’s Restatement and Servicing Investor Reporting programs, working directly with the business

partners to ensure the accountability, reliability and transparency required by Federal Auditing, the SEC, GAAP and

the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Software and applications utilized included Ab Initio, JAVA,

J2EE & Web Services, with a budget in excess of $3M, utilizing Agile Methodology and structures.

• A variety of infrastructure cost saving initiatives – Managed a team of application architects tasked with supporting

Fannie Mae’s core infrastructure re-engineering project, which produced a 75% reduction in execution & 60%

budget reduction opportunities, which was reported & presented to Senior Vice President and staff; Established

systems as a TruSecure ICSA Certified Security Associate, coordinated the upgrade of Veritas Cluster Servers; the

conversion of over 2100 Unix servers from the Network Information Service(NIS) to a Domain Naming Service,

Internet standards and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); build out of UNIX servers and SANs in

compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation; established Project Management best practices.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, McLean, Virginia 2002 To 2003

Consultant (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation & Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managed technical contractors to the reverse engineer a data administration application to identifying process

improvements and create system documentation to meet agency standards for production and CMM (Capability

Maturity Model) Level 2 requirements, for PBGC.

• Managed a team of technical professionals supporting the maintenance, verification, and validation of several

federally insured financial institutions and thrifts throughout the U.S., while serving as the contractor liaison with

FDIC, and assisting with the development and composition of contract proposals in response to RFPs. Software

utilized was .Net, Java and COBOL.

SPRINT, Herndon, Virginia 1998 To 2002

Supervisor, Software Development

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managed several cross-company projects, utilizing technical teams of various sizes, covering multiple time zones

with budgets exceeding $1MM. Such projects included; the development and integration of a new web based

provisioning & rating engine into the legacy mainframe billing system; the redesign & development of a web based

reporting system. Developed a team of technical professionals that were highly proficient in their growth and

development, flexible in respect to assigned projects and technologically savvy.

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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

M.B.A., BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND – UC, ADELPHI, MD

B.S., COMPUTER SCIENCE, WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NC

PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION (PMP)

CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER (CSM)

SERIES 99 CERTIFICATION – FINANCIAL INDUSTRY REGULATORY AUTHORITY (FINRA)

• Worked full-time while pursuing all degrees and certifications.

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