Jason Albert is an adjunct professor in Business Systems and Analytics. He completed his Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Engineering co-sponsored by the Wharton School (2009).
Jason’s areas of expertise include: business transformation, enterprise architecture, and managing innovation. Jason has created new lines-of-business, applied design thinking, and provided interactive analysis and valuation for business opportunity and new product strategy. He also engages leadership from regulated industries, Federal Government, and Department of Defense as a trusted advisor. Throughout his career, Jason has coordinated technical service designs for new and existing products with their respective business processes, applications, databases, and platform architectures. He also provides guidance on initiatives ranging from enterprise resource planning (S/4HANA), business technology platform (BTP), and data analytics (SAC, HANA Cloud, Datasphere, BDC) for their continuous development, architectural governance, security risk and authorization, and knowledge management.
Jason has taught Business Systems for Analytics (BUS205) and previously IT for Decision Making (MBA820) at LaSalle University since 2013 (12 years). He lectured prior as an associate at the University of Pennsylvania in Data Mining and IT Strategy (3 years). Jason’s syllabus includes: business strategy, enterprise applications, decision models, database design, data mining methods and evaluation. He also leverages concepts from best practices such as CRISP/DM, TOGAF/ADM, ITIL, CI/CD, and PMBOK.
Jason is senior director of architecture for product strategy at SAP National Security Services (NS2). He has worked for SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, since 2005 (20 years). Jason is a certified enterprise architect, certified ERPsim instructor, and has career training with SAP applications, analytics, security frameworks, SDLC, and platform development. Previous to SAP, he worked in the microelectronics manufacturing industry for AT&T Microelectronics and its divestitures (Lucent, Agere), with a focus on networks, systems, and security since 1992 (12 years).