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Jafar Maurice

Sports Technology Builder · Community Media Founder · Enterprise IT · Human Performance

I build at the intersection of sports, people, media, and technology. My work connects nearly three decades of coaching and athlete development with 20+ years of enterprise technology and founder-led product development.

Sports Community MediaIPTV / OTTFan EngagementEnterprise ITSports PerformanceProduct Building
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Jafar Maurice

Vancouver, Washington

Founder · Builder · Coach · Technologist

1997

Coaching career began

20+

Years enterprise technology

400+

Toyota users supported

NFL · NBA · WNBA

Athlete experience

Featured Product Concept · JL Network

The video is the campfire. The community is the product.

JL Network is a sports-first community media platform concept designed to connect athletes, coaches, teams, parents, alumni, students, and fans around the moments they already care about: games, highlights, training, analysis, and shared sports identity.

Instead of building another generic social feed or another isolated streaming player, JL Network brings community presence, athlete profiles, social viewing, team media, and performance analysis into one connected sports experience.

A digital sports community

Parents: stay connected to games, tailgates, family rooms, photos, reactions, and highlights even when an athlete is across the country.

Athletes: build a living sports profile with highlights, media, teams, development history, and shareable video.

Coaches: create communities, publish content, review clips, annotate video, and connect analysis to development.

Colleges & teams: extend the athletic community beyond the venue through branded communities, live-event presence, campus media, fan engagement, and sponsor opportunities.

Sports Communities

Profiles and private or public communities for athletes, coaches, teams, parents, alumni, students, and fans.

Social Viewing

Virtual tailgates, game check-ins, watch-party rooms, reactions, chat, and community presence around live and on-demand sports.

Athlete Media

Highlights, photos, team video, training clips, game film, and coach-to-athlete video analysis in one sports identity.

Smart Sports Guide

A sports-aware guide that connects community activity to authorized live streams, team-owned media, campus content, and subscription services.

Performance Analysis

Connect JL Vision concepts to clip review, slow motion, annotations, movement analysis, coaching notes, and athlete development workflows.

Campus & Venue Layer

A future enterprise layer for colleges, teams, venues, suites, digital signage, sponsor inventory, and managed community media experiences.

Current Prototype · Media & Infrastructure

Building the media engine before the full network.

The current hands-on prototype uses Jellyfin, Kodi, Windows services, reverse-proxy infrastructure, Live TV, EPG/XMLTV concepts, media-feed normalization, remote access, Trakt-powered discovery, and TV-first interface work to understand the real technical and user-experience problems behind community viewing.

JellyfinKodiLive TVEPG / XMLTVM3UCaddyReverse ProxyRemote StreamingTraktTV UXGuide OverlaysMedia Discovery

Rights-aware architecture

The product can host owned/team-authorized media and community-generated content while deep-linking users to authorized third-party services for rights-controlled broadcasts.

Social layer around the stream

JL Network can own the identity, presence, chat, reactions, check-ins, tailgate, highlights, and analysis experience even when the video itself is delivered by an authorized external service.

Community before, during & after

The event lifecycle becomes pregame tailgate, live game room, postgame conversation, highlights, and analysis instead of a stream that disappears at the final whistle.

Why I Build This

I understand the sports community

I have worked with athletes, parents, coaches, schools, teams, professional players, and training communities for nearly three decades.

I understand the technology

My enterprise career spans implementation, desktop support, networking, identity, endpoint management, SaaS, documentation, and customer enablement.

I connect the two

My value is translating real sports-community problems into product workflows, media experiences, technology requirements, and understandable solutions.

Professional Experience

A career built across sport and technology.

Founder & Product Builder

JL Influence / JL Network

Vancouver, WA

2019 — Present

Building connected products across sports community media, athlete intelligence, streaming, coaching workflows, and human performance.

