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Biography Before beginning his career in Real Estate, Jim obtained graduate degrees in Finance and Economics from Michigan State University & the University of Wisconsin and earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland Law School. Jim spent over 20 years, in the late '60s, '70's and early '80s, as a teacher, executive and leader in the human resource investment field in both the public and private sectors. He served in strategic planning and executive positions for two Mayors of the City of Baltimore, Thomas D'Alessandro Jr. and William Donald Schaefer. As the designer, co-founder and co-director of Baltimore’s youth and workforce development system he created innovative programs, many of which are still recognized as models for urban areas. A few of the many programs he developed and administered were: Johns Hopkins-NCAA College Summer Sports Program; Harbor City Learning: a School Without Walls, providing innovative alternative educational and job opportunities for thousands of City youth not served by the conventional school system; The Port of Baltimore Sea School, which provided youth with hands-on maritime occupational training, education and seamanship skills utilizing the resources of the Port; Pratt-Monroe Project: Neighborhood Development and Street Worker- Drug and Gang Control Project Job Training programs in Maryland's Correctional Institutions, and many others. He was active in almost every aspect of Baltimore's Renaissance including the Inner Harbor, Downtown and neighborhood real estate development, Welcome Committees for the history making Russian Tall Ship Tovarich and later the Bi-Centennial Tall Ship Festival. After his years of public service, he entered the private sector with CSX (railroads) and later, the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat), where he held top level organizational planning positions reporting to the Board of Directors of each organization. James also has authored numerous publications about urban development and workforce investment issues. One of the books he co-authored is Job Market Futurity, The Demand and Supply of Labor for Youth in Local Labor Markets.
WaterFront Jim was born in 1945 in the "Badlands West of the Pecos" in the Southern New Mexico desert town of Carlsbad. Even in the desert Jim was always on the water, Jim learned to swim, boat and fish with his grandfather, a cowboy who loved the water, in the fabled, cool, artesian spring-fed, Pecos River. Jim's father, an Aviator in WW II and the Korean War, made a career of the military.
Most of Jim's youth from the age of six until college, was spent living on or near the waters of Bermuda, Hawaii and Florida learning to sail and surf. In Hawaii, Jim first lived with a view of Waikiki and Diamond Head and his second home was perched on a hillside overlooking Pearl Harbor, where every day he walked out his door to school he viewed the Battleship Arizona Memorial. His Dad's B-52 weather surveillance squadron in Bermuda coined the name "Hurricane Hunters". In 1963, Jim graduated high school in Michigan where he achieved "All State" basketball recognition and later played for Michigan State University. In 1964, Jim experienced his first Fort Lauderdale "College Spring Break" . But the following summer he gave up the beach for an Internship at the Kennedy Space Center (then Cape Canaveral).
Jim's daughter, Summer, is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Washington and now works in Washington, D.C. for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). His son, Marc, graduated from Penn State and is Vice President of Independent Fiduciary Services in Washington, and a multi-billion dollar asset manager.
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Jim has held real estate licenses since 1979 in Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia and Florida. In the 1980's and '90s, based in Annapolis, Baltimore and D.C., Jim was recognized every year as one of the top Luxury Real Estate Professionals in the Chesapeake Tidewater area. Jim was recognized as the Sales Person of the Year in 1989. He obtained his Florida Broker's License in the late '90s and quickly achieved recognition as one of the top Luxury WaterFront Professionals in Fort Lauderdale.
Sales Record Waterfront Properties Listed and/or Sold by WaterFront Jim
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2407 Aqua
Vista Blvd |
4038 North Ocean Drive
4 Pelican Drive
2618 Sea Island Drive
421 Seven Isles Drive
1871 SE 7th Street Plus a few more !
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