Collaborative Management
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- CEO at Modus Cooperandi
- Advisor at Various Startups
- Founder / CEO at Gray Hill Solutions, Inc
- Education
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- Meikai University
- Michigan State University
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Jim Benson’s Summary
The History:
- Building community through policy and technology for government agencies and private enterprise.
- Specializing in distributed teams and productivity.
- Leading highly distributed teams since the early 90s in software development, public policy, professional engineering and other knowledge work.
Today:
- CEO @ Modus Cooperandi - using Lean, Agile and Social Media principles to help individuals and small teams actualize
- Developer of Personal Kanban - a popular Lean tool for individuals and teams
Jim Benson’s Specialties:
Collaboration, Cooperation, Web 2.0, Business Development, Bureaucracy, government systems, geographic information systems (GIS), ESRI platforms,intelligent transportation systems, mapping, statistical analysis, business logic, asset management, transit, traffic, web design, transportation planning, urban planning, extreme programming, program management, project management, telematics
Jim Benson’s Experience
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CEO
Modus Cooperandi
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
At Modus Cooperandi we use lean systems thinking, agile management and social media to help our clients communicate and manage their distributed teams. We use these techniques to build collaborative management systems. Our client list includes the World Bank, the United Nations, government agencies and companies from startups to the Fortune 100 and the Fortune 10.
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Advisor
Various Startups
(Management Consulting industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
I am currently serving as an advisor role to a several startups, helping them with initial feature sets, product development processes and business decisions.
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Founder / CEO
Gray Hill Solutions, Inc
(Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)
Responsible for business planning, business development, and conceptual software design. Closely managed all HR, fiscal mangement, and strategy.
We specialize in the creation of GIS enhanced management software for governments and private clients. We created asset management and real time status applications most often for Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Our projects include:
A five jurisdiction communications bridge in Illinois
traffic.511.org - a real-time traffic information web application, the BayArea
BusSpeak - a transit signal priority management system
BusCarte - a transit web interface for riders
TreePro - urban forestry management software
We have completed dozens of customized projects for clients over the years as well. Current projects include customized embedded GIS application, XML data transfer mechanisms and an advanced traffic management system.
