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James graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. His first job was working for Cessna Aircraft Company, where he joined the IT team to help implement the company’s Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) system. After observing the challenges the industry faced using these clunky and often outdated systems, James founded his own company, JLJ Enterprises, dedicated to helping aerospace companies modernize their MRP systems. Over the next six years he helped large aerospace and defense contractors including Northrop, Sikorsky, and General Dynamics, hone their manufacturing software to better support their businesses and operations.

Ready for a change, James founded his second company, Connective Solutions, in 1994. The consultancy was one of the first to support companies with Lotus Notes implementations, providing training services nationwide. In 1998 James was recruited as a full-stack developer for Clear Technologies and placed as the head of development for their budding CRM solution, C2CRM, which would grow to compete head to head with Siebel, SalesForce, and SalesLogix solutions. C2CRM won Top 15 awards from the ISM group in 2003 and 2004, becoming the only product to win in both Enterprise and SMB categories.

James now heads up the Clear C2 development team, still taking a hands-on role in product design and development. He has spent his entire life developing software and still loves pretty much all aspects of it—the problem solving, analytical thinking, design, development, learning new technologies—everything except QA.