Testimonials
Some people I’ve collaborated with over the years.
Jason is not only a visionary UX and design leader, he’s also a strong platform architect, client/user advocate and overall business leader. During our time together at Schoolwires/Blackboard, Jason’s design acumen lead to the development of several product innovations that propelled our product to leadership status. His understanding of platform architecture drove our products to be more integration-capable and accessible. These breakthroughs allow us to maintain our price point while providing clearly differentiated value. Also, his ability to translate client workflow and process into transformative features and functions have allowed us to leapfrog competitors. I don’t know of too many (any?) other highly-skilled design leaders who combine these traits.
Marc Rubner
Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, K12 Community Engagement Solutions
Blackboard
Design. Leader. Jason is passionate about product design, user experience, and people. He is a senior leader who creates high-performing teams. He is incredibly talented — from collaborating on product vision and market fit — to designing products, user experience, and interactions — to engaging users to validate prototypes or test new designs — to leading teams with members of various seniority and talents to do the same with excellence — he will get the job done. Jason’s combination of empathy for the user, creative approach to innovation and technical depth is unmatched. I would highly recommend him!
Dan Seeley
Sr. Product Manager
Blackboard
There are so many words I could use to describe Jason — innovative, passionate, creative, ambitious — the list goes on and on. I have had the privilege of working for Jason for six years and counting. He is a natural leader and has this wonderful way of bringing out the best in everyone on the team. His passion and enthusiasm are contagious — creating a work environment that is highly collaborative, innovative, and fun. He is truly an asset to our company and I am proud to call him both my mentor, and my friend.
Sara Hardy
UX/UI Architect
Blackboard
I’ve worked with Jason in some capacity since 2004. From 2008–2010, I reported directly to Jay. His enthusiasm and quest for cutting edge technology extended to Technical Communication and was contagious.
Jay is a visionary whose mind never seems to stop churning out new and better ideas. His technical skills make it easy for him to quickly assess the feasibility of an idea and estimate the amount of effort required to bring that idea to fruition.
Jason is able to make highly technical material understandable to non-technical people. That makes him an excellent Subject Matter Expert for the Tech Comm Team. In addition, this ability, coupled with his enthusiasm and energy have made him invaluable on sales calls and at trade shows.
He is a terrific mentor and coach, always turning the limelight on the people who worked for him. I cannot say enough about Jay. It was an honor to work for him. He is without a doubt an exceptional asset to our company.
Kathe Craig
Sr. Manager, Self-service and Technical Communications
Blackboard
If I were captain of a metaphorical kickball team, Jason would be my first pick in the team draft! Jason is absolutely, hands-down, the most innovative visionary I have ever worked with over my long career.
Over the last decade, I have had the pleasure of implementing and supporting the amazing, cutting-edge and creative solutions that Jason has designed and developed. Jason has the insight, vision and technical skills to translate client needs and requirements into a flawless user experience as well as the ability to see where true innovation is possible.
Jason also displays the rare and unique ability to discuss complex and technical topics at the level of his audience — deepest to most simplistic. He is completely client-focused with an incredible empathy for clients that can be translated into amazing technical solutions. As VP of Client Services at Schoolwires, I often asked Jason to be part of sensitive client calls because of his gifts in this area.
In summary, Jason is the quintessential renaissance man; empathetic, articulate, artistic, innovative and technically proficient, as well as a true visionary!
Patti DiSanto
VP, Client Services
Schoolwires
Jason is awesome at keeping up with the web industry and applying it to his work and team. His team benefits from his innovative, yet practical usability and technical expertise. Schoolwires web products are and become great experiences because of him — resulting in high user adoption, happy customers and growing business. The team at Schoolwires is fortunate to have Jason leading their product design.
Danelle Bailey
Senior UX/UI Designer
Blackboard
Working with Jason Coudriet is like working with innovation in motion. His vision of the future of the company and our products is nothing short of breathtaking. His vast background in design, UX, and development are the foundation and future of the genius that is our product line. He manages to keep a perfect balance between client needs and business needs, while constantly staying ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest and greatest in features and market trends. I have had the opportunity to observe Jason while working in another department for the past 4 years. His passion for creating and designing is nothing short of inspiring. In fact, it is so inspiring, that I recently joined his team. In addition to being a visionary when it comes to development, UX and design, he is also an outstanding employer. I actually look forward to coming to work each day. Our work climate is positive and encouraging, and ideas and contributions are both encouraged, and respected. The culture Jason promotes in our workplace makes an already amazing job, perfect. It is truly a joy to be a part of Jason’s Design and Innovation team.
Jen Aldrich
UX Editor and Researcher
Blackboard
