James Ward

Current

Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems Inc.

Past

Technical Evangelist at Macromedia, Inc.
Web Application Developer at Pillar Data Systems
Co-Owner at Ectropic, Inc.

Director of Web Technologies at Firstlink Technology, Inc.

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Education

Colorado Christian University

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

James Ward’s Summary

Rich Internet Application developer with 10 years of experience building web sites and web applications. Most recently architected and built the Adobe Flex based http://www.pillardata.com RIA web portal. Interested in advancing RIA technologies. See my resume for more information http://www.cayambe.com/James_Ward-resume.pdf

James Ward’s Specialties:

Customer relations, support, sales, software development, system administration, database administration, system integration
Macromedia Flex, ActionScript, Flash, AMF, JSR 168 Portlets, BEA Portal, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Struts, Tapestry, JSP, Servlets, CMP, JDBC, EJB, Java, J2EE, Ant, XML, SOAP, Web Services, JMX, J2EE patterns, OOP, Perl, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, WML, WAP, Eclipse, Linux, Sun Solaris, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat and JBoss

James Ward’s Experience

Technical Evangelist

Adobe Systems Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — Present (4 years )

Same as Macromedia... After being acquired by Adobe my position stayed the same.
Technical Evangelist

Macromedia, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

- Deliver compelling technical briefings for strategic customers, press, and analysts.
- Write influential technical white papers and articles.
- Build inspiring proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and sample applications.
- Work closely with product management and engineering to define product directions.
- Be an influential voice representing the product in community forums and blogs.
- Deliver technical workshops for key customers.
- Present at industry conferences.
- Lead field readiness activities.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and transfer within the company.
Web Application Developer

Pillar Data Systems

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

December 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 9 months)

- Architected, developed, and continue to maintain the marketing and customer service portal at www.pillardata.com
- Utilized Macromedia Flex, ActionScript, AMF and Java for portal development
- Pioneered the first successful Macromedia Flex based portal
- Created a RIA interface for customer service requests and customer product / part information through integration with the Oracle eBusiness Suite
- Integrated with Interwoven Team Site CMS for all web based content
- Chosen for two Gartner RIA case study interviews
- Architected and developed a system for processing XML formatted, diagnostic messages from Pillar's storage systems using Web Services, SOAP, and JAXP
- Setup, configured, and maintain the OC4J Application servers
- Built a prototype portal using BEA Portal, and JSR 168 Portlets
- Prototyped a portal using Oracle 10g Portal
- Architected, built, and maintain Pillar's Intranet using PHP and MySQL
Co-Owner

Ectropic, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 10 months)

- Founder, former board of directors member, and former officer
- Involved in complete business life cycle from product and services sales through implementation, delivery, and maintenance
- Architected, built and maintained 12 custom web applications using Struts, JSP, EJB Session Beans, EJB Entity Bean, and JDBC
- Implemented Core J2EE Patterns as part of the applications developed
- Created Ant and Maven build environment including use of XDoclet
- Built and managed the JBoss, Tomcat, and PostgreSQL hosting infrastructure
Director of Web Technologies

Firstlink Technology, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

October 1997 — June 2002 (4 years 9 months)

- Created and managed the Java Hosting and Development division
- Architected, built, and maintained 20+ web applications using Java Servlets, Struts, JSP, J2EE, EJB, CMP, JDBC, PHP, HTML, JavaScript and Perl
- Successfully created and managed a stable web application, and database cluster with 700 web sites, 300 web applications, and 5000 user accounts
- Responsible for growing customer base from 100 to 700 hosted sites, which grew the company's revenue 700%
- Maintained 10+ Sun Solaris Unix servers running Apache httpd, Oracle 8i, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat and JBoss