Jim specializes in high leverage situations that capitalize on his technological, entrepreneurial, and managerial background. His originality, depth, and quality continually bring him in contact with members of World Class organizations such as MIT, Tsinghua University, Du Pont, and Motorola. His consulting projects generally run 6 to 24 months. His focus is on managerial processes to guide the implementation of technologically enabled Step Change and Game Change.

Consulting, mostly to Du Pont Nylon, on: Step Change in Production Process Improvement, Game Change Business and Technical Strategies, Demand Activated Production, and Resource Allocation. Other clients include American Express, AT&T, and Fiat. Consulted to them on Information Technology Strategies, Japanese Benchmarking, and Manufacturing Metrics, respectively.

At the MIT based firm, Pugh-Roberts Associates, led Management of Technology consulting projects on: Corporate Venture Processes (Motorola), Measuring R&D Performance (Bell Laboratories), Strategic Technology Planning (Dun & Bradstreet), and Leveraging Information Technology (ICI).

Consulting methods recognized in the Harvard Business Case "Step Change at Du Pont's Camden Plant," 1994, which is being taught at the Harvard Business School (available upon request). Cited by John Sculley in his book, Odyssey: From Pepsi to Apple, 1987, as inspiring his formulation of Second Wave versus Third Wave management paradigms (see table in the Chapter, "A Telephone Call").

• Process Control: The Next Generation presented at the 1993 Du Pont/Honeywell DCS Users' Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 13, 1993.
• Renewal Patterns: Before and After Dominant Design presented at the Academy of Management's 49th Annual Conference in Washington, D. C., on August 15, 1989.
• The Evolving Role of Universities and Institutes in CAD/CAM presented at the CITIC/Computervision CAD/CAM Conference in Beijing, China, on October 15, 1985.
• Future Trends in Hardware and Open Systems presented at the CAMP '85 Conference in Berlin, Germany, on September 25, 1985.
• CAD Product Directions for User Planning presented by co-author Jean-Pierre Glachant at the 4th International MICAD Conference in Paris, France, on March 1, 1985.
• Future CAD Products presented at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 10th Design Automation Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 8, 1984.

• 1986-1988 for Denning Mobile Robotics, Inc. - Vice President of Engineering

  Directed the development of the first commercial robotic night watchman system.

• 1983-1986 for Computervision Corp. - Vice President of Technology
  1976-1978 for Computervision Corp., as Staff Consultant in Bedford, MA

  At this world leader in CAD/CAM and Fortune 500 Company, responsible for technology strategy, technology transfer, and consulting with major customers.
  

• 1978-1983 for Unidata Systems, Inc. as President and Founder in Newington, NH

  Managed the development of forms based tools for non-programmers. Grew to 60 people and achieved a public evaluation of $30,000,000 (NASDAQ Symbol: UDAT).

• 1974-1975 for Data General Corp. as Sales Engineer

  For this minicomputer systems manufacturer, sold systems in protected territory from cold call through closing.

• 1971-1973 for Dialog Systems, Inc. (later, Verbex) as President and Founder in Cambridge, MA

  Managed the development of speech recognition technology which The IEEE Spectrum (Sept. 1981) assessed as the world's best.
  
  

• 1968-1970 for Sanders Associates, Inc. as Staff Mathematician in Nashua, NH

  Programmed a top secret, massively parallel computer for military reconnaissance and atomic energy use.
  
  

• 1966-1968 for MIT Instrumentation Lab. as Research Engineer in Cambridge, MA

  Designed and implemented the operating system used in the U. S. Navy's Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles and the operating system for the Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator used to train the Astronauts.