Since first arriving in L.A. in 2012, James has been leading and supporting the production of large web development projects and company INTRAnets for enterprise level clients like L.A. Care, FEMA, San Diego Gas & Electric, Cooperative of American Physicians, the Computing Research Association, USC, UC Berkeley, the California Science Center, Participant Studios, and SpaceX; all on Drupal.

James has given presentations on Agile project management, business communication, and disaster planning at BAD Camp, SAND Camp, Drupal Camp L.A., Drupal Camp Stanford, Asheville Drupal Camp, GLAD Camp, EduWeb, PNW Drupal Summit, and SAC Camp.

He gave presentations about production techniques at Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetups, and Drupal Business Summits. James produced a video blog for Team FREDNET (TFX), one of the groups that was in competition for, the Google Lunar X-Prize (and the only Open Source based team). James has given presentations to NASA on the TFX's mission profile.

As a Technical Project Manager at a digital agency, James coordinated all of the pieces that must come together in order to deliver highly functional websites on more than 20 Drupal sites over 3 years. James holds a Masters Degree in Economics, as well as an MBA in Finance, and he has been serving client's needs by turning concepts into polished deliverables since 2001. Later he worked for many years as an in-house digital project manager for web properties at L.A. Care. Most recently, he was working as the Director (of PMO) at Stauffer, Inc., another web-engineering agency in L.A.

Hobby are an addiction to photography, working with local Boy Scouts, or supporting Toastmasters, and motorcycling.

Specialties:
Disaster Management/Business Continuity, Business Communications, Web Properties Strategy & Mgmt., Project Life Cycles, Web Content Mgmt., Access Database Development, Change Management, Production Management, Report Automation and Data Analytics, Process Improvement Analysis/Management, Construction Project Management.

James has given presentations on communications, projects management, and Emergency Management/Business Continuity at:

- WebCamp Stanford 2020 - https://stanford.io/2SkY1s8
- WebCamp Stanford 2019 - https://youtu.be/tuiFterDu00
- BAD Camp 2018 - https://youtu.be/8DNPmVhNkXE
- Drupal Camp Asheville 2018 - https://youtu.be/PLj0hG74KBg
- Drupal Camp Stanford 2018 - https://bit.ly/2IlHAFL
- SAND Camp 2018 - https://youtu.be/Gy9jAmZKKsg
- Drupal Camp Stanford 2016 - https://youtu.be/Xedfd30cu3k

- Produced 75 episodes of the video blogs for Team FREDNET (TFX), one of the groups that were in competition for the Google Lunar X-Prize - https://bit.ly/2zASKnm

- SAND Camp 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
- Drupal Camp L.A. 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
- GLAD Camp 2013
- EduWeb 2014
- Stanford Drupal Camp 2016
- PNW Drupal Summit 2016
- SAC Camp 2012

- Presentations to NASA for TFX

As a Technical Project Manager at a digital agency, James coordinated all of the pieces that must come together in order to deliver highly functional websites on more than 20 Drupal sites over 3 years. Currently, he is an in-house digital project manager for web properties at L.A. Care. He also serves as an officer for the Toastmasters Club and has been awarded a "Advanced Communicator Silver" achievement; giving presentations monthly for the last three years, over 36 speeches. He holds a PMP Certification and is a Certified Scrum Master.

Other web work and clients:

https://www.alvernia.edu/
https://www.curtisswright.com/home/default.aspx - intranet
https://www.globalhealthlearning.org/
https://encompassworld.com/clients/
https://www.usaid.gov/
https://figopetinsurance.com/
https://cisr.mit.edu/
https://www.magmutual.com/
https://www.purchasingpower.com/
https://californiasciencecenter.org/
https://www.usc.edu/
https://www.sempra.com/
https://www.sdge.com/
https://participant.com/
https://www.ucla.edu/
https://www.montefiore.org/
https://einsteinmed.org/
https://metrolinktrains.com/
https://www.washingtongas.com/
https://www.mlkch.org/home
https://ocfair.com/
http://first5santabarbaracounty.org/
https://www.uclaextension.edu/
https://www.uclaextension.edu/
https://www.portosbakery.com/
https://versaillescubanfood.com/