Jason Edwards

Jason Edwards is a Certified IBM Cognos Planning expert and founding partner at Agile Strategic Business Consulting, a consulting company that specializes in IBM Cognos Planning and Business Intelligence implementations.

Jason has ten years experience in application design and development using corporate performance planning software in a broad range of industries such as telecommunications, retail, pharmaceutical and entertainment. He specializes in all phases of the development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, development and deployment. With efficiency and resourcefulness, Jason has effectively lead and managed highly successful IBM Cognos Planning implementations to clients in Europe and the United States.

Jason holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance. He started his career modeling complex financial systems in spreadsheets. It was while working as an international business analyst for a global interactive games publisher a decade ago that he acquired his experience of the dynamic and powerful corporate performance planning software Adaytum (IBM Cognos Planning). From then on, Jason's passion for modeling sophisticated forecasting systems led him into a career of consultancy devoted to helping clients utilize the power of IBM Cognos Planning to achieve their organizational goals.

Jason believes that his dual expertise and experience in finance and information technology and his ability in building strong client relationships has helped him develop highly successful user accepted software solutions using IBM Cognos Planning.

Jason lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia. He enjoys recreational sports like cycling, soccer and tennis and takes pleasure in exploring the great restaurants and parks of Philadelphia with his family and friends.

Jason is continually looking for new opportunities and challenges and can be contacted at jason.edwards@agilestrategic.com and on the Web at www.agilestrategic.com.