Christopher Johnson Email & Phone Number

Cooperstown, New York, United States

Cooperstown, Ny

Responsible for the operation, coordination, support, development, and management of enterprise non-clinical applications.Facilitate communications between customers and vendors to derive cost estimates, establish and drive implementation for new/revised application systems.Entrusted to hire, assign, direct, and evaluate personnel, ensuring staffing levels are met, and staff are aware and accountable for their daily/project activities. Help to establish department vision and direction with oversight from the director of information technology.Handle vendor management with all facets of engagement to balance commit to and competition between vendors.

Cooperstown

Determines operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.Designs new computer programs by analyzing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.Improves systems by studying current practices; designing modifications.Recommends controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.Defines project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; forming project team; establishing project budget.

Chair, Computing and Information TechnologyFormulated a new vision for the CMIT curriculum, developed a curriculum to meet that vision, and united faculty to buy into the vision.Responsible for managing the departmental budget and facilitating acquisition of resources needed to support the faculty and curriculum.Incorporated assessment strategies into the curriculum to ensure the department meets the requirements of computing and technology programs as guided by the Association ofComputing Machinery (ACM).Developed assessment criteria to gauge students in various sections of identical courses to ensure departmental outcomes were met.Participate in traditional and adult student recruitment fairs to attract new students to the program.Chair national search committees to hire new professors as the department grew.Maintain communications with professors and students to ensure needs are met, and manage conflicts or issues.Develop semester course schedules and instructor assignments for course offerings.Responsible for hiring and evaluating adjunct professors.Assistant Professor, Computing and Information Technology Teaching responsibilities: Introduction to Computer Programming[CMIT140], Advanced Programming [CMIT141], Data Structures and Algorithms[CMIT201], Data Structures and Algorithms for CIS [CMIT202], Foundations of Information Systems [CMIT221], Computer Hardware Construction [CMIT223], Information Design [CMIT331], Software Engineering [CMIT341], Database Systems [CMIT342], Artificial Intelligence [CMIT401/IDS419], andFirst Year Experience (Playing with Legos is not just for kids) [FYE101].Oversee and direct student independent studies: CMIT250 [Advanced Data Structures], CMIT 350 [Network Architecture], CMIT 350 [Database System and Relational Design], CMIT 460 [Server Infrastructure Design], CMIT 460 [Software Architecture Design], CMIT490 [Senior Honors Project].Responsible for advising CMIT majors and Minors.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science [2001-2005]Teaching responsibilities: Introduction to Computer Applications [CS101], Introduction to Programming [CS105], Computer Science I [CS110], Computer Science I Lab [CS111], Computer Science II [CS201], Hardware & Basic Networking [CS230], Applied Database [CS255], C Programming [CS291], Database [CS355], Systems Development [CS480], Software Development [CS490], and Winter Camping and Survival [PE152].Involved with curriculum development for the Computer Science department through the creation of a new major and minor (E-Business Technology major and Computing Technology minor) and their respective courses.Responsible for advising students (majors and non-majors of the department).

Plan, design, develop, and test new functionalities for the Object Linking and Embedding for Database (OleDB) component of the Client Access product.Rewrite existing modules to integrate with new Microsoft technologies while maintaining backward compatibility against older technologies.Handle customer inquiries regarding performance or problems in the OleDB Provider.Design and develop downloadable samples that demonstrate coding to ADO and OleDB providers with different development environments.

Sales & MarketingResponsible for maintaining current sales while increasing new customer growth.Met goal of 25% increase in annual revenues for 1995.Responsible for accounts receivable.Experience with numerous types of cable plant installations/topologies.Increased migration of administrative tasks to PC based.

Masters, Software Engineering

Thesis: Design and Development of An Intramural Sport Management System Advisor: Dr. Kasi Periyasamy

Bachelors, Computer Science