Robert 'Brooks' Johnson

Brooks Johnson started his career as an Air Force Captain, running $161M across 16 simultaneous program contracts and directing 40+ person cross-functional teams from requirement to delivery — cutting cycle time 27% and per-unit cost 10% along the way. He moved into defense contracting at Alliant Tech Systems and L-3, managing $125M in program P&L and securing the largest single contract award in the division's history. The pattern that emerged in those years — large stakes, multidisciplinary teams, and personal ownership of outcomes — has defined every role since.

The move to financial services brought a step-change in scale. At J.P. Morgan, he directed western-hemisphere technology for a $200M custody re-platforming and ran the Global Data Warehouse aggregating $1T+ in daily transactions. At Fidelity, he owned a $7 trillion annual-volume payments platform, led the largest security and resiliency re-architecture in its history, and shaped global financial-messaging standards as a member of the SWIFT Technology Working Group. At Charles Schwab, he led a 120+ person engineering organization protecting $350B in advised assets, delivered a $50M modernization program on time during the TD Ameritrade acquisition, and ranked in the top 1% of leaders firm-wide for employee engagement six years running.

At IRALogix, Brooks pioneered one of the industry's first full AI-SDLC frameworks — migrating an entire engineering organization to spec-based agentic workflows where AI agents generate, review, and iterate against formal specifications before human review. Cycle times dropped 60%. Defect escape rates dropped 40%. He hand-instrumented MCP (Model Context Protocol) across the production codebase as part of a founding design team, and built the human-in-the-loop governance that contributed to SOC2 Type 2 certification. AUM on the platform grew from $900M to $2.2B in twelve months while the team scaled 10x with 100% retention. Clearlight Consulting brings the same playbook — military precision, financial-grade rigor, AI-native execution — to companies who need executive technology leadership without the executive headcount.