Jim is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft who covers the Northeast District (namely, New England and upstate New York). His overall focus is to engage with the development community in the area through user groups, code camps, BarCamps, Microsoft-sponsored events, etc., and just in general serve as ambassador for Microsoft. Over the past year or so, Jim has been focusing on software development scenarios using cloud computing and Windows Azure.
Jim joined Microsoft in April 2008 after nearly 12 years working for Sybase in a support and sales consultant role for its developer tools, namely PowerBuilder and EAServer. Prior to that he worked on various DoD projects at MITRE (Bedford, MA) and BDM International (in McLean, VA, now subsumed by Northrop Grumman). Jim received in B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Austin Peay State University in 1985 and his M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1987