Senior Systems Engineer at LiquidPoint
Greater Chicago Area
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- Senior Systems Engineer at LiquidPoint
- Independent Consultant at HotQuant
- Past
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- VP Operations at ProfitRank, Inc.
- Director of Operations at The Service Exchange, LLC
- VP of Operations at e-Insure Services, Inc.
- Chief Engineer at Nova Navigation, LLC
- General Manager at Bally Total Fitness
- Chairman & CTO at Fairygod, Inc.
- Group Safety Officer & Joint Forces Korea Liaison at Naval Surface Group, Pacific Northwest
- Safety Department Head at USS Sacramento (AOE-1)
- Auxiliaries Officer at USS Independence (CV-62)
- Undersea Warfare Officer at USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60)
- Education
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- United States Naval Academy
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Jason Williscroft’s Summary
I am a former U.S. Marine and Naval Officer with a degree in Control Systems Engineering, a great deal of experience in applied engineering and finance, and a talent for getting things done.
Some highlights:
- Served as an enlisted Marine for three years before receiving an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1991, where I studied engineering and raced sailboats offshore.
- Accepted a U.S. Navy commission in 1995, and served with distinction aboard a variety of surface ships and shore stations, mostly in the Far East and the Persian Gulf, until resigning my commission in 2000.
- Stood up a successful financial services firm in 2000 to manage a family of hedge funds based on quantitative models I developed while in the Navy.
- Recruited by Bally Total Fitness following the market collapse of 2001, along with a number of other former military officers, to bring a fresh management style to Bally facilities.
- Joined online insurance marketplace e-Insure Services in 2003 to develop, implement, and operate a next-generation technology platform. Over three years, my work produced an average overall net growth of 153%.
- Left e-Insure in 2006 to focus on a number of technology-related projects, including a pulsar-based alternative to GPS and a sophisticated professional lead-generation service.
Jason Williscroft’s Specialties:
- Leadership & project mgmt.
- Business analysis, requirements development & software architecture.
- Data modeling & database design.
- Office Automation, .NET Framework, BASIC, Forth, Lisp, Pascal, ANSI C, C++, C#, T-SQL, HTML, JavaScript, XSLT, MatLab/Simulink, Mathematica & Gauss.
- Design & construction of systems for data collection/analysis & real-time control.
- Mathematical modeling of classical & stochastic systems.
- Talented writer & editor, gifted public speaker.
Jason Williscroft’s Experience
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Senior Systems Engineer
LiquidPoint
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (9 months)
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Independent Consultant
HotQuant
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — Present (6 years)
HotQuant is my own consultancy, which serves as a convenient umbrella for a number of projects.
- Designed & implemented functional enhancement of a leading mathematical tool suite.
- Developed and published influential white paper outlining a national shipping container security system.
- Conducted research into sensor fusion techniques for the U.S. Navy. -
VP Operations
ProfitRank, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 5 months)
ProfitRank is an Internet Marketing agency specializing in search & affiliate marketing. Operations are split between the U.S. and India. In addition to managing day-to-day operations, I develop and implement the quantitative techniques that ProfitRank uses to optimize sponsored search bidding.
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Director of Operations
The Service Exchange, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
The Service Exchange was conceived to explore the possibility of leveraging the collective expertise of a nationwide network of service providers in insurance, finance, real estate, and law to generate and sell highly targeted sales leads for their products.
- Designed a next-generation lead delivery system aimed at providing precise demographic matching between prospective clients and service providers in insurance, finance, real estate, and law.
- Conceived, implemented, and managed a sophisticated quantitative model to manage and maximize returns on national pay-per-click marketing campaign.
- Contributed editorial polish to dozens of product descriptions, interviews, and feature articles reaching a broad national audience.
- Provided operational support in a highly mobile team environment, including network admini-stration, communications management, and physical and data security. -
VP of Operations
e-Insure Services, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Insurance industry)
2003 — 2006 (3 years)
e-Insure Services is an online insurance marketplace offering 50+ insurance products to consumers and businesses. I came aboard in 2003 to develop and operate e-Insure's next-generation platform.
- Developed and implemented a sophisticated web application on an ASP.NET and .Text platform.
- Handled all operational aspects of the company, including technology, sales, marketing, business development, and strategic planning.
