After serving a successful apprenticeship in the building trades in his native England, and years of building houses and various structures in the British Isles, James decided to emigrate to the United States.
He applied his building knowledge and trade first on the East coast, primarily in Pennsylvannia and New York, before establishing Master Masonry Concrete Construction in Los Angeles in 1994 immediately following the Northridge earthquake.
Since then, MMCC has completed many residential and commercial construction projects