Joshua Johnson

Current

• Systems Engineer at Microsoft

Past

• Systems Engineering Intern at Microsoft
• Production Intern at Symantec

Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Joshua Johnson’s Summary

Systems Engineer and Application Developer with broad experience across multiple languages and systems. Especially passionate towards HCI and large scale automation.

Joshua Johnson’s Specialties:

Systems architecture, Web service application design

Joshua Johnson’s Experience

• Systems Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Develop automation for the maintenance, monitoring and profiling of production enterprise systems.
  
  Consult with partner teams making architectural recommendations that ensure disaster recovery models, reduce management overhead and increase overall service availability.
  
  Create, drive, and document organizational best practices that reduce production incidents and further improve future service's manageability.

• Systems Engineering Intern

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2006 — August 2006 (3 months)

  Adopted new Management System for monitoring servers across 26 Windows Live properties
  
  Developed and documented procedure for building and deploying management packs across multiple data centers, as well as resolving issues arose
  
  Initiated communication with project groups to debug and critique management pack development procedures and also resolve scheduling conflicts with code deployments

• Production Intern

  Symantec

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; symantec; Computer Software industry)

  November 2005 — April 2006 (6 months)

  Work with NetBackup, specifically on the Database Agent Group creating and documenting patches for product interaction with DB2 and Oracle Databases
  
  Designed and carried out tests in a lab of 60+ machines, communicating between Windows, Linux, Solaris, and HP_UX to simulate client issues
  
  Participated code review process, working with senior engineers to create efficient algorithms
  
  Communicated with management to establish scope of client issues to accurately evaluate solutions impact

Joshua Johnson’s Education

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  Bachelors , Computer Science , 2005 — 2007

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Bachelors , Computer Science

  Activities and Societies:

  Association of Computing Machinery

Additional Information

Joshua Johnson’s Groups:

•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees

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