Jim began his career in service to his country with the US Air Force, Strategic Air Command working in Avionics, Flight Controls, Star Track Navigation and Stability Augmentation Systems for B-52 Avionics, KC 135 Stratotankers (the first jet powered aerial refueling ) and FB 111 Swept-wing Bomber Fighters where he earned his top secret nuclear arms security clearance.

After his honorable discharge, he landed a position servicing early mobile telephones and briefcase telephones as an entry position to serve his Oceanography goals. After a short time, Jim was invited to assist as Vice President of what could have been the first "telecom" start up. The company, called "The Communicators" introduced briefcase telephones and car telephones as well as other executive communications such as portable video equipment for training and presentations.

With additional equipment such as telecom interconnectivity equipment Jim began his unique consultative selling process positioning his company with his mentor with top bay area leaders and technology companies. He was given special recognition in a letter for servicing the Chairman of the Board of the Bank of California's personal executive communications and a letter of thanks from Jack Webb, personal body guard to the late Governor Brown Sr. He gave several technology talks around the Bay Area and rapidly grew to be one of the youngest VP's in this emerging telecom era and noted by the famous Herb Caen's San Francisco Chronicle column as "the model of a space age executive with car phone built into the arm rest of his Porsche and the first California executive to purchase a personal computer [about the same time Bill Gates was negotiating with IBM for DOS]. He used the personal computer to help play out financial scenarios for his clients instead of using the old 13 column manual spread sheets at the time. He was also the first to write a newsletter [Channel Talk] and warned his customers about the dangers [and illegality] of inattentive driving while talking on the car phone. His company was featured in all the Bay Area news publications and appeared on KGO's Ron Owens Show concerning use of modern communication equipment.

After developing and selling this company he enjoyed a career change to serve Bay Area businesses as a mergers and acquisitions consultant. Jim's unique approach to client service landed him VP of Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions of American Equities Corporation, a San Mateo company. He immediately helped many owners of their corporation package several deals and was awarded the "Million Dollar" award at age 28 for achieving excellent service for his clients as he organized and sold their closely held corporations. His service also included helping sellers navigate away from poor buyer practices as an expert witness as he helped clients organize, appraise, evaluate and negotiate for the sale of their company. His drive for perfection, attention to detail, follow up and personal drive for success was naturally based in his understanding that it's the little things that matter.

As a natural evolution of M & A work, Jim was invited to assist the already successful national roll out of a business software program by helping in the creation of the first Corporate Valuation Program, still in existence today (bearval.com). The program and company, now with over 20 years success completed more than 10,000 valuations and the program is used now by the IRS, Accountancies and Institutions. Jim still works with this group in all of his new projects.

At 30 years of age, Jim settled down to raise his newborn over her first five years as he took an early retirement and stepped away from business to enjoy parenting fully. He sought to learn emergency first aid and rescue just in case.

Offering free training, he joined the all volunteer San Mateo County Sheriff Cliff and Scuba Rescue Unit; a relatively young and growing organization that served millions of people who trek on and around the beautiful, yet dangerous California Coast. As they trained him, he enjoyed the many opportunities to use his sport skills in surfing, scuba and other areas to help when individuals and families needed rescuing from ocean, cliff and lakes. He quickly was honored as Sergeant when he helped publish newsletters and grew the policies and procedures for training and consistency in this volunteer organization. His research led to helicopter ambulance service and working collaboratively with the Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue for certain scenarios they could not handle next to the cliffs.

He created the first documented diagrams of a structured rescue vehicle and his work was recognized by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors as he attended to several serious rescues and recoveries; including the lead diver for an FAA aircraft crash, evening recovery operation in San Carlos. He retired from this after training to catch a wave INTO the cliff rocks as the only means to reach a fallen victim. "Just stay behind and above the wave cavitation as it gently lays you down on the rocks; then hold on for dear life when it recedes and leaves you 12' above the water waiting for the next one." "It's time to hand the torch over to younger beings." As a side note, he is very proud of his son who was an Emergency Medical Technician trained in ocean rescue and became a fireman who was recently honored with the position of California's youngest Fire brigade Captain at age 28.

As the kids grew, so too did he move back into business and start his third career after being invited to help a local manufacturer who was financially damaged by Osborne Computer's bankruptcy and Sun Micro's early collapse. Through Jim's direct efforts with the IRS, bankers, creditors, employees, and customers, he rallied everyone to focus attention on customer needs and as a result, turned the customers from leaving toward competition to committing again with new projects. His projections met goals to within 3% based on his earlier developed financial plans as a financial appraiser. The company went on to build the first removable disk drives [Syquest] along with several military and industrial contracts. He later assisted in the merger with another company that grew to be Ford Motor Company's highly rated air bag component maker. This was the time that globalization was just coming to fruition using ISO 9000 standards as industrial guides and framework for development. This was his first turn around.

