Jerry McMurray or Jay is a 25-year-old who is about 6’2 in height. He identifies as a healthy, heterosexual, middle-class, single, and nonreligious Caucasian male. Jay grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina with both his parents and his younger brother. Although, Jay was born and raised in Charlotte both of this parents are from the north. His mother grew in rural central Pennsylvania, and his father from rural southwestern Wisconsin.
Growing up Jay attended public school and then went on to attending a four-year public university, Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Jay’s parents also attended four-year public universities. Mrs. McMurray majored in Criminal Justice at Penn State and professionally worked as a polygraph examiner …show more content…
Jay’s role consists of daily management of Safety data warehouse for both operational and financial programs. He writes T-SQL codes to extract data for safety and operational analysis; he develops and maintains safety metrics. Jay manages special projects that align safety groups to effectively process ways of organizing data and producing reports. He supervises two interns and his position does require him to travel to JetBlue Airways Florida headquarters to train members of his team once a …show more content…
He does show interest in returning to school but is uncertain about what to study. Through happenstance he became a safety analyst; however, Jay has a strong connect to his artist side and had dreamed of pursuing a career as a musician.
At a young age, Jay was exposed to music. Both his father and brother play brass instruments and recently his father started playing the guitar. At the age of eight, Jay took piano lessons and later when he expressed interest in drumming, his parents bought him a drum set and lessons. At 19, interested in the guitar, Jay self-taught himself how to play and within the year had bought his first guitar. During his leisure, he writes lyrics and music, he likes to travel to new cities and countries as well as plays a variety of sports from basketball to soccer.
Some of Jay’s important values are creativity with his writing, independence, his happiness, and time to do as he pleases. He is curious about the world, physics, people, and psychology. Jay can grasp complex technical details better than most people as well as a great sense of direction. However, as an introvert he finds it extremely difficult to balance solitude with an active social