Jack Austin

Education

Graduate in Keck (2017 - 2017)
Institute Of Applied Life Sciences

Master of Bioscience in Business and Bioprocessing (2017 - 2017)
Willamette University

Bachelor of Arts in Biology (2017 - 2017)
Willamette University

Experience

Director of Strategy at Receivables Performance Management (Oct 2012 - Present)
* Determine and implement strategy for liquidating large debt portfolios. * Develop and implement management tools and systems to increase performance and results. * Vendor management and analysis. * Managing email/letter campaigns and responsible for profitability. * Develop custom scoring models to direct work effort on debt portfolios. * Project management, process development, and implementation.

Project Manager / Consultant at Tactical Management Consulting (Aug 2011 - Present)
* Develop and maintain relationships with clients and determine business/management needs. * Financial modeling and analysis. * Provide strategic consulting, asset consulting, and performance management consulting. * Responsible for building financial models for large capital projects: $80M+

Management Consultant at Pöyry Management Consulting North America (Jul 2010 - Aug 2011)
* Perform assessments and analysis of management systems and their financial implications. * Redesign and implementation of management systems to improve decision making, develop a continuous improvement culture, and focus on key performance drivers. * Management coaching and the development of management training material. * Managed and led redesign meetings to identify and define performance indicators. * Developed and implemented a quality assurance program and trained managers to focus on quality in addition to safety, value, recovery, and production * Provided business analysis and optimization recommendations to senior management in board room settings. * Identified over $500,000 of financial impacts from process changes, presented these impacts to senior management, and assisted in implementing these improvements.

Plant Manager / Process Development / Business Development at Beaver Biodiesel (Feb 2009 - Jul 2010)
* Investigate and improve production processes and lead on the ground bio-fuel production. * Designed and implemented quality testing procedures to ensure fuel compliance with ISO and ASTM standards. * Created standard operating procedures and hire and train employees.

Chief Technology Officer / Manager of Strategic Development at TerraFuels (Jun 2007 - Feb 2009)
* Responsible for managing the development and modeling of complex alternative energy projects. * Created financial projections and interfaced with investors and potential investors. * Successfully presented technical information in an understandable way to non-technical investors.

Project Manager at Northrop Grumman (Aug 2006 - May 2007)
* Co-managed a team to design and test a component to be used in a classified defense system. * Provided statistical analysis of findings. * Succeeded in organizing business related research and laboratory studies, ran design meetings, led meetings with the company liaison and advanced the team ahead of schedule.

Marketing Intern at IntelliDOT (May 2006 - Aug 2006)
Completed multiple projects in marketing, market analysis to determine market growth rate and competitor penetration, ghost writing, generation of sales leads, and the creation of sales tools.

Analyst at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences - IP Committee (Jan 2006 - May 2006)
* Provided market analysis by interviewing key opinion leaders and analyzing the size and structure a market for novel software intellectual property. * Provided capitalization strategy for software IP by analyzing how similar intellectual property succeeded or failed, analyzing the market into which the IP would be released, and comparing possible scenarios to determine the most rewarding strategy