A resume of sorts

Types of Experience

Vision

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Redesigned and improved website and online marketing efforts to generate over $100k in retail sales in 2018.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Pushed for, installed, configured, and deployed a new web and email proxy that would provide real-time content scanning and web site classification to protect network computers from malicious web content and emails.
  • Created a comprehensive dashboard, which incorporated several different types of systems and logs, to help monitor all facets of security assurance activity within the company.

Performance Specialist (Full-Time) – Overstock
2010-2013

  • Pushed for and helped create the employee ‘Oasis’ – an internal resource for all employee news, needs, etc.
  • Constructed the first ‘Performance Specialist’ position at Overstock which comprised of:
    • Creating a team comprised of various department members
    • Formulating objectives and goals to help address site-wide performance-related issues in order to improve overall site responsiveness and end-user satisfaction
    • Exploring & utilizing various tools and tactics to achieve goals
    • Leading the performance team to help Overstock achieve several nationally-recognized performance awards

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Lead a team to discuss and organize potential style-related issues; Finalized and compiled Overstock’s company-wide style and brand/logo usage guide.
Marketing

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Coordinates promotions, campaigns, social media posts, or other types of marketing with each department manager.
  • Produces TVS Pro blog content and videos, social media posts, and advertising campaigns to support each departments goals.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new content management and scheduling system for the front-end developers and marketing team.
  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new promotions application for the marketing department.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2008

  • Designed and scheduled online promotions, marketing emails, and landing pages.
  • Participated on the enterprise in-house SEO team which produced record-breaking results – which was the most profitable marketing campaign in the history of the organization.
Design

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Coordinates promotions, campaigns, social media posts, or other types of marketing with each department manager.
  • Produces TVS Pro blog content and videos, social media posts, and advertising campaigns to support each departments goals.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new content management and scheduling system for the front-end developers and marketing team.
  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new promotions application for the marketing department.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2008

  • Designed and scheduled online promotions, marketing emails, and landing pages.
  • Participated on the enterprise in-house SEO team which produced record-breaking results – which was the most profitable marketing campaign in the history of the organization.

Various

Has designed logos, brochures, newspaper and magazine ads, newspaper inserts, direct mail pieces, t-shirts, stickers, posters, flyers, and more!

Development

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Evaluates and develops website improvements for functionality and user experience.
  • Addresses and helps prioritize website functionality needs and projects between managers and development.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Created and developed comprehensive dashboard, which incorporated several different types of systems and logs, to help monitor all facets of security assurance activity within the company.

Design & Engineering Intern (Full-Time) – Walt Disney World
2009

  • Developed a SharePoint (MOSS) site to manage the workflow of the professional intern recruiting process and to have the site automatically populate visual charts to display metrics on various aspects of recruitment and information once students have been hired on as an intern.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new content management and scheduling system for the front-end developers and marketing team.
  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new promotions application for the marketing department.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2008

  • Worked on the in-house SEO team to change website design and coding, front-end and back-end, to make the website more compatible for search engines.
  • Redesigned & developed the front-end capabilities of Overstock.com’s search and navigational functionality..
  • Consulted and advised on user experience, design, and development capabilities & logic with various project stakeholders, and ultimately ended up doing much of the coding and working one-on-one with developers to help complete projectors.
  • Personally consulted, advised, and worked directly with CEO, Patrick Byrne, on many special website projects.

Various

Has , at one time or another, worked with HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, MySQL, Java, PHP, ASP, BASIC, and even Assembly Language.

Management

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Manages four department marketing budgets by analyzing funds, meeting with department managers quarterly, and offering budget recommendations for optimization.
  • Coordinates promotions, social media posts, or other types of marketing with each department manager.
  • Addresses and helps prioritize website functionality needs and projects between managers and development.

Celebrity Handler (Volunteer) – FanX
2017-Present

  • Manages celebrity’s time and schedule, ensures enjoyable experiences by both celebrities and agents, helps manages line control and celebrity security, and handles money for autographs and table photographs and/or merchandise.

Photo Op Captain & Co-Manager (Volunteer) – FanX
2015-2016

  • Developed logistics of lines, guest check-ins, and volunteer responsibilities while working with conventional staff and third-party photo company.
  • Managed photo op volunteer logistics & training and fostered team communication prior to the event.
  • Served team of over 25 volunteers during event by focusing on their enjoyment of experience, feeling of value, having their physical and emotional needs met, and enabling them to contribute to the team efforts in a positive way.

