Education & Professional Experience

Jim worked for Acorn Applications LLC as CTO, Cofounder between Jan 2013 and Apr 2016, for PRA Health Sciences as VP Strategic Technology between Nov 2009 and Dec 2012, for PPD as Executive Director Information Technology between May 2001 and Nov 2009, for Inceutica, Inc as Director of Technology between Mar 2000 and May 2001, for Boise Cascade Company as Division IT Manager between May 1992 and Mar 2000, for ABB as Certified Senior Field Service Engineer between May 1989 and May 1993, for Odom Hydrographic Systems as Senior Engineering Technician between Jan 1979 and May 1989.

 Skills & Competences

Jim has the following skills : Management, Portrait Painting, Data Science, Strategy, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Wildlife Painting, Machine Learning, Marine Photography, GCP, Software Development, Fine Art Photography, Seascapes, Portrait Photography, Business Analysis, Pharmaceutical Industry, Clinical Trials, Mixed Media Art.

Jim has earned the following certifications : Neural Networks and Deep Learning, delivered by Coursera; Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, delivered by Coursera; Convolutional Neural Networks, delivered by Coursera; AI For Everyone, delivered by Coursera; Structuring Machine Learning Projects, delivered by Coursera; Sequence Models, delivered by Coursera; Deep Learning Specialization, delivered by Coursera; Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization, delivered by Coursera.