Right after high school, James, enlisted in the Navy for 6 years and was stationed on the U.S.S. Enterprise as a Reactor Operator/Electronics Technician during the tail end of Desert Storm.
Following the military, he has graduated with honors from the Herzing College of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems and an A.S. in Computer Networking Technologies, as well later on becoming a Certified Usability Analyst from Human Factors International.
Currently, he is working as web standards based developer dealing with such issues as Semantics, Separation of Layers, and Validation, and is involved with Accessibility, Usability, and Web Standards communities.
He has achieved a Brown Belt in Shaolin Kempo Karate in the Villari's system, and his style is strongly influenced by Tai-Chi and Shaolin Chin na.