After joining Sun Labs in 1988, he has worked as a manager, senior manager and individual contributor delivering client-server telephony platforms, Solaris integration of speech technology, high availability platforms, the Java Telephony API and the SunTone Service Provider Certification program. Jim's current engagements are in developing an Industrial Java strategy and creating reference architectures for RFID and Auto-ID solutions. He was trained in linguistics and acoustic phonetics at UC Berkeley.