Jim has been the Director of the Museum on Main since September 2009. His career in small and medium sized museums has taken me across the country including stints in Morristown, New Jersey, Pueblo, Colorado, Washington DC (for the National Trust for Historic Preservation), Denver, Colorado (at the Molly Brown House Museum), Yucca Valley, California, Hayward, (at the Hayward Area Historical Society & Museum) and in Oakland (at the Dunsmuir Hellman Historic Estate). He holds a BA in History and Business Administration from Houghton College in Houghton, NY about an hour and a half south of his native Rochester. He is a graduate of the 2011 Leadership Pleasanton program, Chair of the Chamber's Foundation Board and President of the Pleasanton Downtown Association.