James Ward Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Read all about it: https://www.jamesward.com/2017/04/03/thank-you-for-12-years-in-developer-evangelism/

San Francisco, California, Us

My Mission:Inspire and empower developers inside and outside of Salesforce to adopt and go further with Salesforce. Whether just getting started, learning new programmatic concepts, or working through complex problems, developers should have the demos, content, tools, and educational resources they need to level-up and become passionate users and evangelists for the platform.Areas of focus: Salesforce Integration (Heroku Connect, Salesforce Connect, REST, SOAP), Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Machine Learning, Functional Programming, Microservices, and Continuous DeliveryWorldwide conference presenter: JavaOne, Devoxx, Dreamforce, JavaZone, etcRecent Presentations: https://www.jamesward.com/presosPersonal blog (stuff I'm interested in): http://www.jamesward.com/Corporate blog (supporting product launches and the Salesforce developer community): https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/developer-relations/author/jameswardMeta blog: https://medium.com/@_jameswardDemo builder:Whether for presentations, assisting customers / sales, or just to learn something new, I build demos, samples, and tools. I helped build a number of pieces of Dreamhouse which was showcased at TrailheaDX and Dreamforce. My GitHub is full of other demos and samples: https://github.com/jameswardI answer questions on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/77409/james-wardOf course I tweet and for some reason a bunch of people are listening to my soapboxing: https://twitter.com/_JamesWard

San Francisco, Ca, Us

While my primary role was to evangelize the Typesafe technologies (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka), I was able to help with much more (yay startup). At Typesafe I created Activator, a tool which made it easy for developers to get started with the Typesafe technologies.Developer Marketing - Led the launch of a new corporate website - Managed the Typesafe blog and social media - Helped put on the Scala Days eventsProduct Management - Interim product manager for Play Framework and Typesafe Activator - Worked closely with engineering to define strategy and marketing for all productsEngineering - Actively contributed to Activator and Play FrameworkI also helped with sales and built infrastructure like the Contributor License Agreement tooling and customer portal.

San Francisco, California, Us

Developer Evangelist for Heroku

San Jose, Ca, Us

Same as Macromedia... After being acquired by Adobe my position stayed the same.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Deliver compelling technical briefings for strategic customers, press, and analysts.- Write influential technical white papers and articles.- Build inspiring proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and sample applications.- Work closely with product management and engineering to define product directions.- Be an influential voice representing the product in community forums and blogs.- Deliver technical workshops for key customers.- Present at industry conferences.- Lead field readiness activities.- Facilitate knowledge sharing and transfer within the company.

Ca, 95134, Us

- Architected, developed, and continue to maintain the marketing and customer service portal at www.pillardata.com - Utilized Macromedia Flex, ActionScript, AMF and Java for portal development - Pioneered the first successful Macromedia Flex based portal - Created a RIA interface for customer service requests and customer product / part information through integration with the Oracle eBusiness Suite - Integrated with Interwoven Team Site CMS for all web based content - Chosen for two Gartner RIA case study interviews - Architected and developed a system for processing XML formatted, diagnostic messages from Pillar's storage systems using Web Services, SOAP, and JAXP - Setup, configured, and maintain the OC4J Application servers - Built a prototype portal using BEA Portal, and JSR 168 Portlets - Prototyped a portal using Oracle 10g Portal - Architected, built, and maintain Pillar's Intranet using PHP and MySQL

- Founder, former board of directors member, and former officer - Involved in complete business life cycle from product and services sales through implementation, delivery, and maintenance - Architected, built and maintained 12 custom web applications using Struts, JSP, EJB Session Beans, EJB Entity Bean, and JDBC - Implemented Core J2EE Patterns as part of the applications developed - Created Ant and Maven build environment including use of XDoclet - Built and managed the JBoss, Tomcat, and PostgreSQL hosting infrastructure

- Created and managed the Java Hosting and Development division - Architected, built, and maintained 20+ web applications using Java Servlets, Struts, JSP, J2EE, EJB, CMP, JDBC, PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Perl - Successfully created and managed a stable web application, and database cluster with 700 web sites, 300 web applications, and 5000 user accounts - Responsible for growing customer base from 100 to 700 hosted sites, which grew the company's revenue 700% - Maintained 10+ Sun Solaris Unix servers running Apache httpd, Oracle 8i, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat and JBoss