About the Author

Jason Williamson is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. His interests include project management, cloud computing, data integration, and analysis. He also served his country in the United States Marine Corps. He holds an MS in Management of IT from the University of Virginia and a BS in Information Systems from Virginia Commonwealth University. His favorite job is husband to his wife and father to four children.

Jason has worked with the world’s leading Fortune 1000 firms, including Oracle, General Electric, and Capital One. In addition to working in the corporate world, Jason was the founder and CTO for the construction industry’s first SaaS/CRM offering. He led BuildLinks from a concept to a multi-million-dollar company and forged key financial and business partnerships with Sprint/Nextel and Intuit, helping to create innovative products. His creative thinking and vision opened the door for him to establish a nonprofit NGO dedicated to entrepreneurial and technology education in developing nations, which enabled the establishment of multiple self-sustaining companies in Latin America.

Dedication

I want to dedicate this work to my loving wife, Susan. She is truly a modern Proverbs 31 woman. Her leadership, faithfulness, hard work, and love are examples for me and all who know her.

Author’s Acknowledgments

Thanks to all the amazing people at Wiley who worked with me to get this done — Andy Cummings, Amy Fandrei, ...

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