James Barnett is an application architect and adjunct Professor in the Tech. Ops. & Information Management Division at Babson College. Besides teaching, his responsibilities include designing, coding, and releasing tools and websites for the college, working with Babson s leaders to keep Babson at the forefront of the technology space. In the last two years at Babson, James team has released the advanced discussion boards, the new Faculty Portal and Student Portal websites, as well as other important initiatives for Babson. James has brought Drupal Content Management System expertise to Babson a technology which accelerates development of cutting edge web platforms for community sites, web portals, and everything else the web can provide.James holds a Masters in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University, and as well a BA from Brandeis University. Past work experiences in the technology space include positions at: EMC, Fidelity, IDG, work as a consultant managing all the software technology needs of a startup out of Needham for over 3 years. As a technology consultant for many companies, he found success providing programming, database and information management, and system administration expertise.James areas of expertise include: PHP, MYSQL, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix/Linux, shell scripting, apache, JAVA, PERL, XSLT, JSON, XML, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, network operations skills, information management, load balancers, and front- and back-end web work.