James Mackin is a U.S. Army Veteran who served a tour in Iraq during OIF III as an Electronics/Armament Technician on the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter. Upon returning from Iraq, James completed his degree in Computer Information Systems at the University of North Florida. He has also completed half of the curriculum necessary to complete his Master of Science Degree in Software Engineering at the University of North Florida. He has spent the last 9 years in the Software Engineering field. Some of the technologies that James works with on a regular basis include ASP.NET, MVC, C#, SQL Server,Windows Azure, WCF, JQuery, Javascript, AngularJS, mongodb. His experience also includes a background in writing windows forms applications in .NET. James is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and enjoys spending time doing research through the ACM.