Since 1995 Jay has been an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. In this role, he assists with a plastic tooling design class and with funded research in the area of injection mold tooling and processing.

Jay was on the board of directors of the Western Michigan section of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) from 1986 to 1997. Jay is currently on the Western Michigan section of SPE Education Foundation, which has a primary mission to promote plastics education in the Western Michigan area.

Jay has co-authored and presented 16 papers on education and the application of Moldflow products for various SPE publications and trade show events. He is also the editor of the 2006 edition of the Moldflow Design Guide.

She joined AT Group in Caracas in April 1998 where she worked as a Support Engineer and Technical Instructor for C-MOLD and Pro/Engineer covering Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico.

In January 2000, she was hired by C-MOLD to be part of the Marketing group in Louisville, KY to help develop the Latin-American market. In April 2000 she joined Moldflow as a Support Engineer in Boston, MA. Since October 2004, she has been in the Moldflow Training department as a Technical Instructor & Designer. Her main responsibility is the preparation and delivery of training courses for Moldflow Design Analysis software. Her bilingual skills (Spanish and English) are often used to assist Hispanic customers and resellers in America and Spain. Ana Maria is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Plastics Engineering at UMASS Lowell, where she teaches a “Computer Aided Design” course.

Experience in the plastics industry prior her graduation with a Bachelors degree includes an internship at Tupperware in Venezuela performing a variety of tasks in the areas of resin supply, production, tooling (mold maintenance) and quality control. She moved to Santiago-Chile to complete a 5-month internship at Plastics Haddad, S.A. in 1997 re-designing a plastic feeding bottle using CAD.

She has been a member of the Society of Women Engineer since 2003, which awarded her the title of Outstanding Member in 2004. She also is a member of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society of Plastics Engineers since 2005.