Principal at The Strong Group
Greater New York City Area
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- Principal at The Strong Group
- Consultant via GLG Councils at Gerson Lehrman Group
- Past
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- VP Operations and Technology [acting] at Aergo Solutions
- Chief Technology Officer at MRU Holdings, Inc.
- President at The Strong Group, Inc
- Director Management Consulting at DMR Group
- Projects Director Northeast Area at CAP Gemini
- Senior Management Consultant at Touche Ross
- Manager of Interactive Systems at RCA
- Independent Software Developer at Jonathan Strong (Self-employed)
- Programmer/Analyst at Girard Bank
- Education
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- Drexel University
- Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis
- University of Pennsylvania
- Fieldston School
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Jonathan Strong’s Summary
Extensive track record of innovation and success identifying and applying the right technologies, methodologies and management approach to solve business challenges great and small.
Senior IT Executive – climbed the ranks to become CTO for financial services firm, CIO for market data startup, VP Technology for health care services company, Director of management consulting for global firm, Regional Projects Director with P&L responsibility for $40 million budget for global consulting firm, president of consulting firm providing support to Fortune 100 and 500. Report to and/or collaborate with C-level executives in each instance.
Hands on Innovator – Bring new approaches and solutions to every challenge. Evaluated and redesigned product and enterprise architecture as well as processes and standards at virtually every job, aligning technology and business. Inventor of BI product at RCA that became a standard at GE, later spun off as Cognos/IBM product. Invented risk architecture for major bank identifying $100 million in bad debt. Designed online gaming community and user experience ranked #1 on Internet in repeat usage by Comscore Media Metrix. Consistent world class results.
Transformational Leader – Quickly assess risks and weaknesses, establishing order, rigor and sustainable success. For Telcordia, directed project “rescue” of online forms architecture and an online purchasing system, allowing it to begin processing $35 million monthly, eliminating 100 paper forms and reducing time and expense by 30%. For national student loan company, moved technology and operations from “ad hoc” to structured and repeatable (CMMi level 3) in eighteen months, allowing the company to pursue a $1 billion loan portfolio while achieving a 200% ROI on technology spend in less than 2 years. Doubled ROI on a $40 million consulting practice in 18 months.
Jonathan Strong’s Specialties:
Inventing new technologies, solutions and applications; Organization development and leadership; Product Development and Program Management; Project planning and management; PMO; Project Portfolio Management; IT/business Alignment; IT Strategic Planning; Consulting; systems development and delivery; research, analysis; design; package evaluation; organization evaluation; BPR; business process redesign; business reengineering; turn arounds.
Jonathan Strong’s Experience
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Principal
The Strong Group
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
The Strong Group provides technology and management advisory services to executive management at clients such as Citibank, Swiss Bank, Standard & Poor’s, Jardine Fleming (Tokyo), Fidelity Management & Research, the NJ Governor’s Management Review Commission, the NJ Chamber of Commerce and Hanson Building Materials.
* Selected to collaborate on a suite of projects to define a comprehensive structured framework for process and program management, planning, metrics, monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement to support school district superintendents. Steering committee includes NJ Dept of Education, school superintendents and university Deans. Information architecture based on industry standards SIF and SCORM for interoperability. -
Consultant via GLG Councils
Gerson Lehrman Group
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
Subject matter and industry expert, offering topical on-demand consulting and advisory services for GLG Council's executive clientele.
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VP Operations and Technology [acting]
Aergo Solutions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 6 months)
Aergo provides technology-based management consulting services combined with outsourced proprietary workflow management technology solutions to implement radical improvement in business processes and profitability for hospitals.
Original technology architect for Aergo’s 1993 startup, I returned temporarily as acting CIO/CTO to take technology and team to the next level, facilitating expected 100% expansion in the next two years.
Selected Results:
- Revamped architecture, procedures and controls to meet HIPAA and SAS70 level II requirements, implementing a new Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity model in the process. Introduced virtualization, cutting costs while improving the ability to test and deploy competing versions of our product.
- Defined a new architecture, blending an operational database, data warehouse and business intelligence based on a column-oriented dbms and open source OLAP engine, user interface leveraging GWT and Flash, and interfaces to support next generation add ons such as cell phones, online PDA’s and Blackberry’s. In one year, repositioned the company’s approach to be competitive with the leading industry contenders. -
Chief Technology Officer
MRU Holdings, Inc.
(Public Company; UNCL; Financial Services industry)
May 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 9 months)
MRU (NASDAQ: UNCL) is a young specialty financial services company that aggressively, and successfully,challenged the status quo in the student loans industry, largely through technology and process innovation that enables and accelerates the implementation of business strategy, reduces overhead and speeds time to market with greater transparency of operations for all levels of management. The company closed more than double the 2nd year volume in loans in its 3rd year, enabled by the technology innovations my team implemented, with better than a 200% ROI on technology investment during this period.
Responsible for all aspects of information, technology, and the staffing and management of these functions across the enterprise.
Selected Results:
- Moved the technology and processes from a CMMi level 1 undefined state to a defined, monitored and managed state at CMMi level 3 in eighteen months while creating a platform to facilitate creation of a billion dollar loan portfolio.
