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worldwide through Sun's Education field sales force and reseller organizations.
One of the important ways that Jay accomplishes mindshare and market share for
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Sun and partner technologies.
In addition to the above, Jay is also driving the implementation of reference architectures
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for university customers.
Also, Jay has been working with various open source communities like JASIG and Kuali
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these communities, and promote these communities within the Sun and partner ecosystems.
Further, Jay has launched the Sun Identity Special Interest Group (http://sun-idsig.org),
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identity solutions can share best practices, etc.
Jay has over 25 years experience in information technology, and has been with Sun for
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to provide superior service to customers.
Before his tenure with Sun, Jay was a Financial Analyst with Intel Corporation for 3 years.
Jay holds a CPA, and obtained his MBA from Case Western Reserve University.
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recognizing and promoting "community power".
My vision for JASIG for the next several years revolves around the belief that the time is now right
for higher education to benefit from the best aspects of "community power" and "commercial power",
as well as expand the footprint of the community itself.
Accordingly, my vision for JASIG can best be described along the following dimensions:
1) JASIG is perceived as a leader in advancing state-of-the art in community source management.
I would love to see JASIG evangelize (at other open source communities and at higher education
conferences) the importance of a well balanced governance and management model - that combines
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source of innovation in education software.
2) JASIG is a prime driver in integrating community source and IT vendor business models to
ensure seamless development, implementation and support of open source systems.
I would like JASIG to drive new approaches in higher ed that would answer the following:
a) How do universities put out RFP's for open source applications?
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infrastructure and with each other?
3) JASIG is a strong voice for community source in emerging markets (Brazil, Russia, India, China),
and JASIG membership in these countries grows exponentially over the next several years.
My leadership characteristics and approaches that would contribute to the success of the Board:
a) Ability to articulate a vision and rally people around it; this is demonstrated by my experience
pushing Sun to pay more attention and commit more funds to open source communities
(we are now a Kuali Commercial Affiliate).
b) Skilled at building bridges between conflicting points of view - by stressing common ground
and shared goals.
c) Effective communication and selling skills - to represent JASIG at Sun (and other commercial
entities) - in order to secure support and resources.
d) Understanding of "emerging country" cultures which will help promote JASIG in these markets.