Jim Myrick

About Jim Myrick

Jim Myrick is a versatile professional with a diverse skill set, an inventor, serial entrepreneur, and open innovation co-creator. An angel investor, an LP in the Blitzscaling AI fund and mentor. Jim is a founding partner of SeriousFun and Neue Labs, a no-code platform for hardware based in Malmo, Sweden. He\'s a member of Studio 45, a professional hardware-making lab, and at Shack 15. He is Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Bytez a San Francisco based AI tools and technology platform that powers the AI revolution. Jim recently held residencies at Autodesk Pier 9, EiR RocketSpace, EiR Aproe, and EiR Flex. Among the first cohort of 25 startups at Flex Lab IV in Milpitas. Organizer of the Corporate Innovation Outpost Silicon Valley Meetup group.Throughout his career, Jim has pioneered industries centered around high-performance computer graphics software, cutting edge technology, and networked infrastructure. He\'s recognized as a CAD/CAM trailblazer, having worked at the esteemed Xerox Color Graphics Lab in Rochester, NY, and Cambridge University, UK. Jim\'s leadership has led to a series of award-winning and best-selling user experiences featuring iconic brands like Mickey Mouse, Snoopy, Hello Kitty, and more. He\'s considered a founding figure in children\'s Edutainment, with the release of a CD-ROM title based on Snoopy and the PEANUTS gang in 1991. Jim also produced a best-selling generative art music game, The Groove Thing, in 1993.The founder of Xcelerator Incubators in Stockholm, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Jim\'s credits as an Executive Producer include the Clio-winning Amnesty.excite.com website, Amnesty International\'s 20th-anniversary concert, BBC radio shows, international broadcast television specials, shot in Paris in 1998. He also produced conferences for Mac Services in the 90s, The Connected Car, Women in Wearables, The Sensor Fusion Fashion Show, and the Now Moment Conference. Jim holds the LinkedIn member number 376,967.His specialties encompass rapid prototyping, computational photography, gamification, AI at the edge, new product innovation and introduction, character licensing, human interface-experience design, multimedia authoring tools, telecommunications, branding, marketing, international business, computer graphics, high-end color electronic publishing, and CAD/CAM.

Experience

1. Resident

   Autodesk

   Oct 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Open Innovation at one of the most advanced hardware prototyping facilities in the world on Pier 9

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  BA, Art and Design-Computer Science

  1976 — 1978

Skills

• Licensing
• Iphone
• Game Design
• International Business
• User Interface Design
• Mobile Internet
• Agile
• Strategy
• Computer Graphics
• E-Commerce
• Mobile Applications
• Interactive Media
• Online Gaming
• New Media
• Experience Design
• Animation
• Strategic Partnerships
• Digital Distribution
• Brand Licensing
• Casual Games
• Digital Media
• Viral Marketing
• Innovation
• Corporate Management
• Mobile Content
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• User Experience
• Content Strategy
• Marketing Strategy
• Telecommunications
• Software Development
• Monetization
• Interactive Entertainment
• Interactive Tv
• Mobile Devices
• Social Games
• Business Development
• Edutainment
• Entrepreneurship