James has been involved in one way or another with the FreePBX project for the past 10 years. He is an open source evangelist promoting and contributing time and code to various open source projects over the years. Prior to working with FreePBX, he worked in traditional telephony for 6 years installing and maintaining SMB and enterprise telephony networks.  For 8 years James worked as the community manager for a major hardware vendor.  In 2014 James started with the FreePBX team as the community manager with a focus on improving both user and developer project documentation and building a more engaged community as well as strengthening contributions to the FreePBX ecosystem. Over the last year, he has also joined the development team and has worked on the FreePBX 13 facelift, 14 Calendar integration, 15 Backup and Filestore module and on squashing some long standing bugs. He has a passion for technology and the open source community as a whole.