Jay Jakosky

Past

Senior Technical Consultant at Pivotal Solutions Group
Senior Consultant at QlikTech
ETL Developer at Collect America

Consultant at Aerocraft Heat Treating
Senior Consultant at QlikTech
IT Manager at Globe International

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Education

University of Southern California
LBHS

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Jay Jakosky’s Summary

Experienced designer and developer of business intelligence tools, data marts and warehouses. An accomplished project manager in ERP development, migration and process integration. A business-focused technologist looking for opportunities to learn and teach. A proven ability to adapt to your business, communicate in your language and work with teams to accomplish big-picture goals.

Successful implementations in warehousing (food/medical/retail), retail sales, food production, publishing, apparel, aerospace quality programs, materials processing, finance, call centers, education and more. ERP projects and BI tools have focused on AR, AP, GL, sales forecasting, financial forecasting, warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, in-house customer service, outside sales force, order entry, process management, human resources, quality control and more.

QlikView Certified Professional (First round recipient, April 2008)
QlikView Certified Developer (November 2008)

Jay Jakosky’s Specialties:

ERP / MRP / WMS / IMS / CRM, business intelligence, data warehousing, data modeling, ETL development, interactive visualization, user interface design, report development, BI infrastructure, database development, project management, developer training, documentation, end-user training

Jay Jakosky’s Experience

Senior Technical Consultant

Pivotal Solutions Group

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Architected QlikView infrastructure in a hosted-application model. Lead application developer.
Senior Consultant

QlikTech

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — October 2007 (4 months)

Consulted to QlikTech's customers on architecture, implementation, application development and training.

"QlikView provides fast, powerful and visual in-memory business analysis – without the limitations, cost or complexity of traditional BI applications. Reporting applications can be deployed in days and users trained in minutes."
-- QlikView.com
ETL Developer

Collect America

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)

Developed ETL with Informatica PowerCenter, PowerExchange, Data Quality, Data Explorer and Identity Resolution.
Consultant

Aerocraft Heat Treating

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

November 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Migrated a legacy COBOL ERP system onto modern hardware. Redesigned the ERP to match the business process for dramatic efficiency gains. Integrated photographs and SCADA data into the ERP to lower labor costs, shorten delivery time and ensure compliance. Developed a customer extranet for self-service status updates and compliance documentation. Implemented an ERP training regimen to support ISO9000. Developed data mart to support Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise initiatives. Developed visual analysis tools and reporting infrastructure.
Senior Consultant

QlikTech

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)
IT Manager

Globe International

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

July 2002 — March 2006 (3 years 9 months)

Migrated 2 ERP systems into a single, 3rd system. Managed ERP development projects including customized order entry, logistics, commissions management and EDI. Developed comprehensive reporting and analysis infrastructure. Drove sales, reduced inventory and saved thousands of man-hours by developing analysis tools including inventory forecasting, product data entry and customer service. Migrated 3 Active Directory domains to a single domain. Managed 3-person team of Windows, Unix, Linux & AS/400 support professionals. Mentored and trained junior-level staff in advanced network and system support. Responsible for $500k budget for telecom & IT.