BS”D
Ian Joseph (Yosef Yitzchak) Jacobs
+972 55 263 5498 • WhatsApp +372 5950 9690 • [email protected] • Safed, ISRAEL
Summary of skills
- · Organized, resourceful, accommodating, friendly, good communicator, responsible
- · Visionary medium-long term strategic, critical, lateral and systems thinker
- · Intuitive problem solver and crisis manager
- · Willingness to be innovative, strategically and tactically disruptive if/when necessary
- · Willing to learn and adapt to new conditions, cultures and environments
- · Resilient personality – ability to thrive under pressure
- · Excellent communication skills, good understanding and grasp of team dynamics and work protocols
- · Halachically vigilant, known for my integrity, zealous watchfulness, meticulous detail orientation, dedication, insistence on ensuring compliance with the highest standards of Kashrut, work health and safety, ethics
Experience
1990-2020 Mashgiach Kashrut, based in Sydney, Australia - KA (Kashrut Authority) https://www.ka.org.au/about under HaRav HaMachshir Moshe D. Gutnick
- Supervised and worked in numerous commercial and private food production facilities and kitchens at various locations including: high stress commercial kitchens for wide range of event catering under all conditions; food manufacturing factories, retail shops, restaurants, bakeries, Kosher wine production, Chalav Yisrael milk supervision, Kosher chicken abattoir production supervision, Kosher fish preparations
- Directly responsible to Senior Mashgichim and HaRav HaMachshir
1995-2000 Manager, Judaica book and gift store, Sydney, Australia
- All aspects of administration, ordering, hiring and supervising staff, sales and marketing
2004-2015 Start-Up Co-Founder, Investor, Entrepreneur, CEO
- Managed all aspects of conception, design, establishment, funding, business planning, administration of US based international commercial legal entities: for profit (Wallcott Holdings LLC, MediTour Expo LLC) and non-profit (IHC LLC)
- Hiring and supervising essential professional staff, negotiating work contracts, recruiting, organizing and coordinating group of elite graduate and post graduate researchers
- Domain registration, managing website development, networking, stakeholder relations
- Organized three high level international conferences with attendance by senior ministry level government representatives, industry and academic thought leaders.
Education
2021-2022 Ness Daniel Kollel, Safed
2010 Certificate in Health Commercial Food Handling, Health and Safety
2002 Certificate in preparatory Mathematics, University of Sydney
1982 Year long adult education course in philosophical metaphysics, WEA Sydney
1983 Enrolled in BSc/Llb, dual degree program in honours mathematics, physics and law, Australian National University
1985 Adult education course in philosophy of mathematics, WEA Sydney
1986 Adult education course in mysticism of major world religions, WEA Sydney
1990 Extra Curricular Studies, Sydney Yeshiva Gedola
Languages
English – mother tongue; Hebrew - basic comprehension of religious texts
