James H. Conklin is the Director of Operations of CCRi.  His responsibilities include business development, project management, and hiring.  Mr. Conklin has designed, developed, and tested spatial incident prediction and analysis systems for the US Army, Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, Virginia State Police, Department of Homeland Security, and the US Navy.  Mr. Conklin has a Masters Degree in Systems and Information Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Conklin's has focused his career on transitioning research based technologies into operational systems.  Through close work with soldiers and police officers, he has helped identify new requirements for research and development and subsequently implemented operational tools in support of their needs.  Mr. Conklin's experience spans from primary research of new analysis techniques to implementing systems for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.  His work has taken him as far as Baghdad, Iraq to support the deployment, training, and operation of predictive tools for the U.S. Army.

Prior to working at CCRi, Mr. Conklin was a Research Scientist on the faculty of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and  a Member of the Technical Staff at The Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly, VA.  At the Aerospace Corporation, he developed and supported long range planning effort for future satellite ground systems and at the University of Virginia, he sought opportunities to transition research results into tools.