In today’s episode, Massimo is joined by James Adams. James has been an engineer and builder all of his life. James first learned to code when he was five years old. After graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, he studied Computational Mathematics at Arizona State University. He has been in IT professionally for 22 years. James spent half of my career developing large, distributed web applications, primarily in Java. After rising through the ranks as an engineer, architect, team lead and manager, he pivoted to full-time consulting and moved his focus to cloud infrastructure. The second half of his career has been spent building cloud-focused consulting companies. James has built two Premier AWS Partners (Slalom and Caylent), and is now building his own called Ackolyte Consulting, which launched in July of this year. Ackolyte is an all-in-on-AWS Advanced Tier consulting partner which runs in a regional remote plus travel model, with 100% US-based consultants.

Highlights from this interview include:

• How he learned how to let go of control and perfectionism and step into delegation and trust of his team
• His strategy for hiring and why he allows his team to interview the person that will be hired to manage them
• Tips for effective one on ones with team members
• The surprising policy he has implemented for his consultants and how it is driving more productivity
• How he has created a space that people feel comfortable asking for help

Connect with James:

https://www.ackolyte.com

@ifjamesthen - Personal handle on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

@AckolyteHQ - Company profile on Twitter

Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmadams

Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ackolyte

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