Jay Levitt
Vice President IT And CISO at Pursuit
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJay Levitt is a seasoned IT executive and CISO with 17+ years of experience leading technology, security and operations for mid-market and enterprise organizations. Currently shaping IT strategy and regulatory compliance at Pursuit, he has a track record of transforming operations—driving cloud and hybrid infrastructure, ERP modernizations, M&A integrations, and disaster recovery programs that improved availability and reduced costs. He blends hands-on technical leadership (including managing multi-million dollar budgets and global teams) with pragmatic change management to align people, processes and technology to business goals. A former General Manager and Senior Director of IT, Jay has led large consolidation and vendor strategy efforts that delivered multi-million dollar savings and service-level improvements. He holds a CS bachelor’s and an MBA, and is comfortable navigating both C-suite strategy and detailed security/regulatory requirements such as NY DFS and PCI compliance.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Temple UniversityDe Witt ClintonBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (33)
ruby9
linux9
homebrew9
macos9
package-manager8
tag-list8
jquery-plugin7
activerecord6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
pagination6
complex-event-processing6
mvp6
jquery6
psql5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jaylevitt/dotfiles
May 2010 - Aug 2012
Contributions:78 commits in 2 years 2 months
jaylevitt/miditime
Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 2 months
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