Jay Levine BS '76 is a Partner in Ernst & Young's National Tax office, and is the Americas Markets Leader of Business Tax Compliance. He is responsible for working with companies to improve their tax operations through process improvement, technology and strategic outsourcing, and he delivers innovative solutions to clients by gaining an in-depth understanding of their business and the unique nature of their organization. 
 
Mr. Levine has over 33 years of experience as a CPA and tax professional, including more than 26 years as a tax technology and process professional. He has designed and developed many software products and led in the integration of technology into the delivery of tax services. He has authored numerous articles for both tax and technology publications and is a frequent speaker on outsourcing, process improvement and tax related technology subjects. 
 
Mr. Levine thinks RIT's co-op experience gave him a leg up in his early career. I had several co-op jobs including Medicaid auditor, bookkeeper, and running my own company. In each of these, I was exposed to real business experiences that I was able to utilize as a foundation for projects/clients that I was assigned. That, combined with the opportunity to take elective technology courses put him far ahead of his peers in the early 1980s when technology exploded in business. I was the first person in the US to have a position of National Director of Tax Technology. It became the steppingstone for the rest of my career.