HRExaminer Radio – Executive Conversations: Episode #327: Jack Berkowitz, SVP Product Development for DataCloud, ADP
Description
HRx Radio – Executive Conversations: On Friday mornings, John Sumser interviews key executives from around the industry. The conversation covers what makes the executive tick and what makes their company great.
HRx Radio – Executive Conversations
Guest: Jack Berkowitz, SVP Product Development for DataCloud, ADP
Episode: 327
Air Date: May 31, 2019
Guest Bio
Jack Berkowitz, SVP Product Development for DataCloud, at ADP. Jack joined ADP in August 2018 as the Senior Vice President of Product Development for DataCloud. As the leader for the ADP DataCloud team Jack is responsible for ADP’s vision and approach to AI. With data across ADP’s population of nearly 30 million employee records in the US ADP has a unique position in the market to deliver unmatched insights to clients. Jack came to ADP from Oracle, where he was Vice President, Products and Data Science for Oracle’s Adaptive Intelligence program. In this role, he oversaw the market, technical and sales strategy for Oracle’s suite of next generation intelligent applications, combining web-data, data science and platform Cloud computing.
Prior to Oracle, Jack spent 20 years in both product development and implementation of intelligent information systems, most recently involved in Web-scale search and recommendation systems, data driven applications, and the Semantic Web. He has been on the executive team of 4 startups involved in search, reasoning or meta-data driven applications (Attivio, Siderean, Cerebra, and Reef Software) and he co-founded edapta, which enabled dynamic user interfaces and personalization for mobile and web clients. Berkowitz has delivered solutions with a wide-range of Global 50 clients from Financial Services, Consumer Web, and Healthcare. Early in his career, he was involved with DARPA and FAA sponsored programs for user-experience and intelligent systems, FAA Aviation Security, and the certification of the B777 flight deck.
Jack has a master’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Virginia Tech, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the College of William and Mary.
Transcript
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00:00:13 :26 – 00:00:26 :19
Good morning and welcome to HR Examiner’s Executive Conversations. Today we’re going to be talking with Jack Berkowitz who is new to ADP and you’re going to love this guy. Jack how are you?
00:00:27 :24 – 00:00:29 :11
Doing great John. How are you today?
00:00:30 :00 – 00:00:47 :23
OK so. So you’re the senior vice president of product development for the Datacloud. That’s exactly a big company job title. Why don’t you take a moment and introduce yourself tell us how you got there and tell those were the gobbledygook go with title mean.
00:00:47 :23 – 00:01:20 :27
Yeah that’s great. So you know I came here after a bit of a career in software and also in consulting. Most recently I was I was at a different software company. I was at Oracle working on some some interesting problems about introducing machine learning into business applications. But I came to ADP because of really two big things. First of all just the great reputation ADP has in really driving the economy. Now I was paid by through ADP for years and so were my parents and so far all my relatives.
00:01:21 :07 – 00:01:55 :11
You know it just was an attractive company to me from that perspective and the other thing was because of that the data that that ADP is able to. Show and deal and process was really really interesting to me as a technologist and we issue a thing called the National Employment Report every month who tells us. You know what’s happening with the economy and that’s all built on that data. So it’s really really interesting to me. What I do here is really three things. I run a really big H.R. analytics and reporting commercial product and we sell that or our customer subscribe to that.
00:01:55 :12 – 00:02:25 :24
Use it to interpret their people analytics in their people’s situation every day. I also work on on proving our overall product by work on building things like candidate relevancy scoring or chat bots or things like that that’s embedded inside of all of our H.R. and payroll applications to make the systems easier for people to use. That’s really what we’re doing. And the last thing is as I get to spend some time meeting customers which is actually the most important thing to me meeting the customers and meeting the people that work every day.
00:02:25 :28 – 00:02:42 :23
That’s what I spend a lot of time doing and that’s actually the most important part of my job. This is going to sound l
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