James Smith is the inaugural digital humanities lead developer for the College of Liberal Art. As lead developer, he is spearheading programming efforts as well as providing tutorials, workshops, and other resources to faculty interested in digital humanities. James received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from TAMU in 2001. He has completed all but thesis for a creative writing M.A. in English. In his current position, James is an active Perl module developer and can be found most days on #moose and other venues.