DAJCInc is my practice. When you hire DAJCInc, you hire me. Not a team I lead, not a senior name on a slide who hands off to junior staff at kickoff. The architect on the proposal is the architect on the project.
How I got here
I didn't come to this work through consulting. I came to it through the production floor.
My early career, in the 1980s and early 1990s, was in production planning and demand planning roles across raw materials and manufacturing — including Anheuser-Busch and Louisiana Pacific. I learned forecasting and scheduling the way you only really learn them when the schedule is yours and the line is waiting on it.
In 1996 I joined Imation as a Supply Analyst, then took on Demand Planning as well. That's where I first sat down in front of JDA 3.4 — the software I would end up building a career around. I knew the planner's chair before I ever sat in the consultant's, which is something I draw on every project I work.
From Imation I moved into consulting, then through Target Corporation as a Senior Software Engineer, Blue Yonder itself as a Pre-Sales Solution Consultant, an IT management role at Molin, and most recently as a Senior Solution Architect at one of the largest Blue Yonder implementation partners. In between those, I've gone independent under the DAJCInc name more than once.
This time, I'm staying independent.
Why DAJCInc, why now
After thirty years inside firms, I know how the work gets sold and how the work gets delivered, and I know they aren't always the same thing.
Most large Blue Yonder projects are sold by senior architects and delivered by junior staff. The result is configuration decisions made by people who've never run a planning cycle, never watched a U.S. distribution center on a Monday morning, never sat with a demand planner trying to explain why last quarter's forecast was wrong. The named senior shows up for the steering committee and the go-live. That's not how I work, and DAJCInc exists so I don't have to.
I'd rather just do the work, take on the engagements that suit it, and answer to the client. That's what DAJCInc is.
How I work
I take on full implementations, shorter advisory engagements, troubled-program rescues, and upgrade assessments. Most engagements are Blue Yonder Demand and Fulfillment or ESP, in manufacturing or retail. I work on-site or remote depending on the project, and I work directly with the client team — no handoffs.
If you're a Blue Yonder customer who's been burned by a big-firm project, or a smaller firm that needs senior architecture support without adding a partner-level salary, that's the work I'm built for.