Steve Johnston is the Team Lead North America, Field for IBM Optim. He has more than a decade of experience in the software industry working for leading organizations such as EPCglobal US, GS1 (formerly the Uniform Code Council), RealMedia, and Princeton Softech and is a graduate of the College of New Jersey. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups and associations on topics ranging from data privacy and compliance to the management of the effects of data growth in enterprise databases, the implementation of compliance-driven data management strategies, and the implementation of solutions to secure data in test and development environments.