Tim Jakubowski on a recent trip to Utah

From client to client, country to country, Tim Jakubowski (BIS, ‘04) is always on the move. As an advisory director in Portland for consulting firm KPMG, Jakubowski gets to work with some of the biggest companies in the Northwest in some of the best places around the world.

“I like to control things, but I also like the uncertainty of it,” the College of Business graduate said. “I really don’t know what I’ll be working on in two or three months.”

Jakubowski got his first taste of the fast-paced life of consulting as an intern for KPMG while at Oregon State. He was instantly drawn to the excitement of attacking a new challenge every day.

“What really drew me to the consulting world is being able to meet so many people and going into different offices, discovering the unique problems they may have and helping them solve them,” he said.

In his role at KPMG, Jakubowski splits his time between IT auditing and consulting, advising clients on how to better use their IT resources and improving their business processes. Since joining KPMG in 2004, Jakubowksi has worked with companies like Amazon, Columbia Sports and Weyerhaeuser. In that time he’s worked in 25 countries on four continents, including two years living in Ireland.

“I truly have some of the most high-profile clients that call this area home,” he said. “It’s given me the opportunity to work with a really diverse client group, which has been fantastic.”

Jakubowski has always had a love of travel, including studying abroad in Copenhagen while a student at Oregon State.

“It’s definitely something I’ve always wanted to do,” he said. “If you looked at my discretionary spending in my late teens, early 20s, probably most of it was to travel abroad.”

Despite his busy schedule, Jakubowski finds time to give back to Oregon State. He comes back to campus to assist with classes and also serves on the OSU Business Information Systems Advisory Board.

“I owe a lot of my career to the College of Business and the BIS program and I think it’s the right thing to do, and encourage all graduates to do that,” Jakubowski said.

While Jakubowski serves as a great mentor to current students, he also loves being around the excitement and enthusiasm of campus.

“If I had any other career, I’d want to be a professor,” Jakubowski said. “I probably get as much from the students as I pass on to them.”