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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.