Joshua Johnson, MIS

Passionate IT professional with 13+ years overall IT and 9+ years of management and project leadership experience. Enjoys partnering with executive leadership as trusted advisor and Chief Data Architect to determine business needs while leading cross-functional teams to design the systems necessary to deliver actionable information from disparate data sets, across multiple technologies. Determined to create the best possible solutions; utilizing resources within the cloud and on-premises. Provides leadership for proof-of-concept projects, hands-on testing, full stack solutions, and training sessions. Security conscious, ensuring that all solutions meet SOX and HIPAA standards. • Familiar with Azure, Oracle IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, IBM Bluemix, IBM DashDB, SAP ERP, Alteryx, Tableau, Oracle Data Integrator 12c, Teradata, IBM SPSS and SAS Enterprise Miner. • Skilled in the design of advanced Data & AI solutions within the Azure, Amazon AWS, IBM, and Oracle Cloud environments. • Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Azure Data & AI: - Passionate Data & AI technical architect serving as a trusted advisor and Chief Data Architect to Microsoft customers and customer success leadership, to partner closely with Microsoft engineering and drive change with feedback/requirements from our customers and to drive strategic technology capabilities that help our customers transform. Accelerates key engagements focusing on Data and AI capabilities and removes hurdles that prevent our customers from leveraging their data and developing insights. Acts as a champion and ally for customers and an advocate for resolving their challenges with engineering. Engaging with internal teams to drive awareness of customers’ feedback and lead, influence and drive resolution of that feedback. Responsible for unlocking customer value by accelerating Azure cloud consumption, and architecting innovative and complex solutions. Assuring Microsoft customers unlock business value from their data. - Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert • Hadoop data lake for Tyson Foods HR Analytics project - HIPAA compliant solution with TDE and RBAC for data masking policies maintained in Apache Ranger and Ranger KMS. Git, Jenkins and Nexus CI/CD pipeline for Pig, Hive, Spark SQL, PySpark, and SQOOP jobs. • Installing/configuring AtScale servers, LDAP integration. • Top 6 Finalist for the 2016 Oracle Excellence Award: Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation, Data Management. • Master of Information Systems - Walton College, University of Arkansas 2013.