CXO - Chief Experience Officer at Jampaq Software, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- CXO - Chief Experience Officer at Jampaq Software, Inc.
- Founder/Principal at Orbit Interaction
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- Chief Experience Officer at SeeqPod, Inc.
- Director, Design and User Experience at PalmSource, Inc.
- Director, Human Interface and Industrial Design at PEMSTAR Pacific Consultants, Inc.
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James Leftwich, IDSA’s Summary
James Leftwich, IDSA is CXO - Chief Experience Officer at Jampaq Software, Inc. in Belmont, California, where he and Founder/CEO Steve Doss develop software for a wide range of platforms and usages, both Jampaq's own products as well as consulting and development for clients. Platforms include mobile, product, desktop, web, and systems. Usages include games, social networks, consumer electronics, medical, enterprise, and industrial applications.
He is also founder and principal of Orbit Interaction, a pioneering and broad-based interaction design and intellectual property development consultancy located in Palo Alto, California. Trained as an industrial designer, he has over 25 years of broad design consulting experience.
Previously he was Chief Experience Officer at search technology company, SeeqPod, Director of Design and User Experience at PalmSource, and Director of Human Interface and Industrial Design with PEMSTAR Pacific Consultants.
Mr. Leftwich has extensive experience in the field of human interfaces, ranging from wearables, mobile, gestural slates, webpads, motion-sensing controls, and equipment in consumer, industrial, military, and medical fields. His clients have included Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Macromedia, Starsight Telecast (Gemstar), Polaroid, Kensington, Gyration, Acuson, Coherent, Pinnacle Systems, and Avica.
In 2004 his product and human interface design for the Natus ALGO®3i Newborn Hearing Screener won two major design awards. A Medical Design Excellence Award, the highest design award given by the medical industry. And a Bronze Award in Business Week Magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America's IDEA 2004 (Industrial Design Excellence Awards).
Mr. Leftwich holds 13 utility patents in human interface system methodologies and has numerous patents pending. A native of Missouri, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1983.
James Leftwich, IDSA’s Experience
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CXO - Chief Experience Officer
Jampaq Software, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
I've become CXO - Chief Experience Officer at Jampaq Software, Inc. in Belmont, California.
I've joined up with my longtime friend, colleague, and venture partner, Steve Doss, who's the Founder and CEO of Jampaq. A veteran software engineer and all-around renaissance creative master, Steve's produced many successful mobile games on the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms. Together we'll be extending that success into multiple computing platforms.
Very soon we will have some exciting news regarding our newest mobile game, so stay tuned!
We're also continuing to consult and develop software across wide range of platforms and usages, both Jampaq's own products as well as consulting and development for clients. Platforms include mobile, product, desktop, web, and combinations thereof. Usages include games, social networks, consumer electronics, medical, enterprise, and industrial applications. -
Founder/Principal
Orbit Interaction
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
March 1992 — Present (17 years 5 months)
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James Leftwich, IDSA’s Honors:
Bronze Award - Natus ALGO®3i Newborn Hearing Screener
IDEA2004 - Business Week Magazine/IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Awards
MDEA2004 - Natus ALGO®3i Newborn Hearing Screener
Medical Design Excellence Awards 2004
