James "Jt" Thome, Jr. Email & Phone Number

Commissioned an Army officer upon graduation from West Point. Upon departing the Army, was recruited by AT&T and managed their global support call center before moving to the data networking / acquisitions sales branch. While there, met and joined the original WebMD.com management team.At WebMD for 8+ years, held several senior and executive level management positions including Director of IT, VP of Product Management, VP of Engineering Services, and VP of Program Management. Today, WebMD is the world’s leading provider of online health information and health management services and touches more than 100MM people / month and has revenues in excess of $1B.Following WebMD, joined Jewelry Television (America's fasting growing home shopping network) as SVP of E-Commerce. Promoted to the role of CIO for the company responsible for technology, business intelligence and e-commerce activities. JTV.com grew from 8% of company sales to nearly 24% while there - team doubled in size. JTV.com is now the 4th largest pure jewelry website in the United States.In June '09 joined the executive team at MBS to run Textbooks.com. After growing sales 68% YOY and implementing a web analytics platform, site acceleration technology, an email marketing platform, a textbook marketplace (in part with Barnes and Noble) and a textbook rental program, Textbooks.com is now the only textbooks retail website with more options than Amazon.com.Decided to move the career and the family to Knoxville, TN to join the team at Cellular Sales. As the COO I am responsible for scaling Verizon's largest and fastest growing premium agent to meet the ongoing growth opportunities and challenges of the future. We currently operate 785+ stores in 40 states and growing.Holds a BS in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from Emory University.Specialties: Leadership, Strategy, Product Management, Biz Development, Operations, and Mergers / Acquisitions

Listed skills include Leadership, E Commerce, Product Management, Business Development, and 46 others.