Jim is currently the Vice President of Information Technology at Protective Industrial Products. He has spent the last 30 years in various Information Technology roles. He started his career as a software developer for IBM, and then as a database administrator for a small consulting start-up. He worked for General Electric in Schenectady for ten years, starting as a team leader, and worked his way up to Chief Technology Officer for GE’s Power & Water division. Jim was CIO at Latham Pools where he ran both application development and infrastructure support for North America’s largest pool manufacturer.

Jim holds an executive MBA from the Lally School at Rensselaer, a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from SUNY’s College of Technology, and an associate’s degree from Hudson Valley Community College in data processing.