 Some of his first projects included building the largest transactional system in the world for Columbia House Records and network monitoring solutions for Merck Pharmaceuticals in early 1996.Johnson soon realized he was conducting more project-based work than anything else and came to see the significance of the Internet in the workplace.It was then that Johnson, with help from Carroccio, started developing OTEC Inc.’s website into the job board that would later become HotJobs.com.