Jim is a management of technology consultant specializing in high leverage situations that capitalize on his extensive 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 18 months, involve 1 to 4 consultants, and are typically overseen by a Senior Vice President of the client organization. His current focus is on the development of 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 (Imperial Chemical Industries).

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").

Throughout the past decade, conducted over 40 lectures, or equivalent, at the graduate level at:  MIT (Engineering of the Future), Harvard Business School (Entrepreneuring and Step Change), University of California - San Diego (Economic Analysis of Manufacturing), Northeastern University (Entrepreneuring and Game Change), Clark University (Consumer Activated Assembly), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Manufacturing Automation), University of Maine (Learning Organization), University of Melbourne in Australia (Entrepreneuring and Innovation), and Australian Broadcasting Educational TV (Globe in Crisis 2013 on April 17, 1993 with the Minister of Industry and Commerce and the Ambassador from Indonesia).

Granted a diplomatic-like reception at China's Great Hall of the People in Beijing by JIANG Zemin, Minister of Electronics and former Mayor of Shanghai (and currently the President of China), which appeared on China TV News that evening (October 15, 1985). Twice hosted (1985, 1993) in Beijing by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Vice Chairman, HU Qiheng, who is also Vice President and Director of the Institutes of Automation.

Currently, preparing a book with the working title, Paradigms of Progress, which claims that four distinct and rational paradigms govern the life cycle of progress at all levels of corporations from businesses, to projects and committees, down to individuals. These paradigms are models which resolve zero, first, and second order uncertainty, and the search for an overarching, unifying strategy. They have been called (by Tushman in 1967), "Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing." To go from one paradigm to the next requires the same cycle, (within a cycle), specifically, the next paradigm must be formed (articulated), stormed (competition of ideas), normed (convergence on one set of ideas), and performed (played before those affected and adjusted). From this, one rightly senses that the structure of the paradigm is fractal.

• "Process Control: The Next Generation" presented at the 1993 Du Pont/Honeywell DCS Users' Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 13, 1993.



• "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 (in French) at the 4th International MICAD Conference in Pais, 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.
  
  

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B. Sc. of Mathematics (1966)

• 1986-1988 for Denning Mobile Robotics, Inc. as Vice President of Engineering in Wilmington, MA

  At this development stage company, responsible for directing the development of the first commercial robotic's "night watchman" system. This security system included mobile robots, communications station, recharge docking station, and software that did navigation, communications (indoor mobile television and digital radio), security, self diagnosis, and predictive maintenance (NASDAQ Symbol: GARD). Some history is at Carnegie-Mellon University's Robotics Institute.




• In 1983-1986 for Computervision Corp. as Vice President of Technology in Bedford, MA
  In 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. Earlier, significantly increased overall CAD/CAM system productivity by implementing novel algorithms and data access methods which, in turn, helped the company's stock become the highest performer on the New York Stock Exchange (1978) (NYSE Symbol: CVN). Consulted to Rolls-Royce Aero on re-engineering.



• 1978-1983 for Unidata Systems, Inc. as President and Founder in Newington, NH
  
  At this high technology venture, managed the development of software intended to become the world leader in forms based tools for non-programmers on personal computers. This development stage company 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 in Southboro, MA
  
  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
  
  At this high technology venture, secured financing from Exxon and managed the development of speech recognition peripherals. The IEEE Spectrum (Sept. 1981) assessed its technology as the world's best.



• 1968-1970 for Sanders Associates, Inc. as Staff Mathematician in Nashua, NH
  
  At this military systems developer, proposed and planned a large computer systems business initiative. Wrote programs for a top secret, massively parallel computer for military reconnaissance and atomic energy use.



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


At this research facility, 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 (as a consultant to the Link Group). Studied graduate mathematics at MIT.

Average club tennis player (3.5 level), intermediate downhill skier, retired (at 35) league hockey player, and former horseman who trained and showed English riding and jumping horses. Favorite place in all the world, Bermuda!