Jay has over a decade of experience in both the public and private sector managing both people and projects. He is described as a facilitator who seizes the moment to accomplish his objectives and achieve victory. Through his professional and life experience Jay has honed his skills as a campaign strategist and political operative.
Currently, Jay serves as Regional Vice President for the Saint Consulting Group with management responsibility for 33 states, four divisional offices and dozens of clients across multiple industries. Previous to this role, Jay served as Regional Division Manager of Midwest operations and a project manager with the company.
Prior to his work at Saint Consulting, Jay was a Regional Field and Political Director at a progressive non-profit that fought to change the business practices of the world's largest retail chain. In this capacity, Jay ran field organizing and political operations in 5 Upper Midwest States. Along with that experience Jay managed the online and offline independent expenditure program’s field organizing efforts at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2004 campaign cycle.
Additionally, training programs and activist programs were designed, developed and implemented by Jay at the DCCC. During a three year period at the committee Jay worked as Deputy to the Executive Director, Training Director and Special Assistant to the Chairman. Jay also served on a change committee that began the complete redesign of the committee’s internal information architecture and its external web presence.
Before his professional work in campaigns and politics Jay also worked in government for several years as a staffer in both the United States Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. There Jay worked as a legislative aide, a legislative correspondent and staff assistant. Here he learned how to navigate the both the halls of government and the bureaucracy.
Outside of Jay’s professional roles, he has taken numerous leadership roles within ideological and professional organizations. Currently Jay is an active member of the Urban Land Institute with membership on the Commercial Real Estate Council – Gold. There he serves on the leadership team as chief fundraiser. Additionally, he presided over the significant growth and operations of Washington, D.C.’s premiere professional development and networking group, the Democratic Networking Group (DNG).
He is a lifetime member and alumni of the American Council of Young Political Leaders. Through this affiliation Jay served as delegate to Taiwan and as lead facilitator and representative of a USAID funded program in Moldova for a 14 – Nation Eastern European Young Political Leaders Conference.
Jay is a graduate of Marquette University and the Les Aspin Center for Government Studies. He is also a candidate for a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.
Jay is married to Kelly and lives in Chicago with her and their dog – Maggie.
