Jan 2019 – Oct 2025 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Jan 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Johnson specializes in Software and Supply chain digitization, which has a global footprint in many key horizontals spanning geographies. He had led efforts, which have resulted in several award winning Digital transformation projects. These ideas were widely received for their far reaching impact.
• In his current role, he is also in charge of leading Supply Chain block Chain Transformation . His team provides thought leadership, in cutting edge technologies like Block Chain, Telemetry and Predictive analytics, within Cisco and wider Industry. Johnson is an industry expert in prodcut Telemetry and lead Cisco's Product telemetry implimentation and data mining for all of Cisco's prodcut .
• He is a well-known international speaker, specializing on the subject of Software and Supply chain digitization and method agnostic’s development systems. He recently co-authored a book on Telemetry and Quality, published by ASQ is considered as a key industry trend indicator.
• Johnson holds engineering degree from University of Mangalore India, MBA in International Business from University of Wales UK. He is an alumina of HAAS School of Business University of California Berkley and IMD Lausanne, Switzerland . Johnson is a certified Executive Coach with international coaching experience.

Jun 2011 – Oct 2016 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• All Cisco software and Hardware move though Engineering and Supply chain IT systems. Integration, Automation and Digitization of Cisco software and Supply chain is the most complex undertaking . End to end integration and providing data driven decision making with the help of predictive analytics is satisfying for any technocrat. Leading the vision of digitization for software and supply chain with speed, scalability and security is our primary job.
• Also head the Cisco Advanced Analytics platform and Cisco connected quality organization . Starting from product telemetry and how the data is used across various systems and eventually turned back into development process is industry’s best challenge . Our engineers are developing machine learning algorithms to solve some of the best known problems in the software and hardware world . A team of Data scientist with best known intelligence is part of my quality and compliance organization responsible for software and supply chain analytics and predictive engines. Our team is responsible for automating engineering operational reviews and running traceability of end to end software development with “One Click” .

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

• Global leader for Systems Test, Integration Test and Regression test for all Cisco Products and Software. Created an organization of 200 + engineers from ground up
• Responsible for Cisco Software testing framework, tooling, reporting, release gating and Cisco Engineering testing Lab for 2 major software functions
• Accountable for Lab planning and design for engineering labs with more than 20k devices for 2 Software units.
• Reduced the cost of finding a defect in software by 60% by end of 3 year in operation and left shift the defect finding early in cycle.
• 100% automated testing framework and regressions with 70% reduction in infra and headcount investment

Dec 2002 – Jan 2009 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Technical leader and later Manager for Engineering Software Test function. Domain expert in AAA, Service Selection gateway, Routing Protocols and SNMP.
• Test automation and methodology specialist.
• 3 time CEO and customer award winner for engineering excellence and Innovation

Dec 1999 – Oct 2002 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Responsible for Novell’s data center networking and system administration
• Expertise in network design, Data center planning
• Designed and setup Novell System test super lab with more than 3000 devices