{"671020":{"#nid":"671020","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Army Veteran and Faculty Member Ronald Johnson is Writing His Next Chapter","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA few weeks ago,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/users\/ronald-johnson\u0022\u003ERonald Johnson\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was in the throes of an experience common to many graduate students. He was making final preparations for his dissertation defense after years of research and study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe difference between him and his peers was that Johnson wasn\u2019t at the beginning of his career. Rather, he\u2019s developing the third, or maybe fourth, chapter of his story after serving three decades in the U.S. Army and helping the NBA spin up its referee operations department.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the last 10 years, he\u2019s been at Georgia Tech, where he earned a master\u2019s degree in operations research in 1985. Johnson is a professor of the practice in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and also was managing director of the Tennenbaum Institute for Enterprise Transformation. He teaches Statistics and Applications for engineering and computer science students, advises student groups like the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/sports-business-club\u0022\u003ESports Business Club\u003C\/a\u003E, and works with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rotc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech ROTC\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou can read more about his story \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/army-veteran-and-faculty-member-ronald-johnson-writing-his-next-chapter\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe ISyE alumnus and professor of the practice served for 32 years, worked for the NBA, and just finished his doctorate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ISyE alumnus and professor of the practice served for 32 years, worked for the NBA, and just finished his doctorate."}],"uid":"36284","created_gmt":"2023-11-10 22:17:41","changed_gmt":"2023-11-10 22:22:16","author":"chenriquez8","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672357":{"id":"672357","type":"image","title":"General Ronald Johnson","body":null,"created":"1699654819","gmt_created":"2023-11-10 22:20:19","changed":"1699654819","gmt_changed":"2023-11-10 22:20:19","alt":"Ronald-Johnson","file":{"fid":"255583","name":"Ronald-Johnson-GT-v.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/Ronald-Johnson-GT-v.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/10\/Ronald-Johnson-GT-v.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":174470,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/10\/Ronald-Johnson-GT-v.jpeg?itok=62rmPMtL"}}},"media_ids":["672357"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}