About
The Computer Programmer/Administrator
James has an iPhone company, Yummy Yellow, LLC, go buy some of his apps and leave 5 star reviews!
James immensely enjoys working with computers. His main goal is to use computers to do fun, interesting, and useful things. He especially enjoys finding and fixing problems and making things more efficient. He likes to pretend that he is solving puzzles or being a computer private detective. He loves learning new computer technologies and is drawn particularly to creative OS manipulation, programming, games, graphics, security, and multimedia (including music, graphic art, photography, and video).
James is a Computer Professional at the University of Utah's Student Computing Labs. His main duty is the deployment of Mac OS X. His responsibilities include the OS customizations, scripts, Radmind deployment, and security of the Mac OS X lab and kiosk computers supported by SCL. He has been working at the U since he received his Bachelor degree in 1999. The main thing he has built at the University of Utah is called Xhooks.
He contributes code, articles, documentation, classes, and presentations to the Mac OS X higher education and enterprise community through the University of Utah's Mac Managers group, and presenting at conferences including the 2003 and 2004 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences and the 2005 World Wide Developers Conference, and the 2010 MacTech Conference.
Web Design & Hosting
James likes to make simple websites for fun (well, "profit", but mostly for fun). James does the code work but plays with graphic design a little. Here are examples of 2 sites that he worked on. Mark Reynolds did the graphics for the Rosenzweig site (Leah Donaldson did version 2) and it is hosted by Scott Reynolds. Chems Touati did the graphics for the SCL streaming site (which has also been replaced by a newer version). James also wrote the code for the custom Magnolia templates at www.macos.utah.edu. James also setup DotNetNuke for Gryphon Airlines.
The Musician
B.M. 1999, University of Utah.
James studied Clarinet and got a degree in music composition at the University of Utah.
James has performed in many groups: high school Jazz Band, A'cappella, Barbershop, the University of Utah's Marching Band and Wind Symphony, the Salt Lake Community College Grand Theatre, the Utah Symphony Chorus, and many other small groups. He taught sight singing as a graduate student. He has conducted adult and childrens choirs for over 10 years. He is currently a member of the Salt Lake Symphonic Choir.