Integrated Communications: Public Affairs. Advertising. Marketing.

For the past twenty years or so I have worked in public affairs, advertising and marketing. I’ve been fortunate to work on some very challenging projects for interesting clients. I am currently a Managing Director for The Glover Park Group.

If it’s details you’re after, here’s a one page bio and resume.

If your time and attention is short, here’s the Reader’s Digest version of my story:

After college and graduate school I got a job working for a leading Democratic political consulting firm. I spent the next ten years working to elect Democrats to state and federal office.

It was an incredible learning experience – and great preparation for all that has followed. Few things teach you to focus your attention like an Election Day.

In the mid-nineties I made the transition to corporate work. During this time I created the advocacy advertising and digital media business unit at Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm.

In 1999 I set up an independent consulting practice focused on public affairs, advertising and marketing.

Over the past ten years I’ve had the chance to work on interesting projects for great clients, including The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, The United States Mint, The St. Joe Company, ReMain Nantucket, The Nemours Foundation, and TimberWest.

I’ve been hired to manage coalitions, develop integrated communications plans, lead creative development projects, write and produce advertising and marketing materials and critique and develop web strategies (among other things).

I’ve been part of a public affairs team that moved an airport, which, as it turns out, is not so easy.

One client kindly referred to me as a “Thinking Partner.” Some days I feel more like Winston Wolf.

By far the most interesting thing I’ve done in the past twenty years is to travel around the world for ten months with my wife and two children during 2008-2009. We documented our adventure here.

If this hasn’t satisfied your curiosity, there’s more of me on the web at: The Wide Wide World, Facebook, Posterous, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr and Twitter.

Need more information? Email me at craigajames (at) mac (dot) com.