Profiles

Kevin D. James is an award-winning digital marketing strategist, revenue growth architect, and entrepreneur with deep expertise spanning technical SEO/AEO, agentic AI, high risk payment processing, and full-stack digital marketing.

– Kevin crafts unique brand stories, writes target audience relevant products descriptions, technical SEO road-maps, and data-driven pay-per-click advertising campaigns, social media marketing, and high converting native ads.

– One of the first US practitioners to deploy Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) strategies at scale with documented AI citation results across ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity AI.

– He’s the author of ‘The Complete AEO & LLM Visibility Playbook’ (2026) *View Source – https://gogl.to/3dR

– Adjunct Professor/Educator: at the University of Denver’s Digital Marketing Bootcamp (2020 through 2022). Kevin authored basic to advanced technical SEO course curriculum and taught approximately 140 students.

EXPERIENCE
– Active in UX/UI web development, SEO, and paid media marketing since 1998. *View source – https://bit.ly/3xWmPhM

– Hold certificates of competency and archives published on the Internet’s Way-back Machine. *View source – https://bit.ly/3xWmPhM

– 18+ years of managerial and directorial leadership with several top-tier marketing agencies. *Former employers include; National Positions Inc., 180 Fusion (the number #1 rated agency in Los Angeles), Blue Tangerine Agency, Madison Miles Media and currently Kevin is a strategic partner with NP Digital (a top 6 ranked global marketing agency: $348.6 million in gross revenue and 1,000 full-time employees).

AWARDS & ACCOLADES
He has garnered awards of distinction from Clutch.co, The Manifest, Google Partners, and Search Engine Marketing Professionals (SEMPO), for his designing growth strategies that achieve returns-on-investment as high as 28,300% across pay-per-click campaigns, social media platforms, and native advertising channels. *View awards gallery – https://bit.ly/3ZBIwyA

– ‘Best Global Agency’ recognition from Clutch.co in eight industry categories:
– ‘Global Marketing Leader’ (2025 & 2026) – View source: https://bit.ly/4cxGGDj | https://bit.ly/3RXumUA
– ‘Top Artificial Intelligence Company’, Denver (2024 & 2025)
– ‘Top User Experience Company, Consumer Products & Services’, Denver (2025)
– Top User Experience Company, Information Technology – Denver (2025)
– Best Content Writing Services (2024, 2025 & 2026)
– Product Description Writing Services (2024, 2025 & 2026)
– Best Digital Marketing (2024, 2025, 2026)
– AI Deployment, Standard Operating Procedures (2025 & 2026)
– Information Technology (2024, 2025 & 2026)

Clutch is North America’s leading ratings and customer satisfaction review platform for IT, digital marketing, SEO, web development and business services. Over 500,000 businesses are in the Clutch® database, earning recognition as a top 1% best digital marketing professional means that Kevin outperformed approximately 158,400 agencies and 99% of his peers in each category.

Entrepreneur Of Impact (2025 Award Nominee)
– Developed by business mogul Daymond John of the ABC television broadcast, “Shark Tank” in collaboration with Colossal Management, is an innovative competition designed to identify visionary entrepreneurs making a significant difference in their industries.
The champion won a $25,000 cash prize and a Forbes magazine advertorial. *View official source – https://bit.ly/4hdwqSs

Google Engage Agency Partner (2014 Award)
-Won second place and a silver award in Google’s 2014 ‘Best Small Agency’ annual competition. *Source – https://bit.ly/3Wz5kOL
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CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY

*Google Academy/Skillshop Alumni (six certificates earned) – https://gogl.to/484q
– Google Analytics (GA4) Certified
– Google Ads Certified | Mobile Advertising Certified | Google Video Search Certified
– Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional (Skillshop)

– Microsoft Bing: Professional Program | View certificates (2013 – 2019). – https://gogl.to/484y
– LinkedIn – an approved Business Marketing Ad Campaign Manager. – https://gogl.to/484o
– Shopify: an approved Partner and Expert Developer – https://gogl.to/4851

SEO/AEO & Generative Engine Optimization
– University of California at Davis – Feb. 2008, SEO Fundamentals, Content and Social Media Tactics to Enhance SEO, Advanced SEO Tactics. – https://gogl.to/484m

– SEMrush (4 certificates) Basic, Advanced & Technical SEO Specialist. (May 2011–2026) View certificates and transcripts – https://gogl.to/484w

Full-Stack & Front-End Development
– Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate (2023) – https://gogl.to/47wK
– Full Stack Developer, Certificate University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). December 2011. Completed a twenty-four-week boot-camp. – https://linkd.so/3DE7

– Front-End Developer: UCLA Extension Boot Camp ( 12/2011) – https://gogl.to/484v
– Harvard Edx.org (2020) | CS50 Web Programming with JavaScript & Python.CS50 Web Programming – https://gogl.to/484u

Artificial Intelligence (Certificates of Competency)
– Google’s, Machine Learning Foundational Course
– Introduction to Generative AI by Google
– IBM’s, AI Foundations for Everyone

– AI Chatbot Course by Ometrics.
Completed a 9-video course covering how to build, customize, and deploy AI chatbots for e-commerce, lead generation, and customer support. This course focuses on using the Ochatbot builder to create conversational chatbots that integrate with websites to increase sales and user engagement. – https://www.ometrics.com/blog/chatbotcourse/

Outskill.com AI Mastermind Boot-camp: April 2026
– AI Generalist, certified. View certificate of competency – https://gogl.to/47wb

Writing workflow automatons, mastering prompt frameworks, building personalized AI Agents, image and video generation, building and deployment of voice agents, Vibe Coding — building products without writing code, exploring Replit and no- code/low-code platforms for rapid prototyping. *In collaboration with Microsoft, Adobe, Uber, Domino’s, Amazon and Shell.

– Shopify-approved Partner and Expert Developer. View partner dashboard – https://bit.ly/3wPOro5
– HubSpot© Inbound Marketing certified and Social Media Marketing, certified

Search Engine Optimization (SEO Specialist)
– SEMrush© – Fundamentals and Technical SEO Specialist, certified
– ClickMinded© – SEO Specialist, certified.

Social Media Platform (Certificates of Competency)
LinkedIn – an approved LinkedIn Business Marketing Ad Campaign Manager.
HubSpot, Inbound Marketing certified and Social Media Marketing certified.
HubSpot Academy, Social Media Marketing Course
HubSpot, Instagram Ads Course.
Hootsuite Academy, Social Media Marketing Certification
Online Marketing Institute Social Media Marketing Certification (Level 2)
eMarketing Institute: Social Media Marketing Course and Certification.
TIkTok Academy and TikTok For Business