James Fort Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, CA, US

I'm a Research Product Manager at Meta Reality Labs. I am responsible for the Aria Research Kit, empowering the world's leading academic and industrial researchers to push the state of the art in augmented reality, egocentric computer vision, and contextual AI.

San Francisco, US

Bringing Unity's Technology Portfolio to the Cloud

San Francisco, US

Seattle, WA, US

I program manage the development and delivery of the deep learning (neural network) models that power Alexa's search and ranking capabilities. I'm proud to have joined a team of eight applied scientists and an accomplished science manager that specialize in Natural Language Processing (NLP), as well as a large team of computer scientists that build.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsibilities:
• Launch TPM for Echo multimodal (visual and voice) devices in all international marketplaces on the ‘17/’18 roadmap
• Drove execution for all Alexa and Echo technical dependencies, including Device Software, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Text to Speech (TTS), domain feature software.
• Document owner for a comprehensive monthly program review for Amazon Senior VPs Dave Limp and Tom Taylor covering all aspects of Alexa international expansion across the Amazon organization with 50+ contributing teams
• Owned definition and execution for all program milestones: schedule commitment, infrastructure readiness, beta start, code complete, announce, and launch
• Worked closely with product teams to develop crisp requirements per feature, marketplace, and device to ensure international customer experiences at parity with USAchievements:

Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR

• Responsibilities:
• Owned simulation Go-to-Market strategy, industry requirements, and technical marketing collateral for 2 of the company’s 12 industry segments (Aerospace & Defense, Marine & Offshore), representing $10's of Millions in.
• Managed a global team of four applied scientists with advanced degrees and an average of 18 years of experience
• Managed industry partner relationships for strategic technologies and consulted leadership through M&A process
• Owned strategic planning for industry conference publications across global commercial and academic venuesAchievements:
• Integrated structural, fluid, and electromagnetic simulation models into a parametric design of a composite drone manufactured by the National Institute of Aviation Research

Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR

• Responsibilities:
• Owned technical roadmap and business growth strategy for thermal-structural simulation and design optimization products for high-end industrial 3D-printing
• Performed market research to define development and industry engagement roadmap through literature review and engagement with R&D leaders in academia and industry
• Worked with key customers to define solution requirements from manufacturing challenges and translate into computational problem definitions
• Managed a community of 15 early adopter super-user customers to critically review early product iterations and feed development requirements
• Program managed business development activities with sales teams in North America, Europe, and Asia

Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR

• Responsibilities:
• Managed technology and business execution for a strategic group of key Aerospace customers worldwide
• Evaluated simulation tooling and workflow landscape in customer organizations to design engagement plans to advance the usage of computational methods
• Managed strategic industry partnerships, including collaborative development of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) technical proposals
• Developed new simulation workflows to demonstrate technology capabilities for pre-sales and marketing activitiesAchievements:
• Drove $550K revenue growth across accounts in 2014

Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR

• Responsibilities:
• Managed all aspects of training business for Western North America and instructed a broad range of training courses in nonlinear structural analysis, acoustics and vibration, heat transfer, fluid-structure.
• Developed and negotiated Statements of Work with customers for custom training and consulting
• Provided in-depth technical consulting to develop simulations for customers in Western North AmericaAchievements:
• Realized $393K training revenue in 2013, representing 15% growth from 2012
• Developed an automated simulation method using Python for consumer electronics drop test for high tech customer using explicit dynamics and parametric optimization techniques

Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR

• Responsibilities:
• Simulation methods development for the structurally critical center wing box of the 787-8 and 787-9 airplane programs
• Defined simulation methods and automation tools for facture mechanics analysis of composite layups in load- bearing beams spanning the width of the aircraft
• Project managed and supported a team of 20+ structural analysts executing workflows with the developed methods
• Interfaced with multiple sub-organizations across the enterprise to align on methodologies for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certificationAchievements:
• Achieved test-verification and FAA approval of both the developed modeling methods and all simulation results

Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR

• Responsibilities:
• Provided technical support, consulting services, and training to automotive OEMs and suppliers, solving a broad range of engineering problems
• On-site consultant at an automotive supplier developing thermo-mechanical simulation methods for analysis of heavy truck exhaust systems
• Acoustics and Vibration lead for the regional office, teaching theory and application courses for customersAchievements:
• Developed a coupled structural-acoustic workflow to predict resonance in an automotive fuel rail
• Developed a method for estimation of acoustic sound power levels in automotive engines operating at various speeds

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

High School, International Baccalaureate