Jerrel offers deep analytical skills and systems understanding, as well as broad cross-industry experience as an engineer, financial manager, strategic consultant and entrepreneur in the technology, real estate, retail and business-to-business market sectors. He applies his experience in economic development, business strategy and organizational change to projects at CFAR that help clients improve their competitive positioning in a fluid marketplace.  He draws particularly on his professional background and academic training as an engineer, using analysis and synthesis to help clients develop clear, competitive, data-based strategy.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Market and Industry Assessment - Identifies opportunities and trends among customers and organizations competing for their business

• Economic Analysis - Applies economic concepts to analyzing markets and their evolution

• Analytic Insight - Can synthesize diverse sources of information into a coherent story

Recent Projects

• For a large foundation: worked with different levels of the organization’s senior management to strengthen their communication skills, help them think more strategically and relate the impact their work to the organization’s broad goals.

  For a leading national non-profit: worked with program leaders developing methods for gathering, ways to interpret, and best use of data to inform program effectiveness.

Professional Facts

Master of Business Administration, Finance, Account and Organizational Behavior, University of Chicago

Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Concentrations in Strength of Materials and Computational Analysis, Tufts University

Information Systems Consultant, RISA Charitable Trust (Reinvest South Africa)

Has written on issues concerning organization change and leadership development

Selected Writing

 

“A 2D Finite Element Model Estimation of Rail Residual Stress Due to Heat Treatment,” ASM International 2000.

“A Numerical Model for Estimation of Temperature-Time History & Residual Stress in Head-Hardened”, MWSP 1997

 “Tailoring Heat Treatment and Composition for Production of On-Line Head-Hardened Bainitic Rail”, MWSP 1997 

“Evaluation of Service-Induced Residual Stresses in Railroad Commuter Car Wheels”, ASME International 1998