James C. Jamison II, PhDTIM, MSTIM, BSIT, MCSE, CIW

Senior IT Specialist, modernization strategist, and systems architect.

Technology & Innovation Management · Specializing in Information Systems

Professional Summary

Technology & Innovation Management specialist with experience leading modernization, migration, and automation initiatives in complex enterprise environments. Operates at the intersection of systems architecture, service delivery, and structured process improvement.

Blends hands-on technical work with strategic planning, bringing a research-informed perspective grounded in a PhD in Technology & Innovation Management. Focus areas include automation, macro development, service catalog design, and dashboard-driven decision support.

Experience

Senior IT Specialist / Modernization Lead

Enterprise End-User Operations · Recent Years

  • Led Windows platform modernization efforts across distributed environments.
  • Designed and maintained automation for Active Directory, inventory, and device reporting.
  • Collaborated with supervisors and technicians to align tools with operational and strategic goals.

IT Management & Systems Roles

Progressive Leadership Positions

  • Managed teams responsible for desktop, application, and peripheral support.
  • Implemented tracking mechanisms for tickets, workloads, and project milestones.
  • Built custom scripts and dashboards to surface actionable insights from operational data.

Military & Early Technical Experience

Foundational Service & Training

  • Developed disciplined approaches to troubleshooting, escalation, and documentation.
  • Transitioned skills into civilian technical roles focused on infrastructure and support.

Education

  • PhD in Technology & Innovation Management
  • MS in Technology & Innovation Management
  • BS in Information Technology

Certifications

  • MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
  • CIW – Certified Internet Webmaster

Core Skills & Focus Areas

Work emphasizes practical automation, modernization roadmap design, and documentation that can be reused across projects and organizations.

Technical & Strategic Skills

  • Automation & Macro Development
  • Windows & Endpoint Modernization
  • Directory & Identity Governance
  • Service Catalog & Process Design
  • Dashboarding & Reporting
  • Creative & Multimedia Workflows

Spectra Innovative Systems dba

Spectra Innovative Systems is a personal venture focused on building reusable tools, frameworks, and products that emerge from real-world experience in IT, automation, and creative technology. Macro Builder is one of several products under development.

Macro Builder

Header-aware Excel automation framework that generates macros from live dataset structures, exports .bas modules, and supports documentation for each automation.

Planning & Control Dashboards

Visual and data-driven dashboards that capture modernization progress, workloads, and transition planning in a consumable format.

Spectra Multimedia Studio

Creative tooling for audio routing, loop design, and patch planning to support digital audio workstations and multimedia projects.

Contact

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