Jordan Alsop
Partner & Director of Operations
New Market, MD
Jordan runs the operational side of Slide UX. He is the reason your project has the right people on it, a schedule that holds, and numbers you can check.
On your project
Jordan builds the systems and relationships that let good teams do their best work: staffing, delivery planning, capacity, and the reporting that tells you where an engagement actually stands.
He came to design from mathematics, and it shows in how he works. He is comfortable in a spreadsheet full of raw data and good at turning its contents into something a client can see and act on.
Jordan joined Slide UX in 2019 as an Operations Analyst, became Operations Manager in 2021, and joined the partnership in 2022.
Why this work is personal
Jordan's grandmother, known in the family as Grandma Beads, was born in 1919, and lived to 98. After his grandfather died in 1997, she stayed on their 86-acre farm for nearly a decade, fiercely proud of her independence.
Around 2011 the family started noticing mental slips. Forgotten medications. Appliances left on. The diagnosis was dementia. Jordan was in his early 20s and had no idea what that word would come to mean.
She moved into assisted living, then into the Alzheimer's unit of a nursing home as her needs grew. Jordan watched a sharp woman lose her ability to do everyday things while she could still recall events from 50 years earlier. Even though he visited often, Jordan vividly remembers the first time she didn't know who he was, and watching his dad and his siblings face that same moment a few months later. Grandma Beads passed away in 2017.
That experience is why Jordan cares about designing for dignity, and it informs how he thinks about the people on the other end of the products Slide UX builds.
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Before Slide UX
Jordan spent seven years as a secondary mathematics teacher in the Pennsylvania public school system, teaching everything from pre-algebra through pre-calculus at Penn Cambria School District and Homer-Center Junior/Senior High School.
He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Mathematics Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Outside of work
Jordan is a private pilot and a new dad. When he isn't flying, he is usually outdoors with his wife and son, or checking out a local brewery.
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