  • Designing JL Network, a sports-first community media concept connecting athlete and coach profiles, team communities, virtual tailgates, watch parties, messaging, highlights, and video analysis.
  • Prototyping the media layer with Jellyfin and Kodi, live-TV/EPG workflows, M3U organization, remote streaming, TV-first navigation, playback experiences, and personalized discovery.
  • Developing JL Smart Guide as a rights-aware discovery layer that can connect users to authorized broadcasts while keeping community, social activity, and sports identity inside JL Network.
  • Building JL Vision, JL Pulse, and JL Speed concepts around biomechanics, video review, readiness, athlete feedback, and coach-facing decision support.

Founder / CEO & Head Performance Coach

Black Star Athletic Academy / JL Speed

Vancouver / Portland Metro

2010 — 2025

Built and operated sports-performance programs spanning private coaching, full teams, youth development, elite athletes, professional athletes, and community partnerships.

  • Trained NFL, NBA, WNBA, collegiate, elite youth, and developing athletes across football, basketball, soccer, and track & field.
  • Created MoveLab programming, JLSpeed methodology, team strength and conditioning, speed development, group training, and athlete assessment systems.
  • Built partnerships with schools, coaches, families, Boys & Girls Club of America, regional soccer clubs, and community sports organizations.

L2 Desktop Support Technician

Tata Consultancy Services / Cognizant — Toyota Motor North America

Portland, OR

2020 — 2026

Enterprise support for 400+ users across corporate and operational environments with high-touch service, endpoint administration, and cross-functional troubleshooting.

  • Supported Windows, Microsoft 365, Active Directory, Azure AD, SCCM, Intune, ServiceNow, Jira, networking, printers, mobile devices, and warehouse technology.
  • Owned onboarding/offboarding, account access, device preparation, deployment, documentation, and user enablement workflows.

Deskside Technician

Stefanini — Nike World Headquarters

Beaverton, OR

2018 — 2019

Delivered deskside and VIP support inside a global sports brand environment, supporting Mac, Windows, Microsoft 365, imaging, deployment, Active Directory, and ServiceNow.

Enterprise IT / Implementation

Future Networking · Commerce Bank · Evanta · Protech · Columbia Sportswear

Pacific Northwest

2004 — 2015

Progressive experience across desktop support, systems administration, POS implementation, networking, migrations, documentation, client training, and business technology operations.

Sports Career Highlights

The sports credibility behind the product.

JL Network is not being designed from outside the sports world. It comes from years spent inside teams, training facilities, camps, school programs, parent conversations, athlete development, and championship environments.

High school track coaching began at Franklin High School in 1997; coached 12 state-qualified sprinters.
Seasonal team strength and conditioning coach for Rex Putnam High School and La Salle College Prep, 2012-2015.
Adult functional fitness and small-group coach at Twist Fitness & Conditioning, Jan 2014-Mar 2015.
Led professional-athlete football camps and boot camps for Malik Jackson, Mychal Rivera, and Kendrick Bourne.
National championship track & field coach for sprints and long jump with JL Sports Performance, 2016-2018.
Ran speed development for Coach MJ Tate's OUFC 03G championship soccer program in 2018.
Current JL Speed Development work serves developing and elite athletes and teams, 2024-present.

Capabilities

Sports Media & Product

Sports Community PlatformsIPTV / OTT ConceptsJellyfinKodiLive TV / EPGM3U WorkflowsStreaming UXTV-first NavigationWatch PartiesDigital Signage ConceptsFan EngagementProduct Discovery

Enterprise Technology

Microsoft 365Active DirectoryAzure ADSCCMIntuneServiceNowJiraWindowsmacOSNetworkingEndpoint ManagementTechnical Documentation

Human Performance

Speed DevelopmentStrength & ConditioningBiomechanicsSprint MechanicsMovement AssessmentVideo AnalysisTeam TrainingGroup FitnessAthlete DevelopmentCoach Education

Founder & Customer

Requirements GatheringSolution StorytellingCustomer EducationCommunity BuildingPartnership DevelopmentProduct StrategyWorkflow DesignTechnical DemonstrationsUser Support

What I Bring

I can walk into the room with the athlete, the coach, the IT team, or the customer — and understand what each one needs.

That combination is the through-line of my career: make complex systems understandable, make technology useful, build trust with people, and turn real-world problems into practical experiences.

jafar@jlinfluence.comConnect on LinkedInJL Influence
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