James Jeude

Current

• Director, Projects at Cognizant Technology Solutions

Past

• Ask.com Search Product Management at Ask.com
• Sales and Business Development at Connotate Technologies
• Product Management at Dun & Bradstreet

• Development at Dun & Bradstreet
• Product Management at IMS Health

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Education

• Iowa State University
• Stevens Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

James Jeude’s Summary

* Information organization and delivery
- proprietary markets
- public sources
- data presentation and formatting
- acquisition, cleansing, and delivery systems for reliable data
- data analytics and data mining
- project management

* Scoring, ranking, and analytical methods
- credit scoring models, marketing attractiveness models, supply chain capacity and optimization models
- text prioritization
- OLAP and analytical integration

* Text-based data mining and delivery
- productizing methods for clustering and deduplication
- development of ranking methods to separate high-importance text from lower importance

* Web data extraction and scraping
- web crawling and web data extraction

James Jeude’s Specialties:

General: Consulting, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing/Mining/Delivery, Product Management, monetizing data sources, hands-on.
Specific: Marketing analyses using visualization and numerical techniques. Text mining and advanced document and text processing. Production and content management methods for large-scale high-availability data and retrieval systems.

James Jeude’s Experience

• Director, Projects

  Cognizant Technology Solutions

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CTSH; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2008 — Present (3 months)

  My focus is on business intelligence and analytics solutions, primarily in the US market.

• Ask.com Search Product Management

  Ask.com

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; IACI; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 5 months)

  A web Search Engine exercises a wide range of interesting technologies to address its business needs. My projects at Ask.com include
  - Image Search Product Manager
  + content management policies and editorial policies
  + scoring and ranking algorithm development and evaluation
  + competitive research
  - Zoom Related Search (suggestions on the left-hand side)
  - Product Manager role in text handling product features
  + news article clustering and deduplication
  + developed News editorial and operational processes
  + recognizing 'core concept' behind text articles
  + prioritizing and ranking news presentation
  
  The functions performed for these projects include
  - Product Management (market analysis, planning, strategy, requirements documents, resource allocation)
  - Project Management
  - Quantitative market research and evaluation
  - Product Management participation in algorithm tuning for ranking and scoring models

• Sales and Business Development

  Connotate Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2003 — April 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  Connotate Technologies provides outstanding web data extraction software and services.
  
  At Connotate, I was responsible for developing business areas of expansion in a variety of financial, catalog, supply chain, and life sciences applications that required reliable data from web extraction. I managed several customer implementations as a pre-sale proof of concept, represented Connotate at trade shows, and developed quantitative methods for automated review of web scraping results.

• Product Management

  Dun & Bradstreet

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DNB; Information Services industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years)

  Marketing Analytics and Market Research
  - developed and launched a successful a web-based workstation product for customers using D&B data in their marketing exercises
  - built production processes for large-scale business demographic data integration with customer data
  - "marketing score" development to calculate customer and prospect attractiveness as an actionable number
  
  Electronic Data Interchange
  - took over an existing electronic data delivery product and doubled revenue through revamped marketing and customer service while reducing headcount by 70% as a result of process reengineering
  
  Supply Management Analytics
  - developed a supply chain and supplier analysis package to help companies quantify and visualize risk and opportunity among their vendors

• Development

  Dun & Bradstreet

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1999 (6 years)

  In reverse chronological order:
  
  Y2K Technical Communications
  
  Chief of Staff for the SrVP of Technology, helping him manage projects, priorities, funding, and amortization schedules for his 150 person staff
  
  Data Mining and Data Analytics for Risk Management
  
  Development of a PC-based credit risk workstation with electronic data integration features, mathematical modeling and 'what if" components, and credit score ranking of receivables and customer contact management for receivables-related issues

• Product Management

  IMS Health

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1993 (5 years)

James Jeude’s Education

• Iowa State University

  BSCE, Computer Engineering

  Activities and Societies:

  HKN (Eta Kappa Nu honor society)

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  MBA,

Additional Information

James Jeude’s Interests:

System Crash:http://www.system-crash.com System Crash is a band that covers songs about humanized computers and computerized humans. Co-founded with a Rutgers Comp Sci Professor in 1997, we have played at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Knitting Factory (NYC), and the Warsaw club and gotten full-page reviews in the Star-Ledger (Newark NJ), New York Times, and New Brunswick Home News Tribune. We were selected as WDHA's Jersey Homegrown artist for airplay after our first CD was released.

James Jeude’s Groups:

•    Data & Text Analytics Professionals (1000+ members)
•    Search Engine Land
•    ASK.COM

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