Jordan Dea-Mattson
• United States: San Francisco Bay Area
• computer software
Current:
Director, Quality & Process Engineering, IMPAC Medical Systems, An Elekta Company
Director, Quality and Process Engineering, IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. an Elekta Company
Past: Senior Engi San Francisco Bay Area
Jordan Dea-Mattson
Address: San Francisco Bay Area
Current:
- Director, Quality & Process Engineering at IMPAC Medical Systems, An Elekta Company
- Director, Quality and Process Engineering at IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. an Elekta Company
Past:
- Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering Quality Services at Adobe Systems
- Engineering Manager, Developer Technologies at Adobe Systems
Education:
- University of California, Santa Cruz
People Network: 500+
Industry: Computer Software
Jordan Dea-Mattson’s Summary
+ Highly effective in building, growing (in effectiveness and numbers), and managing high performing teams both locally and overseas.
+ Highly effective in leading and maximizing the contribution of distributed development and services teams.
+ Highly effective at developing individual employees, helping them to grow and become more effective in their work. Highly effective at retaining staff (all turnover essentially due to RIFFs) by continually making their positions a place where they can grow and develop.
+ Highly effective in gathering, analyzing, identifying, and acting upon customer needs and requirements.
+ Highly effective in developing solutions to problems (known or unknown by customers), getting support for them, and making them a reality.
+ Strong understanding of both technology and business. Able to see the opportunities presented by technologies and how they apply to current company and other businesses. Able to quickly come up-to-speed on a technology, understanding its implications and limitations.
+ Strong skills in partner management. Highly effective at building and maintaining relationships with external partners. Owned the Apple and Microsoft technical relationships and kept them effective in very challenging times.
+ Strong customer empathy. Strong passion to do the right thing for customers, both internal and external. Strong connection to and understanding of developers.
+ High integrity. Strive to do the right thing, balancing needs of staff, management, and customers.
Jordan Dea-Mattson’s Specialties:
Recruiting, developing, and retaining high performance teams; Technology Product Management; Change Management; Vision Setting, Planning, and Execution; Development Team Management; Strategic Planning; Intrapeneuring; Pre-Release (Beta)Management; Quality Engineering
Director, Quality & Process Engineering
IMPAC Medical Systems, An Elekta Company
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, responsible for managing Quality and Process Engineering organization for all software products at IMPAC Medical Systems.
IMPAC Medical Systems develops, markets, and supports an open Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and other software used in oncology treatment. IMPAC has a full suite of software products which covers all phases of oncological medicine.
Eductional Details:
University of California, Santa Cruz
BA, Computer and Information Sciences, Concentrations in Asian Studies and Economics, 1981 — 1986
Jordan Dea-Mattson’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
Additional Information
Jordan Dea-Mattson’s Interests:
History, leadership & management, technology, science, and politics. Organizational development, innovation, cultural studies (anthropology and sociology). Reading: Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, Joel Spolsky, Ward Cunningham, Kent Beck, The Pragmatic Programmers, Clayton Christensen, Eric Von Hippel. Stock analysis, micro finance and venture funding. Pursuing my CFA. Currently preparing for the Level 1 Exam. Enjoy skiing, SCUBA, running, biking, hiking, coaching and teaching (any subject, any setting)
Jordan Dea-Mattson’s Groups:
+ Member of MacTech Board of Advisors
+ Member of Kyron Holdings LLC Board of Advisors
+ Member of The Motley Fool Hidden Gems community team
- Adobe Alumni member
- Ppt-Collaboration: People, Process & Technology member
- Apple Professional member
- CFA Group member
- AdobeAlumni member
- Software Testing & Quality Assurance member
- Apple Alumni member
- Apple - Current and Former Employees member
Jordan Dea-Mattson’s Honors:
+ The "Jordan" of MacHack "Its all Jordan's fault!" fame.