James enjoys helping people express themselves in the best way possible to make their ideas shine. As the Marketing Manager at Natural Systems Design, James specializes in working across multidisciplinary teams to workshop, draft, and fine-tune messaging for pursuits, grants, and other communications for marketing and business development. He prioritizes the deep relationships built on trust between NSD and our clients, placing a particular emphasis on putting our clients’ needs first.

With a career spanning more than 20 years, James has served in a variety of communications-related capacities, including as an editor for a publishing company and professor of English at community colleges and universities in Southern California and Washington. With an eye toward advocacy, James serves at the board level with the Seattle chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS).

Off the clock, James enjoys reading and writing, but if that becomes too taxing, nothing is quite as inspiring as running along Washington’s many beautiful trails, designing costumes for Comic-Con, or strolling the neighborhood with his Bengal cat, Baldwin.