CTO of the 50,000 sq ft Brooklyn ICVFX studio: AI/XR build, 3X revenue, ABC News Oscars feature.
As CTO and Principal Lead Software Engineer at ZeroSpace (2022–2024), drove a $30M AI/XR production infrastructure build across the studio’s 50,000 sq ft Brooklyn facility — computer vision, volumetric search, ML-powered VFX and content-discovery systems, integrated end to end with the Unreal Engine pipeline.
The stage combines a fixed-install LED ICVFX volume, a Vicon motion-capture stage, head and full-body photogrammetry and a volumetric capture stage. Results over 18 months: 3× revenue, 3× team, 10× capacity.
The studio was the subject of a 10-minute ABC News feature during the 95th Academy Awards pre-show and red carpet broadcast, and ran live, unscripted demos for Fortune 100 CMOs, CTOs and CEOs — Meta, NVIDIA, Nike, HP, Netflix, Disney and HBO among them.
James continues as an Executive Partner at ZeroSpace on AI/XR strategy, partnerships and business development.
zerospace.co · Studio reel (NYC Creative AI livestream, Aug 2026)
