James Sears
Partner at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames N. Sears is a partner and co-founder of Cousins & Sears, a creative technology studio in New York, with 16+ years building hardware-software experiences that fuse data visualization, interactive installations, and applied design. Trained as an electrical engineer and an NYU ITP graduate, he has delivered work for TED, SIGGRAPH, MoMA, Wired NextFest and clients ranging from Microsoft and Hearst to the Department of Homeland Security, bringing both artistic sensibility and engineering rigor to commercial and cultural projects. His practice spans microcontroller-based hardware, physics-driven OpenGL/Processing visuals, and web/mobile applications—often prototyping novel data pipelines and scraping tools to inform visual storytelling. A longtime collaborator and occasional educator, he taught data visualization frameworks at NYU while maintaining a sharp focus on manufacturable, production-ready systems that perform in real-world conditions.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, Interactive Telecommuncations Program, MPS, Interactive Telecommuncations Program at New York UniversityBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (86)
custom-component10
android-database10
database9
xiaomi9
ibeacon9
inode9
scales9
fullscreen9
ruuvitag9
arduino-library8
home-assistant8
c-library8
wifi8
bluetooth-low-energy8
orm8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
relevante/ibeacon-swift-tutorial
Jul 2014 - May 2015
A Swift-based tutorial for getting started with iBeacon development on iOS 7/8
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 months
ibeaconiosswift
relevante/TeslaBMSV2
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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