Listen to Noomii's interview with James Thomas III

About Me

Mr. Thomas is an accomplished business executive with substantial experience at varied companies and organizations. He is a presenter, guest panelist, and keynote speaker on numerous human resources, career coaching, and job transition topics. His career as a strategic and innovative HR executive has supported the growth and success of notable companies and organizations across diverse industries.

Currently, he is Founder and President of J. E. Thomas & Associates, a Personal Career Coaching and HR Consulting firm. His key focus is devoted to providing individual career coaching to professionals in transition as well as working executive professionals in need of advice and counsel to achieve career aspirations. His "secret sauce" methodology has had a positive impact on the careers of many professionals. He continues to provide human resources consulting to companies on strategic issues involved with organization development, HR forensic assessments, executive development, senior level management issues, and employee relations matters. Also, Mr. Thomas has been a regular monthly presenter to professional job seekers at the Virginia Employment Commission offices in Alexandria and Woodbridge, VA. To date, his strategic job preparation presentation has been attended by thousands of professionals.

Prior to starting his firm Mr. Thomas was the EVP, Human Resources & Administration for webMethods, Inc. (a publicly traded software company). In this position, he provided leadership to the human resources, facilities, and information technology departments across thirteen locations world-wide.

With over 25 years of relevant HR experience, Mr. Thomas has held HR management or senior HR executive level positions at Ford Motor Company, Lockheed Martin, American Red Cross-National Headquarters, LCI International, Scientech, and 2nd Century Communications.

Mr. Thomas holds BA and MA degrees from Montclair State University