Jim Benson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

We work with companies and agencies world wide, employing Lean, systems thinking, agile management and behavioral economics to help professionals and teams communicate, collaborate and manage their work. We specialize in creating coherent and enjoyable working systems for knowledge workers. This includes understanding work, thoughtful work selection, understanding variation, and creating environments free of political or interpersonal stress. We build collaborative management systems. Our client list includes Comcast, the World Bank, J.P Morgan, State Farm, the United Nations, government agencies and companies from startups to the Fortune 10.Learn more and see our extensive client list at http://moduscooperandi.com

Seattle, Us

Modus Institute is an online school teaching cutting edge management for the 21st century business and worker. We offer directed learning in time management, communication, distribute teams, visual systems, learning, forecasting, and Lean ideals. Current courses are available in successful distributed teams and Personal Kanban. Classes are self-paced or available in directed study groups for organizations. We help make sense of the often chaotic world of modern business. http://modusinstitute.com

Boston, Ma, Us

Teach and help evolve Lean Concepts, work the LEI Learning Partners, advance the usage and adoption of Lean worldwide

Seattle, Wa, Us

Personal Kanban takes lean philosophies and tools and applies them to time management for individuals and small teams. It is a visualization tool that lets people see the workload they've committed to and better plan how to complete it. Personal Kanban has merely two rules: visualize your work and limit your work in progress. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life now available at Amazon or ask your local bookseller.

I am currently serving as an advisor role to a several startups, helping them with initial feature sets, product development processes and business decisions.

Responsible for business planning, business development, and conceptual software design. Closely managed all HR, fiscal mangement, and strategy.We specialize in the creation of GIS enhanced management software for governments and private clients. We created asset management and real time status applications most often for Intelligent Transportation Systems. Our projects include:A five jurisdiction communications bridge in Illinoistraffic.511.org - a real-time traffic information web application, the BayArea BusSpeak - a transit signal priority management system BusCarte - a transit web interface for ridersTreePro - urban forestry management softwareWe have completed dozens of customized projects for clients over the years as well. Current projects include customized embedded GIS application, XML data transfer mechanisms and an advanced traffic management system.

Cooperation Commons is an open multidisciplinary study of cooperation. http://cooperationcommons.com. Guided by Howard Rheingold and Stanford University's Institute for the Future, the site is an effort to have a distributed study of a core aspect of human existence and survival: cooperation.

Treelink is an urban forestry think tank and non profit. I served as a Board Member for three years, working with Treelink on technology and urban forestry issues.

Portland, Oregon, Us

At DEA, I worked with major government clients including WSDOT, INS, FDA, USCS, ODOT and lots of other acronyms. I created transportation technology plans and oversaw the deployment of technology implementations for my clients across the US. I also worked as an urban planner on several "mega projects" - extremely large transportation planning and design projects.After several very happy years at DEA, I left to start Gray Hill Solutions and build interesting software as products. My decision to leave DEA was based primarily on the fact that I really wanted to develop products to help my clients operate more efficiently and DEA was a consulting company that was not interested in productization. I still work closely with current and former DEA employees and, in fact, miss it sometimes.

At Metro I was a professional Catch Phrase. At the time, the catch phrase of the industry was "Transportation Land Use Link". This meant that the planning industry was realizing that transportation planning and land use planning, in order to be successful, had to be conducted jointly. I was hired by Metro to provide this linkage to their ground breaking growth management plan known as Region 2040. It was fascinating work, but my job suffered from severe lack of direction. No one was really sure what I (the "transportation land use link") was supposed to do.So, after a little over a year, I came back to Seattle to take a break, write, make music and then get back into transportation technology planning and implementation.

Before Metro, I worked on the planning of Seattle's light rail system for three years; was a CADD expert for several architecture and engineering firms; worked at the Capital Area Transportation Authority in Lansing, Michigan, for two years; studied transit station locations and housing density in Tokyo, and wrote lots of angry youthful missives.I was also the co-chair of the Seattle chapter of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt for eight years, during which time I investigated in-depth the level of burn out one can achieve when working on something one truly loves.

Post Graduate, Transit Station Location

Bsup, Urban Planning, Russian Lit