John Jackson
Seventeen years of leadership: Director, Manager, Program Manager, Officer, Liaison, Engineer, and Communications professional. Currently working as Director of Operations at IE Discovery.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://thinkering.ning.com/ |
| Industries: | Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Gaming, Information Technology |
| Skills: | Business, Computer Engineering, Design, Engineering, English, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Engineering, Languages, Law, Leadership, Litigation, Management, Product design, Recruitment |
| Location: | Austin, TX |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | cars, computers, electric, green, motorcycles, solar, technology |
| Schools: | Southern Methodist University, United States Naval Academy |
FULL BIO
SUMMARY
• Seventeen years of leadership: Director, Manager, Program Manager, Officer, Liaison, Engineer, and Communications professional.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Engineering: COMPUTER SCIENCE, ELECTRICAL, AEROSPACE, NUCLEAR, AND MECHANICAL
• High-tech: C4ISR/Operations/IT/Security/Systems Integration
• Wide ranging experience: people oriented manager with keen government proposals/pricing and business case acumen, engineering lifecycle management, manufacturing, space operations, and industrial ship repair.
• Critical thinker with high energy and passion. Adaptive with “Can-do” attitude.
• Top Secret SSBI, cleared for SCI
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | IE Discovery |
| Position: | Director of Operations |
| Time period: | June 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Executive member of privately held company. Responsible for operations pertaining to and in support of customer deliverables, eDiscovery, application development, professional and legal services. Leads company efforts to standardize, streamline production and execution costs, aligns internal resources to best support customer needs, and to develop internal resources to be constantly vigilant to seek new ways to improve and therefore provide the best value to our customers.
• Manages >100 resources that generate in excess of $17M a year • Government and Commercial financial P&L experience • Mentor for Lean Six Sigma, BPI, and other process improvement methods leading to efficiencies and cost benefits • Customer focused and Value driven. |
| Employer: | Spawar Reserves |
| Position: | IT Director |
| Time period: | October 2004 - Present |
| Description: | IT Director for SPAWAR RESERVE Virtual Program Office. Manages relationship between US Navy, SPAWAR, end-users, stakeholders, and third part contractors for general use, administration, upkeep, upgrade, and break-fix initiatives.
• Incorporates real-time support for Naval Reserve Program personnel in daily administration, support, and execution. • Manages policy, integration, reporting, and information management for program tools and procedures. • Manages part-time staff, responsible for day-to-day operations and support of applications. |
| Employer: | Lucent Technologies |
| Position: | Senior Manager |
| Time period: | June 2004 - June 2006 |
| Description: | As Senior Manager of Operations and PMO, supervises overall day-to-day operations of startup subsidiary. Responsible for new business development, proposal draft and response, pricing, and capture efforts within small federal group. Active member of proposal teams for over a dozen large government contracts. Customer focused. Responsible for P&L, manpower, policy, recruiting strategy, and practices.
• Senior Operations Manager for organization that doubled manpower and revenue annually. • Flexible management style with strong focus on ROI, growth with integrity, and leadership. • Experience within Intel, DOD, DHS, Civilian contracting • Team lead for Lucent Associates Council (Executive Levels) |
| Employer: | Dell Inc |
| Position: | Program Manager |
| Time period: | April 1999 - June 2004 |
| Description: | Program Manager in large Enterprise Professional services group. Responsible for managing Storage and Server products from “Concept to Fielding” in the Dell Services line of business. Led process improvement initiatives, and served as subject matter expert for server and storage technologies, architectures, and applications. Routinely crossed organizational boundaries and lines of business to achieve organizational success.
• Organizational lead that doubled revenue annually while maintaining margins >45%. • Improved Partner/Channel management, new product operations, training, and preparation of fielding teams. • Led BPI/Six Sigma style project team. Managed team chartered with improving Dell workforce culture within the services group. • As Project manager of hardware and software development teams. Delivered two $100M+ revenue projects on reduced schedule and costs. Set new standards for Server and Storage platform development with OEM/ODM vendors. • First-hand knowledge of board design, manufacturing, and developmental testing. Full System integration experience: concept to validation to fielding. • Dell Product Group, Enterprise Server and Storage Group, Dell Services, Dell Manufacturing • SKU/BOM/Pricing/SOW/OEM/ODM/Vendor Management • Agile/Ariba/I-Drive/Test Director Experience/web applications |
| Employer: | Naval Space Command |
| Position: | Operations/Intel Analyst |
| Time period: | December 1997 - April 1999 |
| Description: | Gained thorough knowledge of space systems, C4ISR systems, and operation and control of space assets. Served as Staff Specialist, Operations Analyst, Shift Supervisor in 24/7 Ops center, and on call member for crisis action team (CAT)
• Global UHF communications Program Manager responsible for 0perations, sustaining, procurement, and maintenance for Hardware/Software Solution. ($4M Program) • Revitalized an outdated training program and implemented new procedures that reduced man-hour expenditures. • 24/7 OPS Center Supervisor responsible for supporting Navy and Marine Corps customer with several Navy products. |
| Employer: | U.S. Naval Nuclear Submarine Force |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | July 1992 - April 1997 |
| Description: | Gained expert knowledge of design and operation of engineering plant and ship equipment. Implemented extensive preventive and corrective maintenance programs. Served as ship nuclear power plant supervisor during both shutdown maintenance and operational periods.
• Hand picked to manage and coordinate overhaul activities for the USS Memphis. • Greatly improved the strained shipyard/ship relationship and improved work processing proficiency by 50%. This directly resulted in accelerating the ship's completion and saving the Navy millions of dollars; cited for superior performance. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Southern Methodist University |
| Time period: | 2001 |
| Degree: | Telecommunications, MSc |
| University: | United States Naval Academy |
| Time period: | 1992 |
| Degree: | Aerospace Engineering , BSc |
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