James E. McKinney
Practice Manager, PLM Leadership
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Jim McKinney has over 28 years of experience helping people adopt and optimise new technologies. He has held positions in PLM system support, product marketing, and education; engineering design implementation; competitive analysis; consulting; and more. At CIMdata, Mr. McKinney delivers PLM certificate classes throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. He also works with individual companies to provide customized support for their PLM initiatives.
Prior to joining CIMdata, Mr. McKinney was a competitive analyst for Dassault Systèmes and he worked for IBM, where he was in charge of all product marketing for digital manufacturing (DELMIA), sophisticated visualization solutions (3DVIA), and product data management (ENOVIA). He has been manager for CAD/CAM PLM systems at Hobart, president of CAD Professionals, and Lead CAD Support Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation’s CAD/CAM Technology Center.
Mr. McKinney holds a BS in Design Engineering Technology, with a minor in Chinese, from Brigham Young University.
