Jim leads development and deployment of database and infrastructure technology at Sonopia. He comes to Sonopia from SurfKitchen where he headed up product strategy and global alliances. Before SurfKitchen, Jim was CTO at WinWin Technologies, building a CRM and advertising ASP around a real-time profiling engine that hosted over 300 million data points across 35 million consumers and supported over 1 million ad-serving transactions per day. Before WinWin, Jim served as COO of Fairgain, which was merged with Jatak. Jim held the role of VP Business Management at Symbian during the company's fastest growth period. He came to Symbian from Oracle, where he was managing principal and practice director for technical architecture. Jim began his technical career in the early 1980s at Kmart where he deployed the first distributed Unix systems into over 2,200 store locations and was responsible for international systems, R&D and strategic planning at various times. He also spent several years at GM/EDS implementing plant floor automation systems.