James Stout is a Lead AI Solution Architect with two decades of marketing technology experience and over a decade in hands-on product and presales leadership. He specializes in turning real enterprise workflows into production-ready AI agents and presales demos that drive adoption and revenue across financial services, media, insurance, and consumer goods. At Optimizely he has unified demo messaging, influenced personalization roadmaps, and built reusable presales tooling to accelerate evaluations. He blends technical depth (full-stack CMS and analytics roots) with enablement strategy, having led North American training, certifications, and partner programs. Known for grounding AI proofs-of-concept in actual site analytics and team processes, he consistently delivers bespoke automations—like campaign brief generators and compliance validators—before deals close. Based in the Charleston-Huntington area, he’s an early adopter of emerging tech trends, from AI to electric vehicles, and favors pragmatic solutions that scale in enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Morehead State University
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James Stout - Director Of Enablement at Optimizely