EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MID-PACIFIC ICT (MPICT) CENTER
 James
B. Jones is Executive Director of the Mid-Pacific ICT Center,
established in October 2008 with a $3 million Advanced
Technological Education grant from the National Science
Foundation.
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) is an
umbrella term, widely used outside the U.S. and in the U.N.,
to encompass all rapidly emerging, evolving and converging
computer, software, networking, telecommunications, Internet,
programming and information systems technologies.
MPICT’s mission is to coordinate, promote and improve ICT
education, with an emphasis on 2-year colleges, in northern
California, northern Nevada, southern Oregon, Hawaii and the
Pacific Territories.
Mr. Jones began his career in civil litigation support, in
part, to protect old-growth redwoods in northern California.
He was a manager in an Australian based company that provided
contract programmers to support Bay Area enterprises, and he
worked for years as a consultant to Bay Area enterprises, like
George Lucas’ companies, in optimizing telecommunications
operations.
As Financial Planning Manager for SBC/Pacific Bell, James
developed complex financial plans and analyzed financial
impacts of regulatory decisions for all wire-line operations
in California and Nevada, including financial impacts of FCC
conditions on SBC’s Ameritech merger, which became financial
plan overlays for SBC 13 state operations. As Associate
Director of Strategic Marketing at SBC, he developed, approved
and obtained regulatory acceptance for custom contracts,
including those for all Internet Service Providers and the
Federal government in California. For example, he developed
the agreement for SBC’s first OC-192 (10Gbps) SONET service in
California - and for the Government Emergency
Telecommunications Service (GETS), which provides priority
access to telecommunications services for government and
emergency teams in disasters, like earthquakes.
Mr. Jones was Strategic Marketing Manager at Yipes
Communications, developing award winning services and the
business development and approval model for all sales. Yipes
pioneered the use of Metro Ethernet technology to overcome
bandwidth bottlenecks in first mile/last mile access networks.
His most recent consulting business involved optical
communications technology training (for example, to Cisco
Systems Sales Engineers and Cisco Powered Network Partners
worldwide). His implementation projects included managing the
relationships with the City of San Francisco that produced
City College of San Francisco’s 36 mile optical fiber ring,
connecting its major campuses and a major carrier facility
with virtually unlimited bandwidth, and managing CCSF’s
million dollar replacement of Ethernet equipment connecting
10,000 ports of VoIP phones, computers and other network
equipment.
Mr. Jones has a BA degree in German/Liberal Arts from
Davidson College and an MBA from the University of Hawaii. He
speaks German and Danish and is passionate about ICT and ICT
education, the outdoors, his family, cultural perspectives and
human development and ideals.
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