Product at Twitter
San Francisco, California
Investor / Advisor
Investor / Advisor
2007 to 2016
San Francisco Bay Area
No on 8 - Equality for All
Product Manager, Internet Campaign
September 2008 to November 2008
Yahoo
Senior Director of Product Management, Flurry Analytics & Yahoo App Publishing
2014 to 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
Wormhole Games
COO & Co-Founder
2012 to 2014
San Francisco Bay Area
Funzio
Senior Producer -> Director of Product
2012 to 2012
San Francisco Bay Area
Product Manager
December 2006 to August 2010
Apple
Product Planner
October 2004 to September 2005
Sun Microsystems, Inc
Program Manager
January 2004 to October 2004
Sun Microsystems, Inc
Software Engineer
June 2000 to January 2004
Senior Director of Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area
What company does James Kelm work for?
James Kelm works for Investor / Advisor
What is James Kelm's role at Investor / Advisor?
James Kelm is Investor / Advisor
What industry does James Kelm work in?
James Kelm works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are James Kelm's colleagues?
James Kelm's colleagues are Apoorv sharma, Rajesh Pantula, Lu Gao, Marcus Jefferson, Swapnesh Gandhi, Anton Panasenko, Majid Janzamin, Yan Xia, Alex Reece, and Win Wang
💼 Past Experience
The experiences of James Kelm. 1. Product Manager, Internet Campaign at No on 8 - Equality for All from September 2008 to November 2008 (3 months). 2. Senior Director of Product Management, Flurry Analytics & Yahoo App Publishing at Yahoo from 2014 to 2017 (3 years) in San Francisco Bay Area. 3. COO & Co-Founder at Wormhole Games from 2012 to 2014 (2 years) in San Francisco Bay Area. 4. Senior Producer -> Director of Product at Funzio from 2012 to 2012 (less than a year) in San Francisco Bay Area. 5. Product Manager at Google from December 2006 to August 2010 (3 years 9 months). 6. Product Planner at Apple from October 2004 to September 2005 (1 year). 7. Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc from June 2000 to January 2004 (3 years 8 months). 8. Senior Director of Product Management at Twitter in San Francisco Bay Area.
🎓 Education
James Kelm has a background in Computer Engineering and Economics from the University of Massachusetts, where he studied with Professor David Siegel. After completing his undergraduate career, he worked for Deutsche Bank in Europe and then for Merrill Lynch in the United States, before joining Columbia University as a graduate student in 2005.In his previous work experience, James Kelm has focused on data analysis and software development for the financial industry. While he has a strong interest in research and in working on innovative projects, he also knows how to effectively communicate with clients and colleagues, and he is confident that his skills as a research scientist will be valuable in any future career development.Among his proudest achievements as a graduate student at Columbia University, James Kelm is most proud of developing a novel software developmentmethodology which he calls "garbage collection". This methodology, he says, is effective and easier to use than existing algorithms and allows developers to efficiently garbage collect legacy code while still ensuring backwards compatibility.James Kelm is now a research scientist at Google, and his current work focuses on developing new ways of understanding and using machine learning in the financial industry. He believes that this approach canVI be helpful in prediction and portfolio management, and he is also working on a project which focuses on the optimization of financial simulation models.Anyfuture career development for James Kelm will require him to continue to develop his research skills and to learn new ways of thinking about problem solutions. He is confident that he has the capacities and the drive to develop a successful career in research, and he has no hesitation in turning his talents to the financial industry should the opportunity arise.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
James Kelm has 10 years of experience as a software engineer and product manager, 8 of which were at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he was operation manager for a software engineering team that developed Sun's Java SE 6 language platform. He has also worked at Twitter, where he was a product manager for the company's online advertising product, No on 8 - Equality for All. From September 2008 to November 2008, he was also a senior director of product management for Flurry Analytics & Yahoo App Publishing at Yahoo. From 2014 to 2017, he was COO & Co-Founder at Wormhole Games. Prior to that, he was a senior producer at Funzio, responsible for product planning and development at the company. At Google, he was a product manager for the Google Earth product. He has a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. in business from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was an adjunct professor.
Extraversion (E), Intuition (N), Feeling (F), Judging (J)
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