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James Brown

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James Brown

As Chief Experience Officer, James Brown leads JumpCloud‘s efforts in product strategy, user experience, and marketing. James is laser-focused on every customer touch point with JumpCloud and ensures that JumpCloud’s products meet its customers’ wants and needs, and provide real, measurable benefits. Mr. Brown joined JumpCloud after a successful 11-year stint at StillSecure. Mr. Brown, whose final role at StillSecure was CEO of the company, was responsible for a number of functional areas during his tenure including software engineering, architecture, product management, engineering management, and marketing. Prior to StillSecure, James held senior engineering roles at CareerWizard.net and Qwest Dex (now Dex One).

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USENIX LISA 2014 – DevOps grows in the enterprise

I just returned to frigid Boulder, CO from the USENIX LISA 2014 conference in sunny (not warm, but completely tolerable) Seattle, WA. For those unaware, LISA is the Large Infrastructure System Administration conference, which held its inaugural conference in 1986. A lot has changed in the past 28 years, but LISA continues to demonstrate (and […]

Nov 17, 2014 · 3 min

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Waterfall and Agile, the effect of automation and continuous integration

Agile’s A Silly Idea? I was a young developer working at a large enterprise when I first heard about some of the principles that later became part of the Agile process back in the mid- to late-90s. I was skeptical about what I heard, to say the least. After all, what we today call waterfall […]

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My Journey to the Land of DevOps

Welcome to my first installment in a series where I talk about my long transition as an engineer, first from a very traditional waterfall development methodology into a more Agile process, and finally into a true DevOps organization at my current gig at JumpCloud. Who Am I? First, a little background on me. I’m (almost) […]

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