PROFESSOR TJ

About Thomas “TJ” Johnson

TJ leads cybersecurity and risk management for a consulting firm in Chicago. He has lead cybersecurity efforts in the US Market for the fifth largest tax, accounting and advisory firm in the world and was the Chief Information Security Officer for a Technology Consulting firm in Chicago. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for providing security and compliance leadership that include areas such as vendor management, disaster recovery, business continuity, data protection, security products, budgeting, legal and risk management. He has over 25 years of experience in security and technology and has extensive compliance related expertise in banking, healthcare and manufacturing. His experience allowed him to work with medical centers, commercial banks, hedge funds, brokerage firms and manufacturers.

He has been interested in education for most of his life and has explored the many facets of the educational process from his work as a professional information security practitioner to hobbies of flying aircraft and amateur radio.

His tenure at IIT started in 2015 when he was asked to teach ITMS 588 - Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Incident Response. This subject matter is a love of his and is currently writing the textbook to supplement this class. He has also taught IT Project Management, Consulting for IT Professionals, Infrastructure as a Service, and Management for IT professionals.

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