Jelle Ferwerda Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Created, founded, and serves as President and CEO for LogicNets, Inc. LogicNets is committed to revolutionizing the way domain experts can create and deploy powerful rules based applications themselves without the use of programmers. The "LogicNets" platform is used across a wide range of industries where there is a need for rapidly deployable and up-to-date decision support and process automation. Many of these applications have been deployed on a large scale and perform mission-critical functions for prominent organizations both in North America and Europe. • Lead effort securing investment from ICT-Automatisering (XAMS:ICT)• Negotiated strategic partnerships with: CGI Federal, Inficon, ICT-Automatisering, Cigital • Launched health care oriented vertical focusing on clinical decision support applications with customers such as: UpToDate (WoltersKluwer), UCSF Medical Center, Rome Foundation and the Dutch Pathology Foundation (Palga)• Launched manufacturing oriented vertical focusing on technical support applications with customers such as: Ford Motor Company, Texas Instruments, Thermo King Corporation, Ingersoll Rand• Additionally works with customers such as: Securities and Exchange Commission, IBM, Davis Polk Wardell and ProRail• Successfully negotiated a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (SAA) signed with the National Air and Space Agency (NASA) to jointly develop extensions to the LogicNets application for scientific uses

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Developed the software for, founded, and led a knowledge management software company with customers that included the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), British Council, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), and the Non-Profit Risk Management Center (NRMC).• Architected and managed the development of knowledge management and automated communication packaged software application.• Initiated and managed alliances with software services companies that included Operational Technology Services (OTS), OMNI-Engineering, and Reflexis.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed a research and innovation team of 8 consultants and software developers for one of the world’s leading providers of scalable enterprise business solutions. Identified and developed new enterprise performance measurement software applications.• Served as functional and technical advisor for Baan's acquisition of software companies.• Initiated and managed strategic research alliances with universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technologies (MIT), Amsterdam University (VU), and Technical University Eindhoven (TUE).• Represented Baan as a speaker about new development initiatives at sales, technology, and customer conferences.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Served as functional architect of the Baan Workflow management application for Baan, which is active in more than 60 countries, with 4,500 employees and 5,000 customer sites.• Managed a project team of 15 software developers.• Led the team in the design and development of Baan's business process modeling application.• Coordinated workflow management efforts in $1 billion financial industry tender.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As part of the Science & Technology Office in the Dutch embassy, worked to strengthen the climate of innovation, improve fiscal incentive for research and development, and develop collaboration and policy to encourage high-tech start-ups and knowledge-intensive business activity in the Netherlands. • Researched and published information in an economic affairs trade magazine concerning the US workflow management market and all current developments in that arena.• Actively brokered research and technology collaboration relationships between Dutch and American companies.

Netherands, Velzen

Designed and implemented a corrosion and erosion prediction model for the K14 offshore gas installation for Shell U.K. Exploration and Production (Shell Expro) and its sister company in the Netherlands, Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (NAM), the largest gas producer in the Netherlands.• Developed corrosion and erosion predictive models for offshore gas installations.• Led a team of engineers at offshore gas installations to validate and test predictive models.

Netherlands, Heerhugowaard

As part of this recognized leader in drill string equipment technology, which designs and manufactures high-quality drill string components and high-performance tools, implemented an ISO 9001 quality system to ensure complete adherence to this standard. • Updated and computerized new business procedures to support ISO 9001 standards.• Trained employees on ISO 9001-specific procedures.

Msc, Technology Management, Msc

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Bsc