David Johnson Urges Utility Leaders to Invest in Resilience Over Hype
Texas, US, 16th September 2025, ZEX PR WIRE, After decades of shaping some of America’s most critical infrastructure systems, former Austin Water CIO and ERCOT IT Director David Johnson is using his recent in-depth interview to highlight a growing concern: public infrastructure is too often built around hype, not durability.
In his latest feature, Johnson reflects on his journey—from growing up on a cattle farm in Oklahoma to building the back-end systems of Texas’s deregulated energy market—and makes a call for leaders to rethink how resilience is designed and led.
“The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that real transformation happens when people understand the systems they’re building,” Johnson says. “Too often, decisions are made from a distance—without ever stepping into a control room...