- Conceived and implemented a theory of operation that produced an average net growth over three years of 153%. -
Chief Engineer
Nova Navigation, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
Nova Navigation was engaged in the pure-research phase of a project aimed at producing a viable pulsar-based alternative to the Global Positioning System. Some highlights:
- Developed a number of novel theoretical approaches to the detection and timing of very weak, periodic signals cloaked in high levels of background noise.
- Developed and implemented software platforms to simulate and test these approaches in the laboratory.
- Developed and built hardware platforms to test these approaches in both laboratory and field conditions.
- Primary tools included MatLab, Mathematica, SQL Server, and sensors and signal conditioning hardware from various sources. -
General Manager
Bally Total Fitness
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; BFT; Recreational Facilities and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Responsible for operation and maintenance of $10 million facility, including generation of $3 million in annual revenue and servicing of 15,000 members.
Led over 40 employees and management staff, slashing turnover in most volatile positions and significantly enhancing employee morale and quality of service.
Global improvements resulted in immediate and across-the-board increases in all monthly revenue metrics compared to the previous year, on the order of 25%. -
Chairman & CTO
Fairygod, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Management industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Assembled and led executive team of nationally prominent professionals. Planned, structured, and positioned family of hedge funds in Washington State.
Developed mathematical model for trading equity markets. Designed and implemented automated stock market trading system using C++, Hyperfeed Server, and Microsoft Office Automation. -
Group Safety Officer & Joint Forces Korea Liaison
Naval Surface Group, Pacific Northwest
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Primary contact for supply ships comprising Naval Surface Group, Pacific Northwest, in all issues regarding industrial and environmental safety and hazard abatement, hazardous materials, and hazardous waste management. Served roughly a quarter of the U.S. surface fleet.
Consulted with Joint Operations Officer, U.S. Forces, Korea, regarding specifications for a command tactical data suite supporting future joint combat operations in the Korean theater. -
Safety Department Head
USS Sacramento (AOE-1)
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Directly administered nineteen separate programs involving industrial and environmental safety and hazard abatement, hazardous materials, and hazardous waste management for customer base including own crew of 850 as well as nearly thirty other ships routinely serviced by Sacramento.
Implemented and completed dramatic reorganization that significantly improved operational efficiency. Reengineering efforts resulted in 50% decrease in safety and hazardous material mishaps, slashed mishap response times, and signifi-cantly improved customer satisfaction. -
Auxiliaries Officer
USS Independence (CV-62)
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
Led team of 85 in maintenance and operation of $250 million in dry cleaning, air conditioning, cryogenic, hydraulic, diesel power generation, and other equipment aboard oldest active commissioned vessel in U.S. Navy.
Served as Port Hangar Bay Damage Control Locker Leader. Coordinated overall firefighting effort involving hundreds of fueled aircraft, encompassing nearly a quarter the ship’s total volume.
Maintained employee retention rate at half again industry average despite extreme operational requirements under protracted combat conditions. -
Undersea Warfare Officer
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60)
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years)
Led team of 20 in maintenance and operation of $20 million in sonar and torpedo equipment, meeting all organizational goals and training objectives despite significant budget variations.
Developed and implemented computer tactical decision aids that significantly improved ship's ability to track and prosecute enemy submarine contacts.
Jason Williscroft’s Education
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United States Naval Academy
BS, Systems Engineering, 1991 — 1995
Studied analog and digital control system design, testing, and implementation.
Conducted original research in autonomous robotic systems.
Studied Russian history, language, and culture, with particular application to US national security.- Activities and Societies:
- Offshore Sailing Team, Honor Board.
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Jason Williscroft’s Interests:
- Science & technology. - Politics & military affairs. - High-endurance sailboat racing. - Long-distance mountaineering. - SCUBA diving. - Fine cuisine... production AND consumption! :)
Jason Williscroft’s Groups:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Adventurers Club of Chicago
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Surface Warfare Officer
Jason Williscroft’s Honors:
1998 - Qualification, Navy Safety Officer (Norfolk, Virginia)
1997 - Qualification, Surface Warfare Officer (Yokosuka, Japan)
1996 - Qualification, Anti-Submarine Warfare Evaluator (San Diego, California)
1990 - One of 40 U.S. Marines nominated by Secretary of the Navy to attend U.S. Naval Academy. Also nominated by sitting Speaker of the House Tom Foley and U.S. Senator Slade Gorton.
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