Jim is CTO at MovieLabs, a technology joint venture of five major Hollywood studios. At MovieLabs, Jim leads technical work on the 2030 Vision for media creation in the cloud and has driven industry initiatives for the studios including high dynamic range video in worldwide video standards. Jim also led the design and implementation of the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), for which he received an Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy.

Prior to MovieLabs, Jim was chief software architect at Liberate Technologies, where he developed an early platform for delivering Internet applications to televisions. Before that he worked at Silicon Graphics, developing real-time 3D systems for VR, location-based entertainment, and visual simulation. He's also consulted extensively, including for Xerox PARC and for NEC Research Labs, where he successfully raised TSA and venture funding for an AI video recognition spin off.

Jim holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford and a B.A. in Physics and Math from Washington University.