User:Bill James

The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.

Bill was born in 1969 and is a husband and father of two. Bill graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science. Since graduating in 1991, Bill has had several jobs including working on the Star Wars anti-ballistic missile system simulators, writing video games for Sega Genesis and Windows-based PC's, including a 4-year stint on the EverQuest development team. Bill has recently moved over to IT at Qualcomm, developing web-based applications for internal and external use. His outside-of-work interests include sports (NFL and MLB), poker, video games (MMORPGs), and cooking.

Career

Bill started working at SAIC right after college, working on a Star Wars SDI simulation, but soon moved to games. He worked at BlueSky Software first, helping develop the World Series Baseball games for the Genesis, as well as several unreleased baseball games for the Sony Playstation. Bill left BlueSky in 2000, moving to Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), where he worked on the, now defunct, Java games division for a year, producing 2 game development kits and several titles including Empyrean, St. Tropez, and No Dice. Transferring to the EverQuest (EQ) development team just after the release of the Shadows of Luclin expansion, Bill spent 4 years on this team, first working on the internationalization of EQ, then releasing 7 new expansions. Looking for something new, Bill transferred to another team at SOE, but soon decided a bigger change was needed. Bill now works at Qualcomm, developing web apps in Java, JSP, etc. for internal and external use.