During this time, Jim decided to go to college for his Bachelor's degree in business administration. In college, he compiled his theories formulated around the social theories regarding the dissemination of innovation models (how fast can a company respond to change and improvement). His work quickly morphed to the nth degree and was awarded First Prize and published by the American Inventory & Production Control Society. His published paper was tested with several large, small and different companies and it was found that his mathematical formula, tested for reality and actual projects, held a 98% correlation coefficient when tested by his San Jose Statistics Professor. An extraordinary correlation result for an out-of-the-gate theory. His program continues to serve business by speeding up implementation while flushing out waste, inefficiencies and poor management.

At 43, Jim was invited to help a larger (200+ employee) contract manufacturer to transition to a global company by advancing their position in the Valley thru the attainment ISO 9000 certification. At the time (1993), the professional approach claimed 2 to 3 years and this company had attempted prior efforts with IBM. Jim suggested six months and not two years and went further to suggest the highest ISO rating for design services in order to position the company as a top tier designer. At the time they were #34. Within six months to the day, on his birthday, July 2, Jim succeeded in closing the first of class ISO Implementation which was then written about in a national magazine. The company has grown to twice its size and now serves top tier customers such as Cisco and Intuitive. Jim shared his simple implementation plans in a national broadcast in Washington D.C. along with a hosting program for international business to visit as a benchmark company in America.

His international reputation was forged when word got around to the International Executive Service Corps [IESC] funded by the US Agency for International Development, US Department of Defense and US Trade as he was invited to host an international delegation of Egyptian businessmen as part of a joint US/Egyptian program sponsored by Vice President Gore and President Mubarack.

This Egyptian benchmark tour of 11 exemplary US companies was set up to show the inner workings of an effective company in order to help collaborate with Middle East technology firms. Afterwards, he was honored with an invitation to speak at the American University of Cairo with a follow up commercial talk about sustaining ISO 9000 for strategic development as invited by Mohamed Nofal, a managing director of one of the technology firms. Due to an hip injury Jim could not attend but holds this as a new goal based on the dissonance occurring between America and the Middle East needing more American Citizen Ambassadors.

He continued his career sharing the secrets to success as he conducted several Quality Assurance Conferences & Speaking Engagements on Root Cause Analysis, (Forensic Management). He was elected Chairperson of the "Quality Forum," NASA/Ames Research and American Society of Quality (Oct. 1996) that featured his key note speaker: Astronaut Richard Covey, commander, Endeavour during STS-61, Space Shuttle, talking about the Hubble Quality Fix.

Pursuing an interest in launching new technology, Jim accepted the position of Director of Quality Assurance with RangeStar International, the first high-tech antenna company that presented to Nokia for embedded antennas. The company was later sold to Tyco. As he was moved by the idea of better antennas he saw his mother and other hard of hearing people struggle with cell phones. He searched for the ultimate antenna technology, using simple rules of waves, (such as ocean and sound) as he focused attention on re-shaping near field energy around the handset. He knew if he focused on the near fields, the far fields would be improved for cell phone antenna technology. His first invention, Vortis, was patented nationally and internationally.

He grew the technology, worked with regulatory bodies, and developed the means to commercialize the product for the hard of hearing. After starting a corporation to launch the technology in the US and after being acknowledged in an FCC Report and Order, Jim took this position and formed a company in Scotland as a means to provide a launch platform for Europe and Asia. Upon successful product launch and testing, he returned to the US after placing controls over to the new management to run the company.

Upon returning, Jim was recruited to take a company he'd previously worked with thru the rigors of Medical Device Manufacturing. With a targeted approach and focused scope, he succeeded within six months and again his accomplishment was recognized in a national publication.

He has recently been asked to come back and help launch Vortis Technology under a new California company to follow the intended launch process of early niche markets and a more realistic step process to fully roll out Vortis.

His present interest is to promulgate standards and help launch products within a refined, team process.

ISO 9000 standards are the refined iteration of "Continuous Improvement" (CI). CI is a process of taking the good ideas from the workers and rolling these upward to connect with strategic goals. It is a bottom up process that places more responsibility on management to "remove" obstacles rather than "control and slash." CI and ISO 9000 is the perfect industrial iteration of America's Constitution: "of the people, by the people and for the people.