An award-winning, exceptionally skilled talent pool.
Meet Kevin James, the founder and driving force behind KJ ProWeb.. Kevin's results-driven approach in technical SEO, paid search, and content marketing domains has garnered awards from Google Partners, Clutch.com, The Manifest.com, Search Engine Marketing Professionals (SEMPO), Search Engine Land, and the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Experience
Active in web development, SEO, and Internet marketing since 2001 as verified through digital archives on the Internet’s Wayback Machine. - Click to view archives
Experience
Active in web development, SEO, and Internet marketing since 2001 as verified through digital archives on the Internet’s Wayback Machine. - Click to view archives
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Clutch.co (2024): In 2024, Kevin earned Clutch.co Top Agency Awards and recognition in four categories:
*Top Content Writing Services, Denver 2024 -
*Top Artificial Intelligence Company, Denver 2024 - - National Positions Inc.
- 180 Fusion, and
- Madison Miles Media.
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, AdWorld, and Affiliate World.
Key Clients Served
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. Instructor of SEO and paid search advertising. Summer semester boot camps; 2020, 2021 & 2022.
Industry Awards
*Top Digital Marketing Company, Denver 2024 -
*Top User Experience Information Technology Company in Colorado, 2024
Click here to view to award gallery.
Clutch.co 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, the fact that Kevin James earned top 1% recognition in each of these categories means that he outperformed approximately 158,400 digital marketing agencies and solopreneurs on a state and national level.
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.
Results:Kevin'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.
Directorial & Managerial Leadership
Kevin held director of marketing and SEO manager roles with award-winning digital marketing industry giants such as:
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.
