Jim Vinson

About Jim Vinson

Forward Deployed / Applied AI. AI/ML Technical Program Manager.

Forward Deployed / Applied AI practitioner and AI/ML technical program manager with 10+ years delivering complex technical programs, including engagements at Google and Meta, and $50M+ in capital programs across Google, Meta, FORTÉ, and NTT. I build and deploy production LLM systems (RAG, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation frameworks), and I design standardized systems that let variable-capability teams, human or AI, produce consistent, high-quality output at scale.

On Google's Project Starline (now Google Beam), contracted via Electrosonic, I ran technical program management across a 100+ station hardware fleet, owning rollout plans and cross-functional tiger teams.

At Meta's XR Hub, contracted via TEKsystems, I directed programs that integrated VR-enabled CAD reviews, cutting design iteration cycles by 75%.

At FORTÉ, I delivered $25M+ in AV/IT capital projects for NASA and Fortune 500 clients, designing global room standards and deployment protocols that enabled distributed engineering teams to deliver consistent quality across sites.

Credentials

  • PMP - Project Management Professional (PMI)
  • PMI-CPMAI - Certified Professional in Managing AI/ML Projects
  • AIPM - AI-Driven Project Manager (APMG International)
  • AWS - Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
  • CTS - Certified Technology Specialist (AVIXA)
  • ANP - Audiovisual Network Professional (AVIXA)

Education

  • MBA - Pepperdine University, Graziadio School of Business and Management
  • BA - University of Southern California

AI & LLM

Context Engineering Prompt Architecture RAG Architecture Multi-Model Orchestration Multi-Agent Systems Agentic Workflows Tool Use Structured Outputs Embeddings & Fine-Tuning LLM Evaluation MCP (Model Context Protocol) AI Governance Vector Databases Claude API OpenAI API Gemini API

Development

Python TypeScript Astro Astro Content Collections SvelteKit Cloudflare Workers/Pages Workers AI D1 / R2 / Vectorize Wrangler Serverless Edge Computing Vercel Drizzle ORM API Design CI/CD MCP Servers Tailwind CSS

Program Management

Technical Program Management Forward Deployed / Applied AI Delivery Solutions Engineering Pilot-to-Production AI Product Management Capital Projects & Infrastructure Cross-Functional Leadership Vendor & Contract Management Stakeholder Management Risk Assessment PRD Authoring Roadmap Planning Agile / Scrum Technical Documentation

Domain Knowledge

AI-Enabled Team Leadership Operational AI Smart Workplace Design On-Device AI Infrastructure Architecture AV/IT Systems EdTech / Accessibility Corpus Linguistics Claude Managed Agents