Jonathan Bier Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Working as the lead architect for Blue Yonder on CI/CD automation for our legacy applications to run in the Azure cloud.• Writing deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions • Writing REST based services to support deployment pipelines• Primary reviewer/code owner for all legacy pipelines• Driving improvement to processes previously established to build world class DevOps organization.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Lead a global team of inbound product managers working on manufacturing planning solutions. • Drove analysis and improvement of gross margin for all planning products. This included changes in deployment architecture and pricing that lead to a 20% improvement in overall gross margin within a 12 month period. • Conducted an evaluation of cloud-based road mapping solutions, drove the selection process, and drove a cross-organizational team of product managers across product areas to deploy Aha! as a standard across the entire organization• Lead inbound/outbound product management for all of Blue Yonder Factory Planning and Scheduling solutions, Network Design Solutions and Sales and Operations Planning solutions.• Lead product management activities to modernize SCPO platform and make it a more cost-efficient architecture for the cloud.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Managing US based R&D for JDA’s manufacturing planning products and world-wide factory solutions teams. Teams consist of 30 individuals including 1 director, 2 managers, 2 JDA Fellows, business analysts, software architects/developers and quality assurance. • Head of Product Management for Factory Planning and Scheduling.• Leading customer engagements to drive value-based innovation. This includes co-development opportunities, product roadmap discussions, customer escalations and special interest groups.• Responsible for ensuring quality, technical delivery, scope, cloud certification, and making sure teams are trained and properly utilizing Scrum/Agile methodologies.• Championing innovation efforts in factory solution including IoT, user interface, and solver in the areas of Machine Learning, AI and OR in partnership with strategic architecture and user experience teams.• Creating strategic product direction and product roadmaps across JDA’s factory solutions in concert with internal stakeholders from our sales and industry teams.• Creating and reviewing quality and agility metrics across product lines and coming up with remediation plans when teams are missing KPI goals.• Leading negotiations on contract renewals and participating in yearly in-person technical reviews with a leading research hospital utilizing JDA scheduling software technology.• Member of team that evaluated 3rd party cloud vendors and member of open source review committee.• Lead cross-functional teams to bring together all JDA manufacturing products into a cohesive suite.• Lead integration of product roadmaps for combined JDA/i2 on factory scheduling.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Lead a team of 25 people with responsibility for product development and product management for the i2 factory scheduling. • Worked with industry heads to produce product roadmaps.• Managed product management, marketing, and sales/implementation support.• Provide annual performance evaluation and compensation reviews.• Continued to contribute technically by writing code and mentoring younger team members.• Work with senior management to implement corporate product/sales strategy.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Managed a distributed team of developers creating packaged scheduling products developed utilizing J2EE and used in the industrial, consumer goods, automotive, and service industries.• Managed delivery and profitability of several simultaneous custom development projects.• Work with product management to determine requirements and schedules.• Worked with UI designers and external contextual design firm to design a new scheduling interface for Sequencer product that replaced Windows desktop.• Wrote HTML based UI screens and ported code from Access to Oracle and DB2 databases.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

• Worked as a technical and project lead deploying scheduling products to Fortune 500 companies in high-tech, automotive, and industrial industries.• Created functional specifications and statements of work.• Customized i2 products, which included, adding new user interfaces, adding new scheduling constraints, adding database integration to legacy systems, and training customers.• Managed deliverables of 3-5 consultants from both i2 and third party vendors.

• Developed manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor industry including MES, Cell Control, and host solutions for SECS based semi-conductor equipment• Lead development of client for three-tier mission critical MES (FACTORYworks). • Designed and developed ActiveX controls which parsed/encoded SECS-2 and VFEI messages and provided multi-threaded communications to support SECS-1 and HSMS protocols.• Assisted with initial design of the Tool Object Model (TOM), which allowed the creation of off-the-shelf equipment interfaces with automated verification.• Maintained and enhanced Graphic toolkit that provided 4-GL language and tools to write equipment interfaces on 7 UNIX platforms and Windows.

• Worked on kernel and layered networking for DG/UX and AOS/VS II• Enhanced and maintained the ONC/NFS product on AOS/VS II. • Ported NFS Network Locking to AOS/VS II (LOCKD/STATD).• Enhanced TCP/NetBIOS to provide name resolution in a subnet environment.• Worked on DG/UX Network Management System for TCP/IP and OSI • Provided support for RPC/XDR over X.25 and MIL Bus for AOS/VS II file sharing.