- Implemented changes in staff, infrastructure, software and management processes in one year that enabled the company to handle a level of business an order of magnitude greater than the prior year. Simultaneously acted as lead innovator and architect for all aspects of the system. Achieved extensive growth with 200% ROI in less than two years. -
President
The Strong Group, Inc
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1993 — May 2006 (13 years 5 months)
The Strong Group provides technology and management advisory services to executive management at clients such as Citibank, Swiss Bank, Standard & Poor’s, Jardine Fleming (Tokyo), Fidelity Management & Research, the NJ Governor’s Management Review Commission, the NJ Chamber of Commerce and Hanson Building Materials.
Selected results:
- At S & P Index Svcs, advised in redesign of new IT architecture and methodologies for S&P Global Indices to merge these with Citibank SSB Global Equity Indices.
- Developed a PMO methodology for all software and reengineering projects in the U.S. division of a global bank.
- For the global bank CIO, evaluated the U.S. IT organization, recommending steps to align reengineering efforts with strategic plans.
- For Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia), directed the “project rescue” of a generic electronic forms architecture and an online purchasing system that processes more than $35 million monthly.
- Created www.IonThunder.com, ranked as one of the top 10 gaming sites on the Internet in terms of user satisfaction and repeat usage by Comscore Media Metrix (sold in 2005 to BigFishGames as "atlantis.bigfishgames.com"). -
Director Management Consulting
DMR Group
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1991 — January 1993 (2 years 1 month)
Provided oversight for proposals and project management in the Northeast region, supervising project managers out of New York, New Jersey and parts of New England.
- Guided analysis of the requirements, and the design of the proposed data architecture, for a $25 million project for a client pharmaceutical company’s New Drug Application system.
- Managed and developed the New York City management consulting office and presence. -
Projects Director Northeast Area
CAP Gemini
(Public Company; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1989 — January 1991 (2 years 1 month)
Responsible for the creation and direction of the Project Consulting Practice and PMO in the $40 million northeast consulting region, hiring, certifying and supervising the activities of all project managers in the region. Key player in helping to reposition the firm to compete with the “Big 8” and systems integration firms such as EDS and IBM.
- Refined the company project management and quality assurance methodologies and established them as the new standard to manage the entire portfolio of projects in the Northeast area, improving credibility, reducing risk and increasing profitability.
- Shifted the practice from hourly programming services to full-lifecycle software and management consulting projects, more than doubling the profit margin across the region in less than two years.
- Member of the executive team that integrated the Strategic Planning, Business Reengineering and Information Technology consulting practices firm-wide. -
Senior Management Consultant
Touche Ross
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1986 — January 1989 (3 years 1 month)
Project planning and consulting to senior management in financial services, retail and the public sector. Wrote proposals for IT and management consulting engagements and managed the projects.
- Member of firm-wide review board overseeing training in IT architecture, systems design, expert systems/AI as well as consultative skills.
- Defined and managed the development of the first Executive Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence engagements sold in the Northeast for Touche Ross.
Led mission critical projects to successful conclusions for clients such as:
- the CIO of Eyecare Centers of America
- the Vice Chairman of Fidelity Bank
- NJ Dept of Transportation, creating the Financial Management Information Systems (FMIS)
- NJ Dept of Insurance, designing FEMS, the Financial Examinations and Monitoring System
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Manager of Interactive Systems
RCA
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1980 — January 1986 (6 years 1 month)
Internal consultant to the Chairman, the President and the Director of Financial Reporting at RCA, as well as CFO’s and CTO’s in RCA divisions. Implemented leading edge information technologies to enable corporate goals and objectives. Managed the definition of IT standards and applications used in all 31 of RCA’s divisions.
- Developed the Interactive Invoice System for RCA Service Company, tracking $100 million in government contracts.
- Created the interactive budget management system for RCA Missile and Surface Radar, cutting the business cycle from months to weeks.
- Developed a Fixed Assets Tracking application for RCA UK, Ltd.
- Developed mission-critical systems for the President of NBC Radio, Executive VP of NBC Network Staff, Advertising Director of NBC Sports and the Advertising Director of NBC-TV Channel 4 in NY.
- Managed development of RCA’s global performance reporting and executive information system. -
Independent Software Developer
Jonathan Strong (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1980 — January 1981 (1 year 1 month)
Developed a commercially marketed mainframe business graphics package (“Execuplot”)
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Programmer/Analyst
Girard Bank
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1978 — January 1980 (2 years 1 month)
Responsible for the design and development of the Cayman Islands Branch Accounting system
Co-developed the Prime-Plus retail credit system for Farmer’s Bank of Delaware
Jonathan Strong’s Education
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Drexel University
MBA , Management and Finance , September 1980 — June 1983
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Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis
MS , Modern Psychoanalysis , September 1978 — June 1980
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University of Pennsylvania
BA , Psychology and Cognitive Processes , September 1972 — June 1980
Benjamin Franklin National Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, ranking in top 5% of the class.
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Fieldston School
1966 — 1972
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Jonathan Strong’s Interests:
Innovation, disruptive technologies, Management processes and organizational efficiency, Leading edge technology, strategy development and validation, Martial arts - Jeet Kune Do, Kali/Escrima, Jujitsu, Boxing, Muay Thai kickboxing, Aikido, Kung Fu, Music, Photography
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Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, & Lean Group -
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CIO Exchange -
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Smartphone Professionals (4000+) -
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Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society -
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Pentaho - open source business intelligence -
Ethical Culture Fieldston School -
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Healthcare IT, HIT, EHR : Obtaining Stimulus Grant & Incentive $
Jonathan Strong’s Honors:
Benjamin Franklin National Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (top 5% of class)
Honors program in probability and statistics at City College of New York
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