James Mcdermott
Corporate Officer & VP - Americas
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcdermott is a seasoned Quality Engineering and go-to-market leader with eight years of focused industry experience and a longer track record of scaling product and marketing efforts across software and reliability domains. Currently Corporate Officer & VP - Americas at PeakAvenue and principal of his own consulting firm, he helps companies strengthen FMEA, FTA, functional safety, and quality process improvements while also advising startups like Fundomation. He has repeatedly led North American operations for engineering-focused software vendors (PLATO, IQS, Isograph) and brings a rare blend of technical product fluency and commercial leadership. James pairs strategic GTM skills—developed through senior marketing and GM roles—with hands-on advisory experience in reliability engineering. Based in Ontario, he balances a professional focus on auditable, safety-critical quality practices with a personal passion for hockey, fishing and family life. A background in political science and corporate communications gives him an uncommon ability to translate complex technical risk into clear stakeholder-ready narratives.
8 years of coding experience
Honors Degree, Political Science and Government, Honors Degree, Political Science and Government at Western University
Github Skills (2)
visualize3
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
silent-j/EUROSAT_CNN-Land-Classifier
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 22 pushes in 3 days
silent-j/clickbait
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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