An award-winning, exceptionally skilled talent pool.
Meet Kevin James, the driving force behind KJ ProWeb, an award-winning digital marketing consultant to global brands, a certified technical SEO expert, and a content marketing rock
star.
Highlights of Kevin's twenty-seven years in web development and digital marketing includes winning prestigious awards and accolades from Google Partners, Search Engine Marketing Professionals (SEMPO), The Manifest, and Clutch for online marketing excellence based on customer satisfaction reviews. View award gallery - Click to view archives
Highlights of Kevin's twenty-seven years in web development and digital marketing includes winning prestigious awards and accolades from Google Partners, Search Engine Marketing Professionals (SEMPO), The Manifest, and Clutch for online marketing excellence based on customer satisfaction reviews. View award gallery - Click to view archives
- Global Marketing Leader, Spring 2024
- Global Content Writing Services, Award, 2024
- Top 1% Best Content Writing Services, Denver 2024
- Top 1% Best Artificial Intelligence Company, Denver 2024
- Top 1% Best Digital Marketing Company, Denver 2024
- Top 1% Best User Experience IT Company, Colorado, 2024
Clutch is North America's leading ratings and customer satisfaction review platform for IT, digital marketing, SEO, web development, and business services. With over 500,000 businesses in the Clutch database, earning recognition as a top 1% rated marketing professional means that Kevin James has outperformed approximately 158,400 agencies and solopreneurs in each category.
Google Partners (2014)
Kevin James distinguished himself from among hundreds of Google Engage Agency Partners winning second place, a silver award in Google's annual 'Best Small Agency’ competition.
Winners were featured in the August 2014 edition of Ad Age™ magazine.
ResultsKevin's impressive portfolio of work demonstrates an ability to consistently generate Returns On Ad Spend (ROAS) 400%, 1800% to upwards of 35,000% on PPC and social media advertising campaigns.
Largest Billing Clients
Kevin James significantly contributed web development projects, SEO, PPC, and digital marketing campaigns for the following brands:
- Kraft Foods
- American Express
- Disney Consumer Products Group & Interactive Media
- Brazil's Tourist Authority
- Certa Pro Painters
- Volkswagen
- Land Rover
- Versa Products
- Denver Health & Hospital Authority
- Topeka Kansas Zoo
- Organo Gold© - a network marketing industry giant boasting $300 million in annual revenue with 250,000 distributors.
- Denver Health & Hospital Authority-a top ten US-based regional hospital with $2.3 billion in gross revenue and over 12,000 employees.
- K-1 Global©/K-1 Professional Kickboxing —the longest-running and largest professional kickboxing event promotion in combat sports history.
- Adjunct Professor/non-tenured faculty (contractor) at the University of Denver's Digital Marketing Boot Camp. Kevin designed a comprehensive SEO course curriculum and taught over 100 students, with 80% securing positions in digital marketing within six to nine months of course completion.
- Agency Leadership: 18 years in agency roles: Senior SEO Specialist, SEO Manager, and Director of Digital Marketing for eight-figure brands and top-tier reputable agencies, namely - 180 Fusion, National Positions Inc., Blue Tangerine, and Madison Miles Media Inc. Kevin mentored 4-to 12-person teams in thriving environments of collaboration and excellence.
Two aforementioned employers, National Positions and 180Fusion, were ranked by INC Magazine among the top #500 fastest-growing companies in America, with articles featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, and Ad World.
180 Fusion has 56 published client testimonials and was voted the number #1 digital marketing agency in LA in 2014 by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Kevin is appreciated by name for orchestrating impressive organic search results. -https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/180fusion.com"
Two of Kevin's aforementioned employers, Nationals Positions® and 180Fusion® were ranked by INC® Magazine among the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies In America,” and have over 100 feature articles in prominent publications, namely, Forbes, Bloomberg, Ad World, and Affiliate World.
Industry Awards
Clutch.co: ‘2024 Top 1% Best Agency’ recognition. Click to view source
Expert in all aspects of online content creation, content marketing, and holistic advertising campaign management.
- Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Certified (GDME) - Meta Certified Media Buying Professional
- Meta Certified Marketing Science Professional - Meta Certified Creative Strategy Professional - HubSpot Inbound Marketing Certified - HubSpot Content Marketing Certified
Hard Skills
- Performs comprehensive website audits, competitive intelligence market research, customer journey mapping and conversion optimization studies.
- Keyword research and growth opportunity analysis.
- Executes a variety of technical SEO tasks, such as website crawls, indexing, monitoring of ranking signals, on-page optimization, etc.
- Generates monthly and quarterly SEO reports and communicate progress of SEO campaigns to our clients, present new strategies, and maintain relationships with them.
