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Jim Smith
Chief Architect Emerging Internet Technologies Group

Jim's Bio

18 years of experience in software development. Began his career at Sandia National Labs, Livermore California, designing high speed data acquisition systems and distributed computing systems. As part of the Enterprise Integration Development Team, Jim worked to create EIS libraries for a little known language at the time, Java.

Jim was one of the founders of IBM's Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS), a global software services and development organization with a mission to develop, refine and franchise advanced technologies and lightweight business processes for IBM. ATS comprises development labs, software architects and consultants in all IBM customer regions.

Jim resides in Apex, North Carolina with his wife, Sue, and three children.

Areas of Expertise

Over the past 10 years, Jim's team pioneered within IBM the adoption of Java, XML, Web Services, Rich Client technologies, Open source, ITSM and Web 2.0.


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