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Chandler, Az, Us

Provide advice and guidance for the design, development and deployment of ground-breaking technology that will improve the lives of millions of patients in need of quality care in any facility.

North America

Improve your technology, transform your organization, make the world better

San Francisco Bay Area

As the COO for Thinaire James leads Business Development, Sales and Operations at Thinaire. As the Business Development leader, James develops key relationships and grows them into strategic opportunities to expand the reach of the Thinaire platform. James also leads the sales team in developing new customers in strategic markets including as Mass Market Retailing, Brands, Sports and Entertainment. Initially, James streamlined Thinaire operations to prepare it for scaling to the higher volume of business a PaaS offering requires.

San Francisco Bay Area

Greensparc is a San Francisco-based energy optimized cloud and edge cloud computing company that is issuing the CirrusCoin Token. Greensparc commoditizes high-performance distributed cloud computing in a way that is accessible by individuals, entrepreneurs, and enterprises. CirrusCoin tokenizes a new commodity: the linkage of electrical energy and cloud computing in a novel way. CirrusCoin is redeemable, by the holder, for the high-performance computation powered by resources in Greensparc’s network of edge cloud resources and co-located at optimal nodes in the energy grid (including renewable resources). https://CirrusCoin.netwww.greensparc.com

Provide advice and guidance for the deployment of a break-through application to assist individuals of like-mind and interests to get connected and "break-the-ice" at social activities.

Provide advice and guidance to the organization for it's implementation of a solution to better communicate with its individual supporters and partner organizations.

Greater New York City Area

The leading organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research – overarching goal to eradicate T1D sufferingCOO / CIO (January 2013 – Present)• Manage $185M P&L achieving revenue increases 2 consecutive years after 3 years of revenue declines• Led the significant turn-around in Corporate Sponsorship and Major Gifts• Launched the updated, energized JDRF brand and marketing campaign• Improved operational efficiency to earn Forbes Magazine designation as 1 of 5 “All-Star” organizationsCIO / SVP Operations (July 2012 – December 2012)• Aligned IT and Fundraising priorities to both execute current plans and build for the future• Created and executed new organization design positioning JDRF for revenue growthCIO (May 2009 – July 2012)• Overhauled technology infrastructure improving fundraising efficiency and donor management• Designed and deployed real-time monitoring of Key Performance Indicators for all departments• Secured Board of Directors support for strategic investments to implement these advancements.• Moved fundraising to cloud-based platforms (e.g. Convio (Blackbaud), Greater Giving)• Implemented cloud-based ERP, HR, Research and Training platforms

Greater Seattle Area

Software and services firm supporting F500 with solutions for assessing financial and business value of IT investmentsVP, Operations• Spearheaded development of new Cloud-Based ROI, TCO, IRR and NPV toolsets• Achieved customer satisfaction of 4.8/5, 99% on-time software delivery and 95% employee retention• Generated $2B savings for customers in 5 years

San Francisco Bay Area

Software and services firm supporting F500 with solutions for assessing financial and business value of IT investmentsVP, Operations• Spearheaded development of new Cloud-Based ROI, TCO, IRR and NPV toolsets• Achieved customer satisfaction of 4.8/5, 99% on-time software delivery and 95% employee retention• Generated $2B savings for customers in 5 years

San Francisco Bay Area

Start-up venture that pioneered the creation of high density, power efficient Blade ServersCOO / CIO• Articulated financial and business value of Blade Servers for venture capital firms and server manufacturers• Created operational plan supporting sales investment and direction for the company’s two diverse locations• Implemented information systems for Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Manufacturing and Logistics

San Francisco Bay Area

Networking equipment manufacturer of Internet voice, video, and data hardware and softwareDirector, America’s Information Technology• Responsible for business processes/systems supporting $9B (60% of total revenue), staff of 100 and $40M budget • Leveraged IT to empower the sales organization from Alaska to Brazil, producing major revenue growth• Set operational processes, goals and milestones with supporting analytic's for 160 offices in 19 countries

San Francisco Bay Area

Provider of products, services and solutions for the enterpriseSr. Director, eBusiness Operations (1996 – 1998)• Created a top 10 rated B2B and B2C e-Business site with tracking systems to monitor incremental salesDirector, Electronic Customer Support (1995 – 1996)• Spearheaded Internet based customer support, cutting costs by 50% in shifting from phone technologyManager, Sales Support Systems (1993 – 1995)• Established “The Interoperability Labs” as the premier competitive differentiator supporting $100M+ in salesManager, OEM Business Development (1990 – 1993)• Acquired critical technologies from other corporations via acquisition, joint venture and OEM relationshipsConsulting Engineer (1988 – 1990)• Led project team for Microsoft technology transfer and negotiating team for Microsoft relationship