Alec J. Johnston Email & Phone Number

Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Georgia, United States

Delivering Technical Program and Project Management Consulting services

Greater Atlanta Area

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Greater Atlanta Area

Partnered with Crystal Equation to deliver consulting services for a major client in the MSO arena. Served as Senior Technical Project Manager for a major telecom infrastructure build program. Program was successfully delivered on-time and budget.

Greater Atlanta Area

Johnston Business Solutions, Inc. (JBS) was formed in 2003 as a provider of IT, Business and Project Management consulting services for medium to large size companies. As owner and operator, Alec has served clientele in a diverse set of industries including: Cable (MSO), Telecommunications, Health care, Data Network Services, Real Estate, Government Services, Engineering, Mortgage Lending, Travel, and Utilities. Consulting Services include: Program and Project Management (PMO), IT business strategy and planning, business analysis and requirements definition, business process definition and engineering, data modeling, solution assessment, system implementation, RFP process management, vendor management, testing, problem handing\defect tracking, business procedure creation and training.Partial client listing: • Accenture • Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) • AT&T • Brighthouse Networks • Cox Communications • Cox Media • Eckerd Drug\Rite-Aid Pharmacies • EmCare • Florida Power Corporation • Southern Company • Tampa Electric Company (TECO)

Greater Atlanta Area

Partnered with Innovar Solutions to deliver consulting services for a major client in the digital media arena. Served as Project Manager and Technical Lead for the successful implementation of a new technology service trial.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed and evolved the IT/business relationship with the senior management tier of a $1 Billion dollar global services business unit. Created a Strategic IT Plan aligned with key business objectives. Defined, scoped and delivered projects per plan. Instrumental in the creation of a Systems Implementation Roadmap. Established IT Architectural guidelines and process driven methodology to support the systems development life cycle. Responsible for the identification, documentation and prioritization of business initiatives and requirements. Worked within amulti-million dollar budget in the execution of the function. Assigned as a mentor for a corporate initiative to bring Lucent from level 1 to level 2 of the SEI Capability Maturity Model. Experienced with systems integration activities from Mergers and Acquisitions.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Led business analysis team and requirements effort to implement enterprise level CRM within six months ($6M budget) for consulting engagement with Lucent Technologies.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Successfully delivered National Sales settlement system for Airlines Reporting Corporations (ARC) on time and budget.• Responsible for defect tracking, user change request management and production support. Developed custom application.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Responsible as developer for multiple financial related areas of Florida Power Corporation’s Customer Service System (CSS).• Developed COBOL and JCL programs for financial batch, electronic funds transfer, billing, statistical reporting and auditing. • Specialized in Financial and Service Delivery Reporting and data mining. Formally trained in Accenture’s SDLC methodology.

Crystal River, Florida

• Independently contracted as engineering\IT resource to maintain and enhance the Nuclear Engineering Department’s Configuration Management Information System (CMIS). CMIS is the design basis database for the Crystal River Unit #3 Nuclear Power Plant. Activities included user requirement interviews, programmer interface, co-ordination of testing and implementation activities and revisions to desk instructions/operating procedures. Wrote various Culprit/COBOL ad-hoc reports and data validation/tracking applications.

Bs, Management Information Systems

Pmp Certification, Project Management

PMP Number: 416047 (2006 Certification) PMP Number: 1770466 (2014 Re-certification)

Certificate, Management Training - Foundations Of Emerging Leaders Program

Diploma, Real Estate Appraisal

Aa, Business Administration

Mechanical Engineering

Diploma, College Preparatory