When Jim was consulting, he specialized in high leverage situations that capitalized on his technological, entrepreneurial, and managerial background. His originality, depth, and quality continually bring him in contact with members of World Class organizations such as MIT, Tsinghua University, Du Pont, and Motorola. His consulting projects generally ran 6 to 24 months. His focus was on managerial processes to guide the implementation of technologically enabled Step Change and Game Change.

His consulting to Du Pont Nylon over a 5 year period was on: Step Change in Production Process Improvement, Game Change Business and Technical Strategies, Demand Activated Production, and Resource Allocation. Jim's other clients included American Express, AT&T, and Fiat. Consulted to them on Information Technology Strategies, Japanese Benchmarking, and Manufacturing Metrics.

At the MIT based firm, Pugh-Roberts Associates, he led Management of Technology consulting projects on: Corporate Venture Processes (Motorola), Managing Intellectual Property (Bell Laboratories), Strategic Technology Planning (Dun & Bradstreet), and Leveraging Information Technology (ICI).

Jim's consulting methods recognized in the Harvard Business Case "Step Change at Du Pont's Camden Plant," 1994, which was taught at the Harvard Business School (available upon request). He was cited by John Sculley in his book, Odyssey: From Pepsi to Apple, 1987, as inspiring his formulation of Second Wave versus Third Wave management paradigms (see table in the Chapter, "A Telephone Call").

• Entrepreneuring in China presented at Kauffman Foundation's Global Entrepreneurship Week at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts on November 19, 2008.
• Process Control: The Next Generation presented at the 1993 Du Pont/Honeywell DCS Users' Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 13, 1993.
• Renewal Patterns: Before and After Dominant Design presented at the Academy of Management's 49th Annual Conference in Washington, D. C., on August 15, 1989.
• The Evolving Role of Universities and Institutes in CAD/CAM presented at the CITIC/Computervision CAD/CAM Conference in Beijing, China, on October 15, 1985.
• Future Trends in Hardware and Open Systems presented at the CAMP '85 Conference in Berlin, Germany, on September 25, 1985.
• CAD Product Directions for User Planning presented by co-author Jean-Pierre Glachant at the 4th International MICAD Conference in Paris, France, on March 1, 1985.
• Future CAD Products presented at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 10th Design Automation Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 8, 1984.

• 2002- now for CHA Inc. as Chairman in Dearborn, MI

  Chaired a Beijing conference entitled Bridging the Cultural Gap - Key to Success. Presented Entrepreneuring in China at the Kauffman Foundation's Global Conference simulcast to over 300 colleges.
  Spent over five years supporting Intellectual Property litigation in USA's Federal District and Appeals Courts. Sold a US short-line railroad to a US publicly traded company.

• 1999-2001 for Global Data Technologies, Inc. as President in Beijing, China

  Developed software (with China ChangFeng, an aerospace company) for a Tokyo Stock Exchange financial internet portal.

• 1992-1998 for CHA, Inc. as President in Dover, NH

  Consulted on the management of technology to major corporations worldwide.

• 1989-1992 for Pugh-Roberts Associates, Inc. as Deputy Director in Cambridge, MA

  Consulted on the management of technology to major corporations worldwide.

• 1986-1988 for Denning Mobile Robotics, Inc. as Vice President of Engineering in Woburn, MA

  Directed the development of the first commercial robotic night watchman system.

• 1983-1986 forComputervision Corp. as Vice President of Technology
  1975-1978 for Computervision Corp. as Staff Consultant in Bedford, MA

  At this world leader in CAD/CAM and Fortune 500 Company, responsible for technology strategy, technology transfer, and consulting with major customers.
  

• 1978-1983 for Unidata Systems, Inc. as President and Founder in Newington, NH

  Managed the development of forms based tools for non-programmers. Grew to 60 people and achieved a public evaluation of $30,000,000 (NASDAQ Symbol: UDAT).

• 1971-1974 for Dialog Systems, Inc. (later, Verbex) as President and Founder in Cambridge, MA

  Managed the development of speech recognition technology which The IEEE Spectrum (Sept. 1981) assessed as the world's best.
  

• 1968-1970 for Sanders Associates, Inc. as Staff Mathematician in Nashua, NH

  Programmed a top secret, massively parallel computer for military reconnaissance and atomic energy use.
  

• 1966-1968 for MIT Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics as Research Engineer in Cambridge, MA

  Designed and implemented the operating system used in the U. S. Navy's Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles and the operating system for the Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator used to train the Astronauts.