April 10, 2024 | Jane's Journey
Personal Journey
I grew up in St. Louis with 4 siblings, one of which is a twin brother. After college, I wanted to see the Big Apple so moved to the NYC area (Princeton, New Jersey) where I met my husband and raised two boys. As adults, both of my sons settled down in Chicago. And then I picked up and moved to the Wrigleyville area and live 6 blocks from both of them and their families. Each son has three children, including one set of identical twins, all with whom I build memories – building dollhouses, baking their favorite party cake, gingerbread houses, plays, movies, books, Biking the Drive, Climbing the Hancock, garden worms and bubbles . . . . and trips to Disney World.
I’ve always had the interest and passion for IT / Math. In high school I was often the only girl in the math classes. I introduced the computer to my students and can remember staying up most of the night working on the first Apple Commodore 64 computer. I went on to take a “C” Programming class for fun! My love for IT was becoming a passion!
I made a very tough decision and made a career change from teaching to sales – first selling phone systems for Contel Executone, and then recruited by Cap Gemini when I was trying to sell them a phone system. That launched a very successful career in Business Development of large IT solutions for Cap Gemini. Again, I was one of the few females amongst my peers in IT/Telecommunications with Bellcore, Bell Labs, and AT&T as my clients. This will date me but with tongue in cheek, “I am responsible for HDTV.” You see . . . I was the Account Manager for the Bell Labs account, and I placed the Cap Gemini consultants on a project called “HDTV”. When I picked up my client for lunch one day, he gave me a tour of the facility – room after room of TVs . . . . Voila ~ we have HDTV today!!
Later in my career at Cap I was selected as part of Best Practices along with a small team to implement the $40 million international Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) effort to transform Cap Gemini into a transnational solutions-oriented company. I led the transformation of two $18 Million business units by achieving behavior change, facilitating business transformation, driving competitive analyses, and determining strategic marketing and sales directions. It forever changed me and provided me with a new set of tools in re-engineering, brown paper, and post-its.
After moving to Chicago, I had the opportunity to work for a short time with Cap Gemini alum who owned her own recruiting company. Then I went off on my own in 2008 and formed Corporate Strategic Resourcing specializing in IT recruitment. It’s been 16 years now and I am honored and delighted to provide exceptional IT talent for contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire positions for small, mid-size, Fortune 500 companies, and companies with household names. Most recently I have had the privilege to meet and play a role in the career change of a Director of BI – Informatics and Analytics, Director of Infrastructure, Director of Identity Management, Security Engineer, Director of Finance, Unified Communications Consultants, and so many other talented people. I believe in building strong, long-term relationships and in connecting people to build their careers or personal lives.
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