Myself

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Jim Boston
Interested in contract (1099) work.
Willing to work 5-50 hours a week on projects and tasks
What can I offer?

• Project Management & System Design

→ Gained extensive technical knowledge in my years as lead designer for coordinating and implementing small subsystems

→ That eventually lead to entire technology food chains in broadcast facilities.

→ Was accountable for documenting the resulting workflows so that operations could effectively use the facility. This involved coordinating cross-functional response and communications between engineering, operations, support, news, traffic, and sales departments.

→ Proficient in an assortment of technical areas with the right collaboration experience to speak the language of engineers, project managers, product managers, marketing, and sales personnel.

→ Know how to support all the stakeholders.

→ Good at examining subjects from an individual parts aspect, or holistically, if required, while triaging problems and finding solutions.

→ Well versed in the project management process, to minimize effort and maximize profit.

→ Comfortable talking before tough and demanding groups to deliver information in both verbal and written forms.

→ Good at examining subjects from an individual parts aspect, or holistically, if required, while triaging problems and finding solutions.

• While not a true coder:

→ Write code for Excel in VBA.

→ All my websites were written by me using only HTML, CSS, and Javascript

• Writer

→ I began my career as a formally trained electrical engineer, and I gained valuable experience taking the technical details and turning them into articulate communications.

→ Have extensive knowledge and experience with both the technical and the analytical sides of technical writing: from the OSI stack, to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and being able to disseminate knowledge effectively using proper articles, predicates, conjunctions, and prepositions.

→ Writing career started while working on a project for Sony where I developed a method to quickly determine the absolute robustness of a serial digital signal.That led to papers, presentations and a simple tester that eliminated expensive test equipment.

→ It was at this point that I became a regular contributor to "Broadcast Engineering" magazine, which led to writing a book for McGraw-Hill, "The DTV Survival Guide," which addressed the transition from analog facilities to digital facilities in broadcasting.

→ Co-wrote two editions of the book "TV on Wheels, the story of remote television production." This book, the second edition is ten years old, is still used as a textbook in a few colleges

→ Currently, I am finishing up a two book series, "To No One in Particular: The technological Hisotry of Broadcasting."