Jim Childress has more than thirty years of diverse technical leadership spanning several global companies including NBC Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, PacifiCare Health Systems (now United Health), Beachbody, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman.
Jim has structured and led the recovery of nearly 20 distressed programs, architected PMOs and performed hands on management of 7 post merger integrations including the GE / Comcast carve out of NBC Universal, performed full lifecycle program leadership of numerous complex initiatives, and has collaborated with countless teams on matters related to processes optimization.
He has served in Interim Operations and Technology Leadership roles for organizations. Jim has also led and played key roles in several startups.
Jim holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from UCLA Anderson School of Management as well as a Master of Science (MS) Degree in Systems Architecture & Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), and a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
“Technology today is a race between man striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof IT systems, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
