Jay is a Learning and Development expert, recognized for his accomplishments by employers and peers for many years in Silicon Valley. He has extensive management experience leading departments and programs at Intel, Nortel, Tandem, Altera and Philips Medical. In addition to his in- house experience, Jay has provided performance improvement services to many large and small companies, such as; Gilead Sciences, Roche, and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Avery Dennison, Raychem, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and others.
Jay has hands-on experience with most corporate functions; technical services, manufacturing, R&D, leadership development, sales, finance, marketing, and customer service. He is certified with several assessment tools, including ECI 360, Meyers Briggs, Keirsey Temperament Sorter II, and CPI 260, as well as numerous other instruments. He also is certified to train in several programs, such as Situational Leadership, Influencing, Negotiation and his own custom programs.
He has personally started up training programs for three major corporations and is expert in building strategies, identifying critical needs, and designing curricula, and implementing programs. Jay is a pioneer in the use and development of e-learning and the sophisticated use of blended learning practices we accept as common in the L&D world today.
He holds a Masters degree in Psychology from the University of West Georgia.
