Management Team

Jim Studnicki

Founder and President

Jim has been working with computers and technology almost his entire life, starting with programming “vintage” personal computers like the Atari 400 and Apple II at a young age and learning to build circuits with a wooden Radio Shack 40 in 1 Electronic Project Kit.  He founded Creekside Digital in an upstairs bedroom in 2006 as the sole employee.  Today, Creekside Digital employs over 30 full-time skilled technicians, photographers, and software professionals, operates the largest facility in the United States dedicated to standards-compliant still image digitization, and counts some of our nation’s most prestigious cultural institutions as core customers.  Jim is focused on continually refining the company’s workflows to gain efficiencies while increasing quality, developing new and innovative solutions for our customers, and squeezing the final 2% of performance out of the vast amount of photography and computing equipment that Creekside Digital has accumulated over the last decade.   He is particularly interested in disruptively applying software to digitization-related activities to drive down costs, enable massive scalability, and create public access to previously inaccessible content.

Prior to founding Creekside Digital, Jim worked in the enterprise software industry for over a decade in various capacities—as a developer, implementation consultant, and finally in a technical presales role. He is an open source and open access advocate and holds an M.S. in Information Systems from the University of South Florida in Tampa.