About Jeff

Seasoned, Technical, Approachable

Seasoned

Having a lot of experience of doing something and therefore knowing how to do it well – Cambridge Dictionary

Jeff has successfully completed projects and lead teams at more than 35 companies, multiple vertical markets (from healthcare to fintech to supply chain), and companies of all sizes from less than 50 to the largest companies in the world (Intel, Monsanto, Microsoft). Just imagine what he can do for you!

Technical

As a math major at ASU, Jeff took as many computer programming elective courses as he could, learning 12 different languages. During his college career he moved from punch cards, to printing terminals, and ultimately to CRTs the size of a doghouse.

Jeff owned one of the first Apple IIs, IBM PCs, IBM clones, B&W Pong console, Breakout, and the original Nintendo, Coleco, PlayStation, and Xbox game consoles. He has also followed the Apple revolution as well, with iPods, iPads, iMacs, and iPhones.

Jeff is truly a child of the computer age. The year he took chemistry in high school, he started with a slide rule. After his parents bought 3 calculators for him that school year, the slide rule was relegated to the dust heap of history.

Jeff has grown and adapted with every technology advancement. Although he dreams in 1s and 0s, he spends most of his time thinking how to make technology work simply for everybody.

Approachable

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein

Jeff understands that technology can be daunting to most people. The vast majority of employees in any given company do not reside in the IT department; but almost all the software built, or implemented, is for this group. They need an advocate like Jeff who can bridge the gap between technology and users, in order to achieve what has always been promised – technology making lives easier.

Jeff knows how to collaborate with business users and get to the core of what they need to make technology work for them. Often users are exhausted from having very little luck communicating to their own IT departments or the implementors from vendors whose products they have purchased. In the end they wind up with something where the technical teams turn over something unusable swearing it is exactly what the business asked for.

Whether managing an IT department or managing a large project, Jeff can reverse this trend for your organization.

Tempe Through and Through

At Home Near ASU

After attending Grade School and High School in North Phoenix, Jeff attended Arizona State University. After 3 years in Central California and 1 more in St. Louis, Jeff and his wife returned to make their home a few miles from ASU in Tempe, Arizona.

It's Not All Technology

Recreation

QUESTION: How can you tell the difference between a Tennis Court and a Pickleball Court?

ANSWER: A Pickleball Court has people on it.

The Pickleball craze has hit the Jeff Martin household too. Jeff is waiting for the summer to annoy his neighbors by replacing the backyard basketball court with a pickleball court.

Jeff and his wife also enjoy kayaking at the Tempe Town Lake and adventures with their two Golden Retrievers – Cody and Barkley.

Long Suffering Sports Fan

So, we’re down 0-2, and I suppose the next question is: “Are the Suns dead?’ No. We’re going to win this series. We’ll win Tuesday night, and then we play again Thursday. We’ll win that one and then come back here and win, and everyone will say what a great series it was. – Paul Westphal after the 1st seed Suns fall 0-2 to the 8th seed Lakers in the 1992-93 NBA playoffs

It takes a special kind of fan to rise to the heights of hype and go into each new season with the same amount of hope as last year. Then comes the eventual crushing defeat and swearing off never watching again. How can you keep finding silver linings when there are hardly any clouds?

Welcome to Arizona.