Jerome Johnson has over 18 years of full spectrum Information Technology (IT) experience. During his career, Jerome has worked as a developer, architect, and technical manager in the commercial and government spaces. He currently is the Head of Solutions Architecture of the National Security team at Amazon Web Services where he manages several teams that cover the Intelligence Community and DoD customers. Jerome double majored in Computer Science and Mathematics while he attended Charleston Southern University and received a Master of Business and Administration focusing on International Business and Information Technology Management. He specializes in Cloud Computing, Enterprise Applications, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Open Source technologies, and Software Development Lifecycle Process improvement. He also has deep knowledge in signal and image processing and enterprise financial systems.