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DeRicki Johnson

DeRicki Johnson is a freelance writer and a small business “Startup Coach.”


DeRicki has assisted with several tech start-ups, including InDemand Interpreting, a leader in video remote interpreting (VRI) for hospitals and clinics, and Northwest Telephone, Inc. (NTI), purchased by Zayo Communications in 2008. He has over 30 years experience as a writer, consultant and entrepreneur, with stints inside "respectable" corporations, usually cast in the role of maverick, "intra-preneur", or change agent. He specializes in freelance writing, strategic planning and tech start-ups—usually on a mission to: 1. Create a new business; 2. Create new line of business in an established company; or, 3. "Jump start" innovation & change in static company cultures. Most notably, DeRicki created new lines of business for former BellSouth subsidiary, Dataserv, and then spun them out as new divisions. Among the new division spin-outs, he developed a project-management-for-hire group that, within 18 months, achieved a $12M per year run rate doing hardware installation and conversion projects for such customers as Walmart, Citibank, AllState, Target, and Kmart.

DeRicki Johnson's Background

DeRicki Johnson's Experience

Marketing Director at InDemand Interpreting

2012 - 2013

Estimator at A Plus Carpet & Flooring

July 2009 - January 2011

Founding Member, Sales & Marketing at SYSTEMaTECH Services, Inc.

November 2007 - February 2009

Principal at Millennium3 Consulting

2002 - 2006

Business Development and Channel Manager at NTI (acquired by Zayo Group in 2008)

2000 - 2002

Director Business Development at US Online.com

1998 - 2000

General Manager at Powernet

1997 - 1998

Consultant at Synet Services

1994 - 1996

Director of Business Development at Dataserv, Inc.

1984 - 1994

General Systems Division CSR at IBM

March 1982 - September 1983

Reporter at The Times-Picayune

1976 - 1981

DeRicki Johnson's Education

Control Data Institute

1981 – 1981

Computer Tech


Dillard University

1974 – 1976

Concentration: Journalism


DeRicki Johnson's Interests & Activities

Reading, creative writing, and fitness are some of DeRicki Johnson’s interests

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