A systems builder with an Industrial-Organizational psychology foundation, bringing leaders and teams together to build great things.
As a former EY management consultant trained in Industrial-Organizational psychology, I sit at the multi-functional crossroad of product and people. I build frameworks and models for strategy, but I'm still here when it comes time for implementation and execution. I work with teams to make long-lasting impact that sticks.
At Comcast, I led a team that consolidated three siloed groups into one center of excellence that handles over half a million service inquiries annually. Through aligned standards, processes and tools, we improved their on-time SLA from 43% at 48 hours to 92% within 2 hours.
I've also stood up an entire organization from scratch — designing the full employee lifecycle for a 329-person team that plans and executes the network upgrades reaching six million customers a year. From hiring and onboarding through training, performance, and the operating model that holds it together, I built how the team works so the change could scale and last.
Eight years at Comcast building the tools, automation, and organizations that make a 28M-customer business run — framed the way a consultant would.
Three divisions (Northeast, Central, West) handled service-availability inquiries in isolation — different processes, different tools, no shared definitions. Roughly 550K inquiries a year, and only 43% met a 48-hour SLA.
National scale across separate P&L groups, entrenched local ways of working, a legacy ticketing system, address-matching errors driving rework, and no single owner for the end-to-end journey.
Consolidated into one national COE with shared playbooks and journey maps, an evolved ticketing system, and better address matching — moving on-time SLA from 43% at 48 hours to 92% within 2 hours, and lifting revenue 17%.
Compressing the SLA window from 48 hours to 2 didn't trade off attainment — it more than doubled it. Standardization made faster and better the same thing.
A major network transformation needed an execution organization that didn't exist — a team to plan and run upgrades reaching 6M customers a year.
A net-new build with no existing lifecycle, roles, or training. The org had to be hired, onboarded, trained, and evaluated at speed — while the transformation it served was already in motion.
Stood up and scaled a 329-person organization with a full employee lifecycle — sourcing, onboarding, training, and performance scoring — operational and delivering against the transformation timeline.
Construction completion dates were unreliable — hurting forecasting, planning, and the customer experience. Teams needed a dependable signal for when work would actually finish.
Building useful features from operational data; getting field teams to trust and adopt a model's recommendations; and tying predictions into an existing Salesforce-based workflow without disrupting how people already worked.
Shipped an "Estimated Construction Completion Date" random-forest model improving accuracy 18% over baseline — served live into the Salesforce workflow as recommendations field teams could act on.
Node mismatches between the billing and telemetry systems that should have agreed led to correlation challenges, unnecessary truck rolls and forced teams into manual reconciliation and research of mismatches.
Reconciling records across systems that never shared a clean key; designing automation resilient to messy, real-world inputs; and fixing the root cause rather than the symptom so the backlog wouldn't simply return.
Built workflow automation and data-quality checks that cut node mismatches from 520K to 45K — a ~91% reduction — retiring manual reconciliation and giving downstream teams data they could trust.
Owned multi-year roadmaps for service availability, identity, and Flex (Xumo) — driving MFA adoption across 47M identities under government compliance.
Aligned BI reporting across teams and divisions — shared definitions, consolidated dashboards, and feedback loops that gave executives a single source of truth.
Consolidated three orgs and in-sourced production from external vendors, saving $2M a year and building a skills scorecard for 260+ employees.
An internal decision-support tool that surfaces which factors most affect job outcomes — turning operational signal into guidance field teams can act on.
Design and systems work outside the day job — proof that I don't just direct the build, I do it.
A bilingual (IT/EN) marketing site I designed and built for a Prato-based women's ready-to-wear atelier: editorial heritage storytelling, a process walkthrough, a showroom gallery, and an appointment-request flow — all on a warm, restrained luxury system.
A building delivery & lookup guide for my own residential building — the practical, hard-to-find details residents and couriers actually need to get a package to the right place.
The point isn't the scope, it's the approach: solving an everyday problem without the $15k overhead — building and shipping it in days instead of months.
Systems are only ever in service of people. This is where that conviction shows up most directly.
I volunteer with Crisis Text Line, supporting people through their hardest moments one conversation at a time. It's the most direct version of the listening, empathy, and grace-under-pressure that the rest of my work only gestures at — and a constant reminder of who the systems are for.
I volunteer with Good Karma Bikes, a San Jose nonprofit that turns donated bikes into affordable transportation and hands-on job training for youth and neighbors working toward something better. Tangible, mechanical, and local — a different register from the rest of my work, and one of the most grounding.
Built in the same spirit: a small journaling app that pairs reflection with light analytics — a streak, a weekly count, a mood mix. The same instinct behind the engagement and pulse surveys I've run for thousands of employees, shrunk to a tool of one.
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I partner with leaders to turn big, messy change into systems that last — strategy through execution, diagnosed like a scientist and built like an engineer. If that's the work in front of you, let's talk.
jonathancshan@gmail.com