Founder and Principal Director
James has over 30 years of strategic leadership in digital architecture/design, applied AI, and knowledge systems architecture. In the early 90's, James was Architect and Product Manager of the first intelligent agent for the Apple platform called Open Sesame!. As Senior Scientist at Charles River Analytics, he served as Principal Investigator and has more than 15 publications on the neural networks, expert systems, intelligent interfaces, agent architectures and eLearning. Later, he served as Director of R&D for KnowledgePlanet, Director of Development for MediaMap, and VP of Software Development & Consulting for Athenium Inc.

As Principal Director of Aminda LLC, he designed and developed the aSignals rule-based equity trading system, designed a patented web-based trading platform for Fidelity, enterprise knowledge systems for MassMutual, Goldman Sachs, Moody's, Morgan Stanley, Lazard and Deutsche Bank. His recent AI innovations include creating the symbolic multi-agent Digie personal AI for capturing and managing personal information through conversational AI, and integrating Digie with generative AI to enable DigieFaith personal divine conversations and personalized travel plans through DigieTravel.

James has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UMass Amherst, and in 1996 became a Candidate for Eng.D. at UMass Lowell with a focus on engineering leadership and artificial intelligence.