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SUMMARY:

Entrepreneurial minded, technology savvy leader who understands and creates value at the intersection of technology and business. Uniquely capable of discussing complex, challenging and technical problems in terms understandable by a varied audience including all levels of management, technical resources and project managers using analogies and breadth of organizational, technical and business knowledge.Skills & Abilities management
Over 10 years’ experience leading and motivating employees in developing common goals, creating action plans, executing tasks and achieving success. Adept in garnering support for new ideas and marshalling resources to quickly implement solutions across multiple organizations.
business administration
Working knowledge of product sourcing, warehousing and fulfillment. Experience optimizing and automating complete product lifecycle from procurement to shipment. Understanding of what it takes to run a successful business.
ecommerce
Practical knowledge and over 7 years’ experience with online sales including website analytics and reporting, search engine optimization (SEO), marketing and customer retention.
software development
Comprehensive development knowledge using C#, .NET, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, MS SQL and MySQL. Capable of architecting and building production distributed, cloud based solutions. 30+ years’ experience developing software.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Co - Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provide industry leading ecommerce consulting that includes platform and catalog management, marketing, optimization and product sourcing.
Provide clients with comprehensive ecommerce solutions that make them succeed in the online marketplace.
Utilize Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform and Services for development, database and client portal needs.

Carpenter

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked on comprehensive remodeling projects including electrical, heating ventilation air conditioning, plumbing and ceramic tiling.
Finished projects included a 1,100 sq/ft complete basement build-out and 600 sq/ft kitchen remodel.
Also identified the burgeoning market in home poker games by designing, crafting and marketing high end custom tables for home use.

Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Sold home improvement and décor items over the internet through multiple channels including eBay and a dedicated website.
Online sales grew year over year for 5 consecutive years and the business grew from a 3 employee operation in a 2,000 sq/ft storefront to a 15+ employees and a 40,000 sq/ft warehouse.
Developed custom software using ASP and MySQL that managed and automated all aspects of sales that included listing new items, warehousing inventory, order fulfillment and shipping integration.
Because of excellent procedures, lean operations and custom automation software, the business outlasted many competitors in a struggling housing market.

QuikDrop Atlanta Area Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Identified emerging business opportunity in eBay Drop-Off stores, purchased the rights to all 18 QuikDrop Franchises in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area and took the responsibility for developing the QuikDrop brand and presence.
Trained franchisees on store ownership and operations as well as assistance opening new locations and local advertising.
Owned and operated a QuikDrop location where customers brought items to be evaluated, described, photographed, listed and sold on eBay for a commission.

World-Wide Provisioning Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

While working as a technical support tools developer, identified an opportunity to manage all IT services with a common framework allowing disparate services to be managed commonly.
Architected, designed and developed a comprehensive service provisioning platform that automatically managed the assignment, modification and termination of IT services for over 100,000 employees called the Automated Technology Manager (ATM).
When employees joined the company, services were automatically provisioned and conversely, when employees left the company, services were terminated.
All IT services were capable of being managed by this framework.
Some of the services included HP-3000 and Unix Print Services, Microsoft Domain Services, Microsoft Exchange, Telephony and Data Services.
Managed the Catalyst team of 10+ geographically diverse developers.
The ATM is still in production use at H-P today.