James Reynolds

Senior Systems Administrator, College of Science

James began using computers back in the Atari 400 and Commodore 64 days. James earned a Bachelor of Music in 1999 from the University of Utah and transitioned from grad student and TA to managing Mac OS 9 computers at the College of Fine Arts for a year and then at the Marriott Library for 14 years. In the early 2000s, he was part of the MacOSXLabs and MacEnterprise groups that helped make Mac OS X easier to mass deploy and manage. He has spoken at several conferences, including Apple's WWDC 2005, about things like scripting and deployment methods. He currently is at the College of Science and is embedded in the School of Biological Sciences. He manages about 150 Mac systems using Jamf, a few ESXi servers, and Linux VMs. He presents at the U of U Mac Admins meetings and since 2023 has been serving on the U of U IT Professionals Board. Since September 2022, the release of Stable Diffusion, James has been spending all of his free time learning and presenting on AI.