Jim Downhower
President And Founder at SuccessVia
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJim Downhower is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over a decade of experience building and scaling software teams, SaaS products, and enterprise integrations across healthcare and life sciences. As President and Founder of SuccessVia and former VP/CTO roles at companies like Lokavant and Seer Healthcare, he combines hands-on engineering roots with strategic portfolio and enterprise architecture stewardship. He has repeatedly created and grown high-performing, regulated-software teams, delivering clinical trial systems (EDC/CTMS), automation that processed a quarter of company revenue, and integrations tied to large M&A efforts. Comfortable from low-level processor verification early in his career to modern Agile/CI toolchains, Jim blends deep technical breadth (Java, web stacks, CI/CD) with pragmatic business engagement to maximize IT ROI. He prefers solving thorny integration and workflow problems that unlock measurable business value, often by translating complex clinical and regulatory requirements into reliable, auditable software. Based in Cary, NC, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a track record of converting legacy systems and acquisitions into streamlined, productized platforms.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSE Computer Science and Engineering, MSE Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganUniversity of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (29)
angular-meteor10
angularjs10
perfect9
sqlite8
microsoft-sql-server8
angular8
sql8
javascript8
nodejs8
postgresql7
mariadb7
jsonb7
mysql7
meteor7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SuccessVia/successvia.github.io
Nov 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
jdownhower/java-test
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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