David R. Johnson

Hermitage, TN ***** 615-***-**** adf5k8@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/walkershunt

Director of Technology

Technology Project Management Business Process Improvement Global Technology Solutions

Accomplished enterprise technology leader with extensive experience directing and implementing technology operations. Global experience in managing teams and building relationships with strategic partners, driving mutual value to achieve organizational goals. Champion of change; skilled in slashing costs, increasing efficiency, and improving performance by aligning needs with technology capabilities. Builder of resilient and successful cross-functional teams; adept at forging relationships across all organizational levels to achieve shared objectives. Strategic thinker with high standards and the ability to do more with less; leveraging technology to solve complex business problems.

- Areas of Expertise -

Leadership & Team Building Training & Development Financial & Resource Oversight Vendor Negotiation

Strategic Planning Change Management Service Level Agreements Six Sigma Quality Assurance Project Life Cycle

Situational Awareness Systems Facial & License Plate Recognition Surveillance Security Vulnerabilities

Data Management & Recovery Database Technologies R & D Satellite & Radio Frequency Communication

- Career Highlights -

Engineered new standard for load balanced Global SQL Server Reporting environment; design adopted by Microsoft

Architected unique situational awareness system for a secure, standalone city surveillance system in Puerto Rico

Slashed costs by millions by eliminating redundant hardware and software and high cost support agreements

Saved $30M in costs over three years by restructuring licensing of SQL Server within the Global Bank

Designed and implemented solar-powered video surveillance system for a 5-star resort in Dubai

Professional Experience

ASURION Greater Nashville Area, TN 2011 - 2020

Senior Technology Manager

Managed IT infrastructure services; planned and oversaw projects and integration of acquired operations. Analyzed technology needs and oversaw implementations to promote more efficient and cost-effective deployments of infrastructure services. Negotiated with vendors to get the highest level of service for their organization’s technology.

Exceeded goals to reduce monthly production outage times and frequencies by reorganizing key production support teams and creating a new global monitoring team to consolidate and enhance best of breed tools.

Achieved immediate results in global environment stability by creating a ‘Shark Team’ comprised of key individuals from their respective production support teams to carry out action items identified.

Significantly reduced overhead by negotiating pricing, reviewing and restructuring contracts, and modifying licensing models; worked closely with finance, business, tech owners, sourcing, and legal teams.

Slashed operational costs by millions by eliminating redundant hardware/software and high-cost support agreements by phasing out aged hardware/software, changing process for adding additional hardware and software assets, and limiting number of vendors to best of service and value.

SYMMETRY GROUP Fayetteville, NC 2009 - 2011

Director of Technology

Directed all technology projects in support of situational awareness systems, facial and license plate recognition, surveillance, satellite and radio frequency communications. Delivered global technology solutions; designing and implementing technical solutions based on each country’s circumstances and needs. Served as Technical Project Manager overseeing full project life-cycle, in and out of country. Managed all financial and resource utilization forecasts.

Successfully completed project and live in-the-field demonstration to the Western Australian Police Force for a unique, purpose built situational awareness system including standalone off-grid networking and communications.

Architected a unique situational awareness system (SAS) for a secure, standalone city surveillance system with RF WiFi mesh networking communications in Puerto Rico along with license plate and facial recognition systems.

Delivered live in the field demos and installs of police body cam and vehicle dash cam video back to the command center, demonstrated live facial recognition systems and license plate recognition.

Identified a breach in video feeds to the police command center after running security video network analysis.

Designed solar powered video surveillance system for a 5-star resort in Dubai.

Improved project and partner company collaborations by implementing internal and Cloud SharePoint sites.

BANK OF AMERICA Charlotte, NC 2000 - 2009

Senior Technology Manager (2005 - 2009)

Led team of nine managers and global database teams supporting 2,000+ systems and 150K users. Managed 50+ concurrent business projects, global database organization efforts for all technologies, and all SQL Server and MySQL technology teams. Served on the Architecture Review Board for platform/project solution decision making. Worked with senior business partners to determine business solutions, needed resources and costing. Coordinated all software and hardware vendor relationships involving database technology, and led globalization support efforts for all databases.

Oversaw database project to implement Safe Send environment for secure money transfers to Mexico.

Architected and implemented the largest SharePoint environment in the world (at this time).

Reduced costs and improved operations by establishing offshore database and middleware support facility in India.

Cut $30M in costs over three years by restructuring licensing of SQL Server within the Global Bank.

Saved $10M+ by consolidating multiple Enterprise Class infrastructures.

Engineered a unique load balanced SQL Server Reporting environment; adopted by Microsoft as a new standard.

Managed the college hire program and training for the Enterprise Database organization.

Global Wealth and Investment Management Database Manager (2003 - 2005)

Managed geographically dispersed, eight-person database team maintaining 250+ SQL servers supporting 3,000-user trading systems and financial planning operations. Served as Project Manager for all SQL Server projects within the Global Wealth and Investment Management space. Designed and led infrastructure optimization efforts within Wintel midrange space. Worked with business partners to develop new custom solutions and provide time lines.

Increased performance and lowered management costs by developing and implementing Bank’s largest shared Enterprise Class infrastructure.

Architected and implemented uniquely developed applications meeting all high availability needs for multimillion dollar trading and brokerage systems.

Reduced failure and simplified administration by standardizing hardware and software across SQL Server, and streamlining problem identification and post production review process.

Prior Experience:

Asset Management Group Senior Database Administrator, Bank of America

Senior Database Administrator, Texas Children’s Hospital

Private Technology Consultant, George B. Allan Company

Systems Administrator, Sprint Research & Development

Certifications & Technical Skills

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Implementing & Supporting IIS

System Administration for SQL Server Legato Networker Administrator

Microsoft SQL Server High Availability DB2 Universal Database Administration

Designing & Implementing OLAP Solutions SQL Server 2000 Mastering Visual Basic 6

Programming a SQL Server 2000 Database Oracle: Backup and Recovery

Oracle: Architecture and Administration Vizada Satellite Communications

Rajant Radio Frequency Communications

Technical Skills:

Oracle SQL Server Sybase DB2 Netezza Informix MySQL Linux Windows Cassandra Mesh Networking Application and Networking Performance Mgmt SharePoint

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