JAY P. KRESHEL

San Jose, CA  95125   ·   408.293.5475   ·    jay@kreshel.com

P&L Responsibilities / eLearning Management / Employee Readiness / Partner Empowerment / Training Analytics / Curriculum Design, Development and Delivery / Customer Satisfaction / Product Marketing / Strategic Planning / Learning Management System Deployment / Sales Training / Leadership Training / Organizational Compliance / Group Facilitation / Event Planning / Conference Management

Proven Record of Accomplishment: I am skilled in all areas of learning management, including strategic analysis, instructional design, curriculum development, content delivery, and training analytics. I possess rich experience with P&L and customer satisfaction. I have consistently exceeded company expectations in bookings, revenue, and profitability.

Education Services Consultation Experience: Over the past 15 years I have utilized my education and business experience to help customers with their change management, strategic analysis, and training analytics.

International Experience: My career has given me the opportunity to conduct training delivery and management in multiple countries, including China, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, Spain, UK, Holland, Australia, Canada, and United States. Additional personal travel includes: France, Germany, Belgium, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland, and French Polynesia.

Bachelors – Washington State University, Masters – Long Beach State University

 

Selected Achievements and Skills

 

q      Built training organization from scratch. Proposed the structure, deliverables, and resources for newly required global training organization. I recruited and hired a staff of course developers and instructors to assist in the development of a profitable training organization for two technical products at Oblix, Inc. (1999-2001). Additionally, our team established delivery capabilities on three continents.

q      Project managed multi-million dollar events. Owned the design, development and delivery of large-scale Sales and Technical Sales Conferences for thousand plus partner and employee resources. Hired staff, managed creative, content development, logistics, and executive management.

q       Led learning organization to record profitability with Gross Margin percentage of ~40%. Recruited to serve as Director of Education Services for Docent, Inc. (2002-2004). I increased training revenues by 15% quarter over quarter through expanded marketing strategies and improved customer satisfaction approaches. From quarter prior to arrival to current quarter revenues increased 53%.

q       Designed new company product in business development capacity. Designed and deployed new Learning Management System ASP product for customers requiring fast, targeted, and simple execution. From inception to first live customer was 90 days. Generated first $100K for company within first quarter.

q       Managed International Developers Conference Curriculum. To build a stronger user community, I designed a conference itinerary of 33 beginning, intermediate, and advanced technical and business training sessions for PayPal and eBay 3rd Party Developers. Session delivery included involvement from senior executives to community members to program staff.

q       Increased customer satisfaction rating to from 7.0 to 9.2 out of 10 for customers and partners taking instructor led and online training modules. I established new instructor led training templates for course development and new online templates for elearning offerings.

q       Merged Education Services teams from Docent and Click2Learn. I participated in facilitated efforts to abstract information from key leaders, managers, and individual contributors. We identified current processes and determined best practices for “new company”.

 

Professional Experience

 

q       Xilinx, Inc. – Learning and Development Program Manager 2006 – 2009

q       eBay, Inc. – Sr. Manager, Developer Education & Product Marketing 2004 – 2006

q       Docent, Inc. – Director of Education Services 2002 – 2004

q       Oblix, Inc. – Manager of Education 1999 – 2001

q       Deloitte Consulting – Senior Consultant, Education Services 1997 – 1999

q       Andersen Consulting – Change Management Consultant 1995 – 1996

q       Independent Contractor – Fortune 500 companies: Western Digital, General Electric 1992 – 1995