Recently co-founded Figure Five LLC, a web and software development firm based in Richmond. We have begun development on the company website, and it should be up and running by the end of the year.

I recently attended the 2009 BEA Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas to accept the "Best of Festival" award for my project, The Beginner's Interactive Guide to Trumpet. I spent some time with some video production students and learned some of the ins and outs of production and editing. The whole trip was an excellent opportunity and a great honor, to say the least.

Mike Weiss had this to say: "The Goddard Sea Ventures SCUBA Club web site had become very out-dated. I knew that Jim was talented and energetic, so I asked him to give our web site www.goddardscuba.com a complete make-over. Jim put his creative talents to use, and in a short period of time we had a professional web site that is now useful to our members and surfers. Look for yourself! Jim was extremely responsive and was full of useful ideas. We could not be more pleased with our new web site!"