Dr. A. M. Johnson Jr.

Founded in 1990 by Dr. Allen M. Johnson, Jr., RAS Group has earned a reputation as a reliable supplier of quality software professionals and services at extremely competitive prices.
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500 in 1999, Dr. Johnson said, "This accomplishment is a testimony that hard work and persistence do pay off if you have the faith that the Lord will see you through the rough times.
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Founded in 1990 by Dr. Allen M. Johnson, Jr., Rainbow Analysis Systems Group achieved the rank of number 491 on the 1999 Inc.500 list with a sales growth of 604% from 1994 to 1998.RAS Group is a proven information technology company that specializes in staffing, consulting, training, and development.A unique blend of in-house skills enables RAS Group to serve the needs of a client list that ranges from industry giants to small businesses and includes state and city government.

Dr. Johnson says "This accomplishment is a testimony that hard work and persistence do pay off if you have the faith that the Lord will see you through all the tough times.
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By Allen Johnson
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The president of RAS Group, Allen Johnson, says, "This partnership adds a new dimension to our long relationship with IBM where we not only provide training and consulting to IBM but now we have an opportunity to provide IBM's quality services to other companies.
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The Rainbow Analysis Systems Group (RAS Group) was founded in 1990 by Allen Johnson, former IBM employee.A software technology company, RAS Group has earned a reputation as a reliable supplier of quality software professionals and services at extremely competitive prices.
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The 1995 Award Application was completed entirely by Allen.In 1996, he involved more of his staff in the process, but he still did the most work writing the application.In 1997, another associate volunteered to coordinate the effort of collecting information and writing the application.According to Allen, there has been a direct relationship between how much the staff was involved in the application process and the effects on RAS Group's business.
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Allen says to be persistent and flexible.
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Dr. Allen M. Johnson, Jr.

In 1990, Dr. Johnson retired from IBM after 26 years and founded Rainbow Analysis Systems Group, Inc.RAS Group, Inc. specializes in the areas of staffing, training, developing courseware, managing contract programming projects, LAN/WAN/Internet solutions, and turnkey systems.Some areas of specialty in consulting include Software Design, Software Testing, Reliability Analysis, and Project Management.

Dr. Johnson successfully won a National Science Foundation Grant to support the initial phases of product development for a simulation tool used to evaluate system dependability in 1991.He has participated in SEI maturity level assessments.He was involved in the design implementation and evaluation of reliability, availability, and serviceability of many IBM products such as the RS/6000, AIX, and IBM System 370/138 and 148.He developed testing methodologies for many IBM products and has taught Software Testing since the early 1980s throughout the world.

He has taught at IBM's Systems Research Institute, lectured at IBM's Quality Institute, developed and taught courses in Computer Systems Reliability.He was a member of IBM Technical Education's University Programs Group for four years, has been an adjunct professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin, taught courses for University of Texas's Continuing Education.He has presented tutorials at the International Phoenix Conference of Computers and Communications and at International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.Over the last twenty years he has taught and developed courses in Software Design, Real-time Software for Distributed Systems, Project Management, Fault-tolerant Multiprocessor Design, Fault-tolerant Computing, Software Testing, Reliable System Design, and Reliability Analysis.

Dr. Allen M. Johnson, Jr. is a Senior Member of the IEEE (Computer Society and Reliability Society), member of ASQ, member of ACM, member of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, member of the Capital City Chamber of Commerce, and faculty member of the University of Texas at Austin Software Quality Institute Software Project Management Certificate Program.

Dr. Johnson is the publisher and co-author of "Celia's Boy".He does presentations of helping African American's find their roots.
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Dr. Johnson has over 30 publications and patents with a focus in the area of reliable computer system design.He has had papers presented at the 15th Annual Reliability Testing Institute, the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, International Conference on Computers and applications, and the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium.He has had papers published in IEEE Trans.On Computers, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Quality and "Reliability Engineering International, and RiSc World.
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Celia's boy Allen was born the grandson of an ex-slave in 1915, when segregation was the law of the land.Today, Celia's grandson, Allen Jr., runs a high-tech company in Austin.

A new tool to dig up family historyAmerican-Statesman Staff Sunday, July 1, 2001 ...They can help put back together families torn apart by slavery, said Allen Johnson, public affairs director of the church's Round Rock stake, or congregation.
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"Keeping Bugs Out of Software" By Allen Johnson, Ph.D. from Software Quality Matters, Fall 1998 and Winter 1998 by University of Texas Software Quality Institute.

Allen M. Johnson Jr., Miroslaw Malek: Survey of Software Tools for Evaluating Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability.Computing Surveys 20(4): 227-269 (1988)

SQI Symposium on Software Reliability Examines Today's Practices and Tomorrow's Challenges by Herb Krasner, David Rentschler, Allen Johnson, Richard Denney, and Geree Streun.
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"Modeling Maintenance Strategies with Rainbow Nets," A. M. Johnson, Jr., M. A. Schoenfelder, and D. J. Lebold, Proc.Annual Rel. and Maint.Symposium, Las Vegas, 1992, pp 449-455

"Rainbow Net Analysis of VAXCluster System Availability," Allen M. Johnson, Jr. and Michael A. Schoenfelder, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol.40, No.2, June 1991.

"Using Rainbow Net Simulation to Measure Fault Tolerance in a Multiprocessor," Allen M. Johnson, Jr., Michael A. Schoenfelder, David Lebold, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol.9, pp 55-62 (Jan-Feb 1993),

GECOMO Plus Estimates Time and Cost," A. M. Johnson, RiSC World, July 12, 1992.

"Fault Impact and Fault Tolerance in Multiprocessor Interconnection Networks," Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Sept-Oct. 1992, pp 485-500.

"A New Simulation Method for System Dependability Analysis" by A. M. Johnson, National Science Foundation Report, # ISI-9060230, August 12, 1991

"Fault-Tolerant System Design," IBM Technical Report TR 51.0570, Jan. 1990.
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"Fault Classification: The First Step in Fault-Tolerant Design," IBM Technical Report TR51.0493, Jan. 1989, A. M. Johnson and M. Malek.
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"Local Storage Facility" U.S. Patent 3,618,028, A. M. Johnson and L. D. Youngblood, Nov. 1971

"Self-Checking Parity Checker for Two or More Independent Data Paths" U.S. Patent 3,825,895, A. M. Johnson, July 1974.

"I/O Micro," J. P. Buonomo, A. M. Johnson, and J. D. Reid, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, April 1969.

"Diagnostic Controls System," A. M. Johnson and L. D. Youngblood, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, October 1971.
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"Microprogram Self-Assembler," A. M. Johnson, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Dec. 1971.
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"Microword Bit Overlap," A. M. Johnson, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Dec. 1974.

"Emergency System Store Facility," A. M. Johnson and W. H. Spear, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, August, 1987.

"Integrated Distributed Maintenance System," A. M. Johnson, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, December, 1980.
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"Concurrent Error Detection and Retry Mechanism for Interconnection Networks for Parallel Computers," A. M. Johnson and B. D. Rathi, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, April, 1987.

"Fault-Tolerant Self-Checking Parity Checker for Multiple Independent Data Paths," A. M. Johnson, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, January, 1990.