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An Axeda co-founder, Jim Hansen is the head architect for Axeda® ServiceLink, the industry's leading Internet-based remote service software. In his role, he sets the direction of the product design and functionality for everything from the embedded cross-platform agents to the J2EE application server. Jim is also the recipient of seven USPTO patents related to the Axeda ServiceLink product. Jim joined Axeda ten years ago from FactorySoft, where he was principal software architect, providing technical direction for the company's OPC technology initiative. While there, he created the most widely used OPC toolkit for standards-based factory automation. With 23 years of experience in software and hardware design, Jim has designed a multitude of hardware interfaces and software data acquisition and control systems on Windows and Linux, as well as VxWorks and other embedded kernels. Previously, Jim was senior software architect for an industrial automation software company, where he led the development of a graphical configurator for Windows NT and contributed to the design of other 32-bit products. Jim also headed the design at Dynamic Solutions and Waters Corporation for chromatography software and data acquisition boards. At Waters Corporation, he received the highest innovation award given by the company. Early in his engineering career at Teledyne, Jim designed a NASA simulator and various avionics systems. Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from UCLA and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Northridge.