Jim started his career as an accomplished freelance illustrator and expanded his talents developing advertising illustration and storyboards with West End Studios in San Francisco.

He has produced numerous illustrations and campaign concepts for consumer, business-to-business and hi-tech brands while working for agencies that include J. Walter Thompson, Foote, Cone & Belding, Young and Rubicam, Saatchi and Saatchi and CKS/Partners.

Jim has also shared and enhanced his passion for traditional illustration and image creation as an instructor at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He has mastered Photoshop and many other digital imaging programs along with new and emerging print production techniques. His curiosity and fluency with digital imaging has become a full time pursuit.