Jim Spencer

Current

Owner at JBS Partners, Inc.

Past

Field Services Engineer at Performix Technologies
Assistant Vice President at Scudder Kemper Investments
Asst Room Service Manager at Four Seasons

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Education

Clark University
Principia College

Recommended

3 people have recommended Jim

Connections

220 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Jim Spencer’s Summary

*First Job
My career began with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in the rooms division and food and beverage in Santa Barbara, CA and Nevis, West Indies. In Boston, I worked with the number two at the Westin Hotel, Copley Place managing the annual and 5 year capital budgets and hotel lobby and restaurant renovations.

*Technology
I attended Clark University's MCSE program in 1997. Upon graduation I worked with a MSP and within six months passed all MCSE exams on the first go.

At Scudder Kemper Investments I built 30 Compaq Servers and sent them around the country, managing them remotely. Later as the Unix administrator, I worked with DNS and bringing new HP and Sun servers online. My final project was a $6.5M disaster recovery project involving 2 HP V class servers in a cluster connected to an EMC array with a Sybase database. There was about $147B in managed assets on the system.

Corporate mergers led to my lay off and short stint at a small technology firm in Burlington. This included a lot of travel and utilized my background in Unix, Windows and databases.

In 2002 I started my own business providing web site design, search marketing and related servies.

*Entrepreneur
In November, 2003 I began developing a new Chapter of BNI here in Winchester. I have since left BNI.

In 2004, in collaboration with the director of the Winchester Public Library we formed a local group of entrepreneurs called Networking @ the Library with over 500 members. Each meeting includes speakers of interest and time for networking.

In 2008 my first guest article, titled, "Is Twitter for the Birds?" was published on High Rankings Advisor was read by tens of thousands of readers.

Also in 2008 my first speaking engagement titled "Your small biz website: Light the fuse or thank the Muse? " was at the eBusiness Symposium in Arlington, MA.

In 2009 JBS Partners started our first BuddyPress social networking website for a large university in CA.

Jim Spencer’s Specialties:

Project management, technology implementation, web design, search engine optimization, photography, writing, consulting, customer service, follow-up, networking, presentation, internet marketing.

Jim Spencer’s Experience

Owner

JBS Partners, Inc.

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

JBS Partners works with businesses to develop or optimize their web sites. We serve a diverse range of industries from food and beverage and the auto industry to the legal profession.
We provide all of the necessary tools and talent for your project, including custom web design, programming, photography, writing, printing, search engine optimization and promotion, domain names, hosting and ecommerce all customized to meet your business requirements.
Field Services Engineer

Performix Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 2002 — October 2002 (9 months)

Traveling Engineer supporting Oracle, Sun, Linux and Windows operating systems running company software. Created and documented database creation scripts, resolved software issues, standardized installation procedures and generated internal and client documentation.
Assistant Vice President

Scudder Kemper Investments

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

July 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 4 months)

Built and remotely managed over 30 Windows servers distributed around the United States. Supported Sun and HP development and production Unix servers with Sybase databases. Production system comprised of two V class servers in a cluster attached to an EMC array with 1.5 terrabytes of storage. This supported $145B in assets and over 900 users and 5000 client accounts.
Asst Room Service Manager

Four Seasons

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; fs; Hospitality industry)

November 1990 — April 1994 (3 years 6 months)

Integral member of the opening management team that earned the the first, and at that time only, AAA 5 Star resort award in the Caribbean. Managed three departments, Room Service, Mini Bar and the Golf Beverage Cart.

We just returned to Nevis for a week, after twelve years away. We received the warmest welcome possible from the many people that we worked with. What a fabulous place to vacation, or live.

Jim Spencer’s Education

Clark University

MCSE , Computer Networking , 1997 — 1997
Principia College

BA , History , 1982 — 1986

Brooks House South
The Pilot

Activities and Societies:

School Newspaper - Awarded Second Best News Story in the state of Illinois

Additional Information

Jim Spencer’s Websites:

Jim Spencer’s Groups:

BNI - Business Networking International
Founder and past President of the Waterfield Chapter.
visit www.bnimass.com and search by chapter name.

Networking @ the Library - local entreprenuers gather to learn how to harness community resources, networking, to hear informative presentions by local entreprenuers.