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About James "Jim" Rankin
 James
Edwin “Jim” Rankin was a dedicated PMI member, utilizing his
teaching skills to promote project management and teach project
management skills. He was very involved with the Dallas Chapter of
PMI.
Mr. Rankin’s
computer career began in the United States Air Force where his
military records hail him as “The Outstanding Student” in his class
at Shepard Air Force Base Technical Training Center.
In 1969, Jim
Rankin married Brenda Kay Turner of Newberry, South Carolina. Upon
concluding his military service, the Rankins moved to Dayton, Ohio.
After graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in
Quantitative Business Analysis from Wright State University, he was
recruited by Ross Perot’s Electronic Data Systems, Inc., (EDS).
Jim had extensive experience as
project manager and lead programmer/analyst in the financial
industry with project management and IT certifications, and proven
capabilities in large-scale financial applications. Some of these
included a certificate of deposit, mortgage loan origination, and
securities custody and control. One of his proudest professional
accomplishments was writing a major portion of Mortgage Lending and
Control System (MLCS) while employed by Symbolics Financial Systems,
Inc. and Lomas & Nettleton Information Systems, Inc.
Richland College
provided an outlet for his love of teaching. Jim taught technology
classes on a part-time basis from 1979 – 1992. He was responsible
for text selection and course materials development in courses for
COBOL, CICS, JCL, programming logic and MS-DOS just to name a few.
Beloved by his students, he loved to use humor to make learning
fun.
Jim Rankin was not only an incredible presence in the
professional world, he was also a brilliant person of rarity. He
was an amazingly humble man. So much so, that even his family was
not aware of many of his accomplishments until researching his
biography. He started every day by reading the Sports page and
completing the crossword puzzle. His memory was virtually
flawless. His personal loves were God, family, golf, sports, golf,
hamburgers, and golf. Jim was an adoring father to three daughters
and “Grampy” to one grandson. His love for his family was even more
extraordinary than his amazing life.
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