Meet the Team

Jay Cohen is a successful Chief Information Officer (CIO) with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry is skilled at leading the development, deployment, and support of robust technical solutions, systems administrations, and architectures; he works across multiple industries and platforms. Offering a unique combination of strategic technology vision, business acumen, and tactical leadership to consistently deliver, plan, and bring value to the organization.

Business-Aligned IT Strategy: Building relationships with business stakeholders to know and understand the critical goals of the business to create an IT strategy that has improved stakeholders’ satisfaction.

Information Security Strategy: Mr. Cohen can build Information security strategies to ensure that organizations are secure from internal and external threats, including ransomware attacks. 

IT Budgeting: Build a budget from 2 Million to over 30 Million to support the IT projects and help find cost-cutting measures to reduce expenses as needed. I have monitored the funding and projects to stay within budgeting guidelines. 

Project Portfolio Management (PPM): Creating a plan for Project Managers and Project Manager Organizations to analyze the potential return on undertaking projects and prioritize them accordingly. 

Disaster Preparedness / Business Continuity Planning: Building / Testing / Verifying / Reviewing plans to ensure they will be helpful for the organizations during times of need. 

Cloud Readiness:  Working with business stakeholders to build a cloud vision to know and understand all the benefits and the actual value of each cloud project. 

Data Governance: created the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data and produced the internal data standards and policies that also control data usage. Setup policies ensure that data is consistent and trustworthy, and not misused.

Application Rationalization: Set up policies and procedures to review applications’ value to organizations to prevent application sprawl from reducing supporting non-critical applications. 

IT Asset Management Hardware / Software: Utilizing programs for asset management of hardware and software assets across enterprises. Which helps understand better where the assets are and how effective they are for the enterprise. 

Cybersecurity Awareness: Created training programs to make employees aware of security threats such as phishing, ransomware, and viruses and how to handle them. 

Vendor Management: Created a process to review the performance of vendors, negotiate better services and understand their usefulness to the organization. 

Change Management Process (Human Side): Working with end-users to educate and help them understand new changes, setting up a transparent process so everyone knows what is happening. 

Enterprise Systems Innovation: Mr. Cohen has a track record for implementing cutting-edge solutions that solve business issues while controlling costs and risk, advanced knowledge in cloud and virtualization architectures, and Enterprise-wide initiatives. 

Cloud Architecture: Proven track record in designing / Implementing, and Monitoring cloud technologies on VMWare and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Technology Services Expertise: Across multiple industries, and understand the various lines of business, system requirements, compliance, and regulations—strong technical background in infrastructure technologies and planning. 

Project Management (PM) / Project Management Organization (PMO): Solid foundation of project initiation, planning, budgeting, monitoring, configuration management, risk identification, verification, testing, and remediation with a strong emphasis on coordination and reporting skills. Planned projects over 3 Million. 

People Management: motivating leaders who have built, developed, and managed high-performing IT teams. Solid interpersonal skills with an ability to establish strong partnerships with stakeholders. Ability to work with internal technical resources and cross-organizational departments and business lines. 

Business Analyst: Documentation and business requirement skills, advanced analysis skills across all integrated Oracle modules and partner interfaces. Ability to perform and document complex data analysis across multiple system platforms. 

Software Development: Have a clear understanding of software development and the SLDC process. I have worked alongside and with development in object-oriented Java development and have personal experience in Objective C and Swift development for iPhone applications. 

Expertise in: Strategic IT planning of enterprises, data center, and virtualization architectures. Risk and cost controls; Harvesting relationships and customer management; change management; quality management; staff development and leadership; project management; solution testing, resource, and management. 

Accomplished Speaker: Presentation and Speaking skills. I have given lectures on black empowerment, cloud computing, and the benefits for small businesses. 

Lead System Administration: Led teams and mentored Jr. Administrators, improving overall quality and performance through shell scripting, creating tools to monitor and check the health of the systems, setting up SLAs, and setting up career path training programs.