Personal:

Jay Brummett has been a resident of District 35 for 20 years.  He is a husband of 18 years to wife Frances and father of three girls: Lisa, Elise, and Melissa. 

His children are the product of a combination of Utah’s Public Schools and involved parents.  Lisa, age 16, is enrolled as a full-time student at Weber State University pursuing pre-med; Elise is attending Granite High School where she is currently acting as the president of the freshman class.  Melissa is currently enrolled in JE Moss Elementary pursuing her passions of ballet and art.

Community:

Mr. Brummett has served the community in a number of leadership roles including: President of Moss PTA, Chairman of the Millcreek Community Council, Salt Lake County Board of Adjustment, the East County Recreation Advisory Board, Native American prison ministry, and in leading mentoring programs for small business leaders.

Community service has been, and continues to be a key component of his life beginning with youth involvement in the Boy Scouts where he earned his Eagle Award; and the YMCA, where he was awarded YMCA’s Outstanding Boy of the Year in 1976.  As an adult he has been involved with community youth in the public schools serving on various PTA and school advisory boards, as a Boy Scout and Girl Scout leader, and mentoring programs for Native American youth.

Professional:

Jay Brummett manages the Information Technology Division for the Ogden City, where he inherited an ineffective and bureaucratic organization with a negative balance sheet of nearly $2 million.  Under Mr. Brummett’s management, these financial problems have been resolved, and service levels have doubled while costs have plummeted by over 17%.  Ogden City has become a recognized leader in e-government; recently the City was named the #1 Digital City by the National League of Cities and Center for Digital Government, awarded the 3CMA Savvy award for Best Technology and Internet Services, and was awarded Best Practices in Storage for Innovation and Promise (Honorable Mention) by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

Prior to joining Ogden City, Mr. Brummett held key corporate and engineering management positions in several industry-leading public companies as well as the senior partner responsible for portfolio technical and “business turn around” management with a prominent inter-mountain venture capital firm. 

Mr. Brummett is a frequent speaker and panelist at leading IT conferences, tradeshows, workshops, universities and colleges as well as, author of several books, whitepapers, and articles covering a wide range of data communications and telecommunications networking topics.  Recent speeches include: Storage Networking World –Fall 2005, 2005 Versadex Conference, International Wireless Expo05, and 2005 Mobile & Wireless World.  Recent press coverage includes: February 2005, Government Technology, CIO Profile; May 30, 2005 Federal Computer Week: Storage virtualization gets downsized. 

He currently holds the United States’ advisory seat on the European Commission’s e-Government project: EU-SAFIR-FP6 whose primary objective is to give each citizen an equal opportunity to access, update and manage existing authorized content and allow civil servants to gather, update and manage information in the field.