About the Author

James Barnett has been an application architect and adjunct lecturer in the Technology, Operations, and Information Management division at Babson College since 2011. Besides teaching, his responsibilities include designing, coding, and releasing tools and web sites for the college, working with Babson’s leaders to keep Babson at the forefront of the technology space. James’s team released the advanced discussion boards, the new Faculty Portal and Student Portal web sites, as well as other important initiatives for Babson. James has brought Drupal content management system expertise to Babson, a technology that accelerates the development of cutting-edge web platforms for community sites, web portals, and everything else the Web can provide.

James holds a master’s degree in Economics and Finance from Brandeis University, as well a BA from Brandeis University. His past work experiences in the technology space include positions at EMC, Fidelity, and IDG and work as a consultant managing all the software technology needs of a startup in Needham, Massachusetts for more than three years. As a technology consultant for many companies, he has been successful in providing programming, database and information management, and system administration expertise.

James’s 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.