Jason Weiss

Past

• Delivery Consultant at Development Dimensions International
• Assessment Technology Consultant at DDI
• Graduate Student Consultant at University of Nebraska at Omaha

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Education

• University of Nebraska at Omaha
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• The University of Western Ontario

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Connections

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Industry

Human Resources

Websites

• My Website

Jason Weiss’s Summary

Experience: An accomplished project manager and team leader focused on building HR systems and processes that deliver business results. Professional and academic expertise in design and delivery of creative and effective customized solutions for hiring and developing staff at all levels. Recognized innovator in assessment technology. Extensive experience in leading software design to create selection and development systems for organization-wide application.

Goals: My goal is to improve HR systems to achieve their maximum impact. I enjoy adjusting and standardizing existing processes and integrating them into a strong talent management approach. I enjoy building solutions that make a difference, whether that means bringing in the right tools from outside, or building entirely new tools when the situation warrants it.

Jason Weiss’s Specialties:

• Crafting strategic and execution plans for talent management
• Developing customized hiring and development solutions to meet business goals
• Traditional and technology-based assessment center design, delivery, and rollout
• Competency design and modeling
• Job analysis
• Survey design and analysis
• Training needs analysis and design and facilitation of training and development programs
• Performance management and succession planning

Jason Weiss’s Experience

• Delivery Consultant

  Development Dimensions International

  (Human Resources industry)

  August 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  • Proposed and implemented selection and development solutions for over $1M of business in 2008.
  • Designed and rolled out leader and salesperson assessment centers for clients in varied industries.
  • Successfully led a team designing and implementing a process to evaluate the entire sales force (executives, sales leaders, and sales representatives) of a major pharmaceutical firm within four months as part of a reorganization.
  • Turned around a failing leadership development initiative for a major mobile telephone manufacturer.
  • Led the design and successful rollout of a leadership test for the entire population of first-level leaders for a major foreign TV/radio network.
  • Implemented a leadership development program for a major medical devices manufacturer.

• Assessment Technology Consultant

  DDI

  (Privately Held; Human Resources industry)

  June 2000 — July 2007 (7 years 2 months)

  • Won an award for designing and leading a team to launch one of the first software packages to deliver assessment centers online worldwide.
  • Designed and implemented multiple assessment centers to evaluate leadership competencies across service, manufacturing, and financial industries.
  • Developed software to facilitate faster, more engaging job analysis.
  • Won an award for creating a standard process to evaluate potential to perform against specific business imperatives using both competency and personality data.
  • Created a process to combine and graph assessment data against industry benchmarks.
  • Led a team implementing software development with an overseas partner.
  • Designed and programmed software for multiple evaluation and leader development tools.
  • Led the design of an industry-wide competency framework in the HR-XML Consortium.
  • Wrote a thought leadership column on technology-based solutions in TIP: The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.

• Graduate Student Consultant

  University of Nebraska at Omaha

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 1993 — August 1998 (5 years 1 month)

  • US Navy: Analyzed annual surveys of personnel quality of life.
  • Catholic Health Corporation: Analyzed and developed employee satisfaction surveys.
  • Lincoln, NE Police Department: Led team developing and administering promotional test.
  • ConAgra Corporation: Trained associates in statistical analysis.
  • American Association of University Professors: Performed survey analysis.
  • First Data Resources: Evaluated options for computer-assisted training.

Jason Weiss’s Education

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

  MA , Industrial-Organizational Psychology , 1996 — 2000

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Ph.D. , Industrial-Organizational Psychology , 1996 — 2000

• The University of Western Ontario

  BA , Psychology , 1988 — 1992

Additional Information

Jason Weiss’s Websites:

• My Website

Jason Weiss’s Groups:

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
American Psychological Association

•    SIOP - The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
•    I-O Practitioners Network
•    I/O Careers - Network of Industrial Organizational Psychologists (IOP)
•    DDI-certified Facilitator's Group
•    U of N - Omaha
•    UNO I/O Psychology
•    Pittsburgh Consulting Community
•    DDI Alumni

Jason Weiss’s Honors:

Doug Bray Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Application of Assessment Technology, 2003
Doug Bray Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Application of Assessment Technology, 2006

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