Jim is the Senior Vice President of Technology at the Newseum in Washington, DC. He oversees the installation and maintenance of all technologies in the museum, including live broadcasts exhibits.
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>> Senior VP of Technology at the Newseum. Well I used to laughingly tell people that if it plugs into the wall ultimately I have some responsibility for it and the fact is that's very true because all of the computer support, all of the museum technology, we run an extensive broadcast operation. That all falls under the technology group so there's a lot of maintenance that goes on a day-to-day basis, I keep involved with that. I keep involved with things as simple as our daily front pages exhibit and all the programming and automation processes that go in behind what makes that happen every day. It can as simple as ordering toners for large-format printers or making sure they're here. I don't personally order them all the way up to a fleet of photocopying machines for the building that can be $8 million's worth of gear, so a lot of stuff goes on here. It's not at all a traditional business environment. It's, within the walls of this building there's entertainment, there's hospitality, there's food service, there is residential. We had a pretty extensive list of things that we wanted in this building and we pretty much got them all. Well we are also a full-service broadcast production facility. Oftentimes we'll have as many as three different shows going on in this building at one time. There are days we start at 3 o'clock in the morning. Now do I always show up at 3? No, but I do quite often because it's what I've done all my life. So the reality is it can go from very early in the morning until late at night.
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