Ken Jones
President And Transformation Specialist
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Jones is a transformation-focused executive and educator with over two decades of cross-industry experience helping organizations—from Rolls-Royce and Roche to regional manufacturers and public agencies—streamline operations, supply chains, and leadership. As President of Value Chain Solutions he has served as executive-in-residence, VP-level advisor, and hands-on consultant to more than 100 organizations, applying Lean, Six Sigma, and supply chain best practices to drive measurable performance gains. He also bridges academia and industry as an experienced instructor at Kelley, Indiana State, Ivy Tech and Western Michigan University, where he led applied student projects that solved real business challenges. His education work has produced notable outcomes—average student GPA improvements of roughly 32% and study-time reductions near 40%—underscoring a talent for making learning more efficient and less stressful. Based in Kalamazoo, Ken combines financial and supply-chain expertise with a servant-leader coaching style, and even contributes practical technical work to projects like real-time mobile location tooling. He is known for reinventing roles to follow his twin passions of teaching and enterprise transformation, continually turning complex problems into scalable, people-centered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Business Administration - Finance, B.S., Business Administration - Finance at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
Github Skills (11)
permission10
location-services10
ios10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter-plugin10
android10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
swift9
objective-c9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Lyokone/flutterlocation
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
A Flutter plugin to easily handle realtime location in iOS and Android. Provides settings for optimizing performance or battery.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Ken's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Flutter plugin's functionality for both Android and iOS platforms. They implemented a request permissions result listener for Android, ensuring proper handling of permission requests. Additionally, the user merged updates, including modifications to the iOS side, which involved changes to permission handling and location service settings. Their work directly supports the plugin's core function: managing real-time location data.
realtimebatterydartrealtime-locationandroid
indiana-university/itpeople-app
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
IT People frontend app.
Contributions:2 releases, 322 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year
reactfrontendreduxfrontend-appreactjs
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