Gerald Johnson

Background

About Gerald Johnson

DATA GOVERNANCE ARCHITECT / DIRECTOR Will produce your C-Level strategies and plans. Will work hands-on to implement your dictionaries, catalogs, lineage, policies, etc. Will train, assist, and mentor your staff to higher data governance practices. DATA QUALITY ARCHITECT / DIRECTOR Will measurably increase data quality through put, processing, output, and reporting. Will make data quality a way of life and a point of ROI. DATA ARCHITECT / DIRECTOR Will bring flexible, uniform, powerful, fast, and easy to use data architectures. Will get more from existing environment with stronger data architectures. Will train and mentor staff to higher levels of data knowledge and usage. Will quickly produce ROI though data architecture. Analytical, results-focused leader with significant experience at both the C-Level (developing strategies, leading governance initiatives, etc.) as well as the hands-on level (leading, architecting and building best-in-class data and database solutions that solve todays needs and position the organization’s data quality for years to come). Adept at bridging business requirements and technical specifications to deliver in demand situations. 3 decades as a technical expert and executive partner who mixes technical skills (in data quality, data governance and data architecture) with business communication and skills to work with the business side. Works at both the C-level decision processes, as well as getting hands on for the detailed data architecture and quality needs. Skilled in both the technical end of building the databases themselves, as well as facilitating the business side understanding and requirements gathering into that system. Technical skills enough to produce ROI on day 1, flexible enough to enjoy pressure situations, and skilled enough to communicate progress and issues with both IT and business staff. Coaching and mentoring to build team capacity and individual skills. Bringing both your data and your staff to new levels. Select Career Highlights Designed and implemented architecture data governance and data quality solutions for several Fortune 500 corporations, including Boeing, Del Monte, Goodyear, GE, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Frito-Lay, Weyerhaeuser, and others. Brought into several emergency situations to deliver immediate day one triage solutions, and then architected and lead them to long-term data quality and sustainable success.