Jim Vinson

About Jim Vinson

Technical Program Manager. AI Infrastructure and Fleet Deployment.

Technical program manager for AI infrastructure and fleet deployment, with 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 roughly 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 LLM Evaluation MCP (Model Context Protocol) AI Governance Vector Databases Claude API OpenAI API Gemini API

Development

Python TypeScript Bun Astro Astro Content Collections Next.js Cloudflare Workers/Pages Cloudflare D1 Wrangler Serverless Edge Computing Vercel Firebase / Firestore Qdrant Neon Postgres pydantic API Design CI/CD GitHub Actions MCP Servers Tailwind CSS

Program Management

Technical Program Management AI Infrastructure & Fleet Deployment 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