Luther Johnson
luther@thejohnson5.com
Summary
Certified project manager (PMP) with a Masters Degree in Information Systems and over 13 years of
combined experience in project management, software development, design, and systems analysis.
Proven team leader of both onshore and offshore resources on wide ranging telecommunications projects
with a specialty in tax and finance applications. Broad skill set includes mainframe application
development, web design, and object oriented technologies. MSIS, PMP, certified A+; Network+; and
Security+, and over 300 training hours in various IT and best practices (Agile/Srum, ITIL).
Areas of Expertise
Project Management
• Over twelve years of experience managing hundreds of projects spanning upwards of 3,000 hours,
involving external vendors and numerous stakeholders.
Team Leadership
• Led a team of upwards of 12 software developers in India and the US in completing various tax
compliance and organizational objectives as well as enhancing telecommunications tax billing
engines to support numerous online, batch, and on demand interfaces.
• Team success included 100% deliverable timeliness with zero software defects.
Software Development
• Designed, coded, and successfully implemented two iterations of Verizon's largest tax billing engines
supporting over 40 million residential, business, and government customers.
• Extensive mainframe (COBOL/DB2) and online (stored procedure/JAVA) application design,
development, and testing experience.
Work Experience
Verizon, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1998 to Present
Project Manager / Development Team Lead
Responsible for managing simultaneous tax, finance, and billing initiatives as well as performing systems
analysis and design.
Current / past duties include:
• Project management duties including team leadership of both onshore and offshore resources;
requirements gathering from numerous stakeholders; project planning (resource estimates); schedule
and workplan maintenance; executive level status reports; and creation, collection, and distribution of
applicable project documents including project designs and traceability.
• Supporting and working closely with the sponsors of various IT initiatives including internal
tax/regulatory departments, internal & external billing interfaces, program management office, Public
Utility Commission, and various local, state, and federal agencies.
• Supporting numerous system decommission efforts including the retirement of legacy systems and
conversion and integration of accounts into the target systems.
• Creating and maintaining documentation focused on application functionality, audit support, and ad
hoc reporting requirements.
• Mainframe application design, coding, and maintenance of more than 1,000 components utilizing
COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, VSPLUS, SYNCSORT, SAS, etc.
• Creation and maintenance of a team website which provided corporate-wide visibility of our
application team, functionality, and current events. Additional features included task management
functionality which permitted team members and upper management to assign, view status of, and
update tasks including project assignments and time off requests.
Additional Work Experience
Freelance Web Design
2005 to Present
Providing web design and maintenance services to several clients including realtors and restaurants
utilizing basic HTML, JavaScript, JSP, SQL server, and Dream Weaver generally configured on Tomcat
enabled servers.
EDS, Northern Virginia
Software Engineer
Short term contract work involving support of USDA's PCIMS (Processed Commodity Inventory
Management System) utilizing COBOL, ADSO, and Visual Basic.
1997
Acuity Technology, Northern Virginia
1998
Software Engineer
Short term contract supporting AT&T's provisioning application utilizing C++ on Unix severs as well as
other web-based architectures.
Education and Training
Strayer University, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Master of Science, MSIS
2010
Strayer University, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems
Summa cum Laude
2006
Professional Development Training
Over 300 hours of computer-based and instructor lead professional development training including Agile,
Srum, and ITIL foundations training curriculum; communications and leadership courses; management;
security; and various programming courses. Complete training history available upon request.
Languages and Platforms
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COBOL, DB2, SQL, mySQL, VSAM, VSPLUS, JCL, C/C++, JAVA, JavaScript, JSP, Visual Basic,
HTML.
MVS, Windows, OSX Leopard, Tomcat, Unix.
MS Office Suite, MS Project 2007, Visio, Adobe Captivate, Dream Weaver, Photoshop.
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PMI:
PMP.
CompTIA: A+, Network+, and Security+.
Certifications
Military Service
U.S. Army Reserve, 159th Aviation Regiment, Fort Mead, MD
1994 to 2001