James Emerson is a Associate Director, Data & Machine Learning Platforms at Wayfair at Wayfair. He possess expertise in virtualization, windows server, disaster recovery, system administration, microsoft exchange and 31 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "James is a superb leader with deep technical skills – a powerful combination when it comes to achieving desired business outcomes. He is universally respected for his willingness and ability to take on and achieve superior results on the toughest challenges. As just one example of many, he led HOSTING in achieving a perfect score of 100 on our AWS Managed Service Provider certification on the very first attempt. His technical skills are not only deep but run the gamut from traditional hosted infrastructure to public cloud providers such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Highly technical people want to follow James because they know he can reason through the toughest technical challenges and lead them to effectively overcoming them the right way, the first time; he quickly earns the credibility with customers for the same reason. And anyone James reports to will value him for his ability to get results that can essentially change the trajectory of a business in pursuit of desired outcomes. He’s a true unicorn with unlimited future potential and I consider it an honor and pleasure to have worked with him." and "James provided excellent and timely analysis of IT challenges. He coordinated quotations and contract vendors along with maintaining all IT solutions for DSU. He single handedly constructed our Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for Hurricane Sandy without failure of IT, phone and internet services. He is a professional who will accept nothing less than exceptional customer service."