Jim Baker

Current

Consultant at Zyasoft

Past

Co-Founder at BizLogix
Technical Advisor at sessions.edu
Chief Scientist, Founding CTO at Empact Solutions

Enterprise Architect at Invenio Technologies
Software Engineer at Kenan Systems

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Education

Brown University
Harvard College

Recommended

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Connections

193 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Jim Baker’s Summary

Jim Baker has over 15 years of professional software development experience, focusing on business intelligence, enterprise system management, and high-performance web applications. He co-founded both Empact Solutions, raising $10M in VC financing, and BizLogix. He has worked with far too many of the Fortune 100 at some point or another. Jim is a committer on Jython and also leads the Front Range Pythoneers, a merry band of local Python enthusiasts. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Harvard University and a Masters of Computer Science from Brown University (and an all-but-dissertation PhD candidate). Jim is a member of Brown's Computer Science Department's Industrial Partners Program.

Jim Baker’s Specialties:

Software architecture, design, and development
Data analysis
Decision support, business intelligence
Compilers and language implementations
Web applications
Python and dynamic languages

Jim Baker’s Experience

Consultant

Zyasoft

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)

Provides consulting for Ajax user interfaces, business intelligence, data warehouses, high-performance web sites, enterprise systems management, scientific computing, and systems development in Python, Jython, Java, JavaScript, and Perl.
Co-Founder

BizLogix

(Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — November 2006 (3 years 3 months)

CTO
Technical Advisor

sessions.edu

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Chief Scientist, Founding CTO

Empact Solutions

(Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years)
Enterprise Architect

Invenio Technologies

(Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)
Software Engineer

Kenan Systems

(Computer Software industry)

1991 — 1994 (3 years)

Jim Baker’s Education

Brown University

Sc.M. , Computer Science , September 1994 — May 1997

Qualified for Ph.D.
Harvard College

A.B. , Computer Science , September 1987 — June 1991