James Helfrich received his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his PhD from Idaho State University. After working as a Software Developer and Program Manager at the Microsoft Corporation for 11 years on the Office family of product, he began teaching Software Engineering at Brigham Young University  - Idaho. Dr. Helfrich has taught thousands of students and prepared them for high paying software development jobs. Dr. Helfrich has written numerous scholarly articles on a variety of topics and has published four textbooks.