About
James Jones, principal.
Mason & Jones is a Texas consultancy. I came up through the Army and McKinsey. We have put AI on the part of a business that was slowing everything else down — more than once. I work from Round Rock.
I read a system, find the constraint, and stay long enough to change it. AI is a tool in that work — useful when it compresses time or cost, decorative when it does not.
Selected experience
McKinsey & Company
Austin, Texas
Associate
AI-enabled operating-model work for insurance and industrial clients. The job was to take a messy operation, find the constraint, and install a model the client could run without a consulting team in the building.
Neubus, Inc.
Austin, Texas
Chief of Operations
Took the production system apart and put it back together. Output up 38 percent. Unit cost down about 30 percent. Margin up about 40 percent. That is the kind of work I still like — the numbers move because the work changed.
U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Division
Savannah, Georgia · Republic of Korea
Commander / Chief of Operations
Led organizations of more than a thousand people. Ran an ERP implementation for 1,100+ users. Directed a multinational transformation with the Republic of Korea Army covering 1,800 personnel. High-stakes operations, no rehearsal.
Why Mason & Jones
We take the work a large firm prices like a program. If the operation is real and the constraint is clear — write.