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JC–01 Product · Technology · Transformation

Make complex systems move.

I lead product, technology, and transformation work where strategy has to survive contact with operations—and where a useful outcome matters more than the performance of innovation.

See the work Talk about the hard thing
Operator’s perspectiveBuilder’s instincts
Chicago area · Working remotely
01Buildproducts, platforms, and operating capability
02Modernizeworkflows, architecture, and vendor models
03Recoverdelivery plans, reliability, and ownership
04Shipunder operational and external constraints

01 Operating principle

Strategy has to survive contact with reality.

My best work begins when the stakes are real, the system crosses organizational boundaries, and the answer cannot live in a slide deck. I connect the decision, the operating model, and the build path so teams can move.

02 Career signal

The medium changed. The instinct didn’t.

The work moved from physical production and graphic systems into web, mobile, application development, platforms, enterprise operations, and ventures. The recurring instinct was to understand the system and make it work.

  1. 2025–Now

    JMC Ventures Group

    Executive Technology Advisor

    Advisory + ventures

  2. 2023–2025

    United Airlines

    Director, IT Application Development – Crew Technologies

    Enterprise applications

  3. 2018–2023

    Elemento Media

    VP, IT Application Development & Product Management

    Applications + product

  4. 2011–2018

    Adtalem / DeVry

    Senior Manager, IT Application Development – Digital Experience

    Digital platforms

Earlier chaptersProduction · Creative systems · Web

2006–2011

Capps Digital / Arc Worldwide → Career Education Corp.

Project manager · Web developer

1997–2005

Performance Printing → PaperCity Magazine

Digital prepress director → Production director & systems administrator

1993–1997

Lions Clubs International → Seven Worldwide

Conventional prepress → Digital I/O manager & graphic artist

03 Selected interventions

Things made real.

01

Built

The first iOS and Android applications for DeVry, Keller, and Chamberlain, developed and launched within two months.

Mobile product delivery · Adtalem / DeVry
02

Connected

Reusable REST and OpenAPI services that removed repeated identity and data-access logic across teams.

Platform architecture · Adtalem / DeVry
03

Compressed

Annual student-finance regulatory updates from months of work to roughly a two-week sprint.

Modernization and operating design · Adtalem / DeVry
04

Recovered

An under-scoped airline contract delivery model, then delivered every assigned technology commitment on time.

Mission-critical delivery · United Airlines
05

Building

TrackRivals across mobile, telemetry, APIs, cloud services, persistence, and event-day workflows.

Active product development · JMC Ventures Group

04 Current fieldwork

Advising. Building. Preserving.

Advising

JMC Ventures Group

Practical product and technology leadership for consequential work.Visit the company

Building

TrackRivals

A motorsports platform in active development, shaped around real capture, persistence, recovery, and event-day usability.

Preserving

A life recorded on tape

MiniDV footage, car culture, track experiences, and personal history being reviewed for a selective public archive.

05 The archive

Some stories need context before they need an audience.

I spent years keeping a deliberately small public footprint while documenting a remarkable amount of life offline. The early-2000s Houston car scene, driving-school footage, builds, travel, and the people around it all exist on tape and disk.

Selected material will appear only after it has been reviewed, restored, and given the context—and permissions—it deserves.

06 Start here

Bring me the thing that isn’t moving.

If you are working through product direction, modernization, an AI-enabled workflow, or a system no one owns end to end, send me the real problem.

jeff@jeffreycollier.com