Jay Chambers Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Irving, TX

• Lead the software and data development units of the Data Engineering Group responsible for entity recognition and persistent keying systems that directly contribute to more than $250 million in annual revenue as part.
• Drive the vision and strategic direction for global batch and transactional systems as well as the SDLC, business continuity and production delivery systems using Agile methods.
• Lead a team of 30 associates including software developers, data analysts, business systems analysts, product managers, testers, and support personnel.
• Design and manage a complex environment of hardware and software across multiple worldwide data centers blending a variety of technologies (e.g. VMware, TIBCO,.Net, Java, REST, Oracle, MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra.
• Negotiate and act as the contract officer for 3rd-party software and data licensing deals including USPS NCOA/DSF, Faircom, and SAP.
• Administer an annual budget of $10 million and participate in the strategic planning processes for the organization.

Little Rock, AR

• Led the Global Name and Postal Technologies Unit responsible for global name and address technology systems that directly contributed to more than $200 million in annual revenue as part of Acxiom’s Customer Data.
• Designed, coded, and managed the reengineering of many of the company’s name and address technology systems from a mainframe to a grid-based server environment.
• Led a team of 30 people including software developers, product managers, testers, logistics, and support personnel through many changes in organizational alignment, technology visions, and operating environments.
• Successfully collaborated with associates at Acxiom locations around the world including China, Australia, and many countries in Europe to create a virtual development team that delivered the Global Customer Data.
• Negotiated and acted as the contract officer for 3rd-party software and data licensing deals including USPS NCOA/ DSF and Group1/Pitney Bowes.
• Represented Acxiom on the PostCom Board of Directors, Universal Postal Union (UPU) S42 Workgroup, and the USPS Mailer’s Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC).

Memphis, TN

• Acted as a liaison between USPS management and over 1,000 commercial mail automation hardware and software vendors and their customers at the National Customer Support Center.
• Designed, coded and led key software development and quality certification projects including the ZIP+4 address matching system and the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS), the Postal Service's quality certification.
• Led a team of 20 associates including software engineers, product analysts/testers, and customer service representatives responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting the AMS and CASS certification.
• Designed, coded and implemented a quality control system for the ZIP+4 File, a 30 million record database containing all addresses in the country. The system was used to identify and report all database deficiencies to.
• Administered an annual budget of $2 million and participated in the strategic planning processes for the Address Management Systems (AMS) organization.

Mba, Telecommunications And Information Systems Management, 3.8

Bs, Computer Science