Meet the Educational Systemics Team
Michael Jay
President
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Michael has committed his career to ensuring that learners and education professionals have tools and services to support quality education. A long time educator, Michael taught Science in San Jose, California where he also worked in developing the first set of Technology in the Curriculum materials for the State of California. He left the classroom in 1986 to join Apple Computer's Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) research and development project, serve as Apple’s Education Competitive Analyst, and lead major curriculum related marketing initiatives. During his tenure at Apple, he remained a contributor to science education through many projects including being one of the authors of California's Science Framework of 1990.
Michael left Apple Computer to pursue the development of a technology of his design that dynamically indicates the relationship between curriculum, curriculum standards, and instructional resources for which he received patents in 1998. As founder of Mediaseek Technologies, Inc. he laid the groundwork for many of the innovations in standards implementation and instructional resource integration that followed. In the following years, he continued the development of tools for children and educators as Director of Education Business Development at N2H2 and VP and GM of Brainium Technologies in the following years where he worked on challenges associated with sustainable 1:1 computing in schools.
As founder of Educational Systemics Inc., Michael works with his associates to create lasting change in how we learn and educate through their work with corporations and educational institutions. Their clients have benefited through increased efficiency, improved understanding of the K-12 market, improved ability to identify and reach their core customers, and the development of innovative yet sustainable solutions. Their diverse expertise — representing educational and corporate leadership, market analysis, development, instructional design, and tested knowledge of all facets of K-12 education — is married with a vision that generates success for their clients while advancing their vision for education.
Michael remains active in the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) of which he was an Education Board member for eight years (co-chair for three) and continues to chair the Technology and Development Working Group. He has helped guide the development of the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) Association as he completes his sixth year on its executive board. Michael also has an appointment at Western Washington University as a Research Associate in Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education and is asked to speak in many different venues, including national education conferences, investment meetings, and meetings of school district faculty and staff.