- Works closely with client’s content and marketing teams to ensure our clients’ SEO, marketing, and business goals are met, Provides training in SEO to clients to help them and understand SEO concepts, tools, strategies, and best practices.
- Performs research on trending keywords. Creates and edits content as deemed necessary.
- Use analytical tools to gauge the success of content.
- Works with the top #10 social media platforms, optimizing campaigns and maximizing profitability for advertisers.
- Meta Certified Marketing Science Professional
Hard Skills
- Performs comprehensive website audits, competitive intelligence market research, customer journey mapping and conversion optimization studies.
- Keyword research and growth opportunity analysis.
- Executes a variety of technical SEO tasks, such as website crawls, indexing, monitoring of ranking signals, on-page optimization, etc.
- Generates monthly and quarterly SEO reports and communicate progress of SEO campaigns to our clients, present new strategies, and maintain relationships with them.
- Works closely with client’s content and marketing teams to ensure our clients’ SEO, marketing, and business goals are met, Provides training in SEO to clients to help them and understand SEO concepts, tools, strategies, and best practices.
- Performs research on trending keywords. Creates and edits content as deemed necessary.
- Use analytical tools to gauge the success of content.
- Works with the top #10 social media platforms, optimizing campaigns and maximizing profitability for advertisers.
Senior Linux SysAdmin & DevOps
Administration & Management of Servers
- Linux Distribution Mastery: Proficient in CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian -
Web Server Technologies: Expert in Apache, Nginx, Varnish, and HAProxy configuration -
Database Management: Skilled in MySQL and MariaDB administration
- Email server configuration; support for SPF, DKIM, DMARC, rDNS Installation, configuration, testing and
- Senior/Lead administration of cPanel/WHM, Virtualmin/Webmin, CWP, VestaCP, KloxoMR, and PLESK.
- Security Implementation: Advanced knowledge of Iptables and firewall configuration -
Monitoring and Analytics: Experienced with Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti, Icinga2, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kibana -
Containerization and Orchestration: Proficient in Docker and Kubernetes -
Virtualization: Skilled in Proxmox and OpenNebula management - Control Panels: Expert in cPanel, Plesk, CWP, VestaCP, and Virtualmin
Professional Achievements
- Implemented robust monitoring solutions using Zabbix and Grafana, significantly improving system uptime and performance visibility.
- Orchestrated large-scale server migrations to AWS, optimizing infrastructure costs and enhancing scalability.
- Designed and deployed high-availability solutions using HAProxy and Varnish, resulting in 99.99% uptime for critical services
Automated routine tasks with Ansible, reducing manual intervention by 70% and minimizing human error.
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- cPanel Professional Certification (CPP)
- Various Udemy certifications in advanced Linux administration and cloud technologies.
- Linux Distribution Mastery: Proficient in CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian
- Email server configuration; support for SPF, DKIM, DMARC, rDNS Installation, configuration, testing and
- Senior/Lead administration of cPanel/WHM, Virtualmin/Webmin, CWP, VestaCP, KloxoMR, and PLESK.
- Security Implementation: Advanced knowledge of Iptables and firewall configuration
Professional Achievements
Certifications
DevOps
- Master Certified Web Professional – Designer (CWP) & Technical SEO Expert
- Google UX Design Professional,
- Certified.
- BrainStation Web Development Course.
- Certificate of Competency Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP).
- Javascript Development Certified Professional.
Led and managed a team of 12 developers and designers to create efficient, effective, and aesthetic websites for 600+ clients.
- Designs, develops, and supports new and existing websites and web applications.
- Over 180 applications.
- Conceptualized, created, and managed thousands of dynamic web pages using appropriate technologies (HTML/HTML5, PHP, CSS, React and Web CMS).
- Google UX Design Professional,
- Certified.
- BrainStation Web Development Course.
- Certificate of Competency Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP).
- Javascript Development Certified Professional.
Led and managed a team of 12 developers and designers to create efficient, effective, and aesthetic websites for 600+ clients.
- Designs, develops, and supports new and existing websites and web applications.
- Over 180 applications.
- Conceptualized, created, and managed thousands of dynamic web pages using appropriate technologies (HTML/HTML5, PHP, CSS, React and Web CMS).
- Senior Web Server Administrator & Technical Support
Maintains software and security updates
- Monitors server activity
- Ensure the availability of server applications
- Audits server security
- Develops and refines the processes for ongoing management of servers
- Designs and installs new server implementations
- Performs daily backups and recovery functions.
Maintains software and security updates
- Monitors server activity
- Ensure the availability of server applications
- Audits server security
- Develops and refines the processes for ongoing management of servers
- Designs and installs new server implementations
- Performs daily backups and recovery functions.
