Jeff has been an active contributor in the computer industry since he graduated with a BSEE from Kansas University in 1984.  He started building databases then at Dysan disk mfg. using dBase on CPM systems to assist in his process engineering management position and has been building solutions in a variety of technologies ever since.

At Texas Instruments, Jeff lead logistic support teams supporting avionics computers on a variety of US Navy jets and assisted the expansion to the ELS Tornado.  Jeff’s Life Cycle Cost analysis lead to the redesign of the HARM avionics computer to simplify the overall support model, eliminating the need for large, expensive, complex, carrier-based test suites.  His efforts in ISO 9000 quality certification and customer service garnered him the coveted Quality of Excellence Award. Jeff finished his time at TI managing the VAX data center and production compute environments.

While working full time as a Systems Engineer for Ford, he received his MSCS from UCCS – concentrating on database technologies. While at Ford, he used SAS, php and Oracle on HPUX to build a data warehouse and a variety of OLAP, ETL, and SPC Management Information systems with web presentation for silicon manufacturing operations.  He also managed the data center, bridging VMS, Windows, and unix/linux environments to provide incident reporting, automated data collection and defect analysis, and unified email.  Near the end of his tenure at Ford, he joined the CAD systems group as design environment owner and gatekeeper and was part of the design team sold to Intel to focus on Blackberry custom analog and mixed-signal design solutions. 

At Intel and Marvel, Jeff lead engineering efforts to streamline and automate the design process while providing leading edge collaboration technologies and 24/7 customer support for an internationally acclaimed, geographically disbursed engineering design teams.

In 2009, he joined McNeil Technologies as a DBA supporting the 561st INOSC West at Peterson Field where he tackled sql server performance issues, developed a new firewall parsing capability in perl/php/mysql, stood up new development environments with IIS and SQL Server, and converted most of the daily asp ticket monitoring applications from vb to c#.net.  Within a year, he was promoted to team leader for the web services and network monitoring teams where he partnered with SMEs to develop secure Intranet dashboards, and planned for the future of enterprise wide incident reporting and network management. 

At Serco, Jeff was an asp.NET project team leader reverse engineering an enterprise-wide Remedy tracking application and delivering a comprehensive c# custom solution for the USAF 24th and JTF-GNO.

At PGI, Jeff was the Billing Production Support Manager and lead a team of 3 engineers to provide 24x7 support for finance teams in the US, Ireland and Hong Kong.  Jeff developed asp.NET dashboards, documented manual processes, initiated collaboration and ticketing infrastructures, automated reporting and alerting systems, and collaborated on technology refreshes and system redesigns. 

At TAEUS, Jeff researched and analyzed commercial technologies for patent infringement. Jeff also built a software teardown lab using microsoft virtual technologies. Jeff's skills were eventually tapped by the CEO to build a custom .net tracking application prototype using MVC and EF5 technologies hosted on Azure for a new startup endeavor.

In his role as LAMP developer at Comcast, Jeff filled an automated audit gap with a php GUI and the HPNA Opsware (perl) API to provide a simple and effective SOA capability.

At KBRWyle (formerly Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.) jeff is part of a virtual engineering team developing tools for FAA's NextGen ADS-B program.

In 1994, Jeff started JLS Enterprises, Inc. a small business endeavor to consult on Information Technology projects.  These projects include Intellectual Property research, hardware builds, virtual technology integration, database tracking and MRP systems software development, system hardening, and establishing web presence. One of his favorite projects was reverse engineering DoubleSpace to uncover an unlicensed use of LZW compression technology. The end result was Microsoft's purchase of Stacker.
Jeff also taught a university BASIC course, and frequently trains users and developers on database development, custom environment processes and general computing techniques.

In each of these endeavors, Jeff used his engineering and presentation skills to bridge gaps in understanding and empower users to leverage technology to maximize process efficiencies and product quality.