Performance Specialist (Full-Time) – Overstock
2010-2013

  • Created and lead the first ‘Performance’ team at Overstock which lead Overstock to achieve several nationally-recognized performance awards.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Lead a team to discuss and organize potential style-related issues; Finalized and compiled Overstock’s company-wide style guide.
  • Managed a team of 12 front-end developers and graphic designers to ensure projects remained on task and workload was evenly dispersed according to capabilities.
Guest/Customer Service & Employee Improvement

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Working on improving customer relations by improving salesman communication tactics & follow-up (training, feedback, and processes).

Celebrity Handler (Volunteer) – FanX
2017-Present

  • Ensures celebrity and agents have an enjoyable experience by professionally addressing needs,managing money, and keeping celebrity on schedule for his/her panels, photo ops, and other obligations.
  • Provides pleasant interaction, and customer service with guests while presenting the celebrity offerings for purchase and visiting with guests prior to their celebrity experience.

Checker (Volunteer) – Bishop’s Storehouse
2017-Present

  • Engages with shoppers if they need help or have questions.
  • Cheerfully arranges a fast, streamline checkout experience and participates in friendly conversation during the process.

Photo Op Captain & Co-Manager (Volunteer) – FanX
2015-2016

  • Made suggestions and followed through with two 3rd party partners and convention staff, in regards to photo ops, in helping them implement changes and communication to photo op purchasers – in regards to times, lines, and rules.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock

  • Tactfully analyzed, managed, and addressed possible security and/or policy breaches by employees.
  • Closely worked with several teams to address various security and/or policy issues that needed to be resolved on employee computers or in business or application processes.
Logistics & Operations

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Researched, configured, and implemented a task workflow application for marketing, development, and individual projects.

Photo Op Captain & Co-Manager (Volunteer) – FanX
2015-2016

  • Helped develop the idea of monitors, similar to airport boarding times, to help communicate status of various photo ops and organize photo op lines.
  • Made several adjustments to photo op line and booth layout to help improve efficiency of line movement.

Design & Engineering Intern (Full-Time) – Walt Disney World
2009

  • Developed a SharePoint (MOSS) site to manage the workflow of the professional intern recruiting process and to have the site automatically populate visual charts to display metrics on various aspects of recruitment and information once students have been hired on as an intern.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Created an entire training program for new front-end developers.
  • Created and implemented a front-end development testing and deployment process.
Analytics

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Keeps track of and analyzes website traffic, visits, and behavior.
  • Manages and analyzes performance, success, and ROI on marketing campaigns.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Created custom rules and filters to help monitor and prevent security policy breaches.
  • Created a comprehensive security dashboard comprised of custom query and mathematical formulas to help give an overview of the status of security events.

Performance Specialist (Full-Time) – Overstock
2009

  • Created custom monitoring alerts and dashboards, partially comprised of complicated mathematical formulas, to view performance over time.
  • Created a website performance scorecard for daily consecutive review.
  • Investigated stats, behavior of performance, and looked for and found ways to improve or modify performance results.
Self-Taught

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Took on the task of learning Adwords, Bing Ads, and social media marketing advertising platforms, strategy, and management.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Was given the opportunity to work with an application and create alerts and dashboards that no one else in the company had done before.
  • Was given the opportunity to research, deploy, manage, and organize a new front-end protection program application.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2009

  • Reverse-engineered the site to learn enterprise-level front-end development (including html, javascript, and css along with cross-browser compatibility).
Amusement

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Was given charge of Halloween decorations two years in a row and designed the wildly successful Monty Python and the Holy Grail hallway.
  • Was given charge to pick the theme and decorate the IT department’s Christmas tree.
    The theme was ‘A Very Merry Marvel Christmas.’ It had a full-wall city scape behind it with super heroes (both Marvel and DC) swinging in and out, hanging above the tree, and decorating in and around the tree.

IT Security Intern (Full-Time) – Walt Disney World
2010

  • Created a team competition to motivate the IT Security Compliance team to complete their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) auditing gaps.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2009

  • Pushed for and designed the wildly successful ‘odd gifts’ landing page
  • Suggested and planned the Overstock.com Office Olympics (complete with toga/torch walk with VP, sponsorship/catering by McDonalds, events, and medal award ceremonies)
  • Design and changed (and sometimes animated) the site logo for holiday events (similar to how Google does).
Tools

Tools I’ve Used One Time Or Another

  • Adwords – Google’s Advertising Platform
  • Bing Ads – Bing’s Advertising Platform
  • Bluecoat – Security/Web Proxy & Advanced Secure Gateway
  • CorelDraw – Adobe Illustrator’s competitor
  • CorelPaint – Adobe Photoshop’s competitor
  • CPanel – Web Hosting Platform
  • Dreamweaver – Website Development Application
  • Excel/Charts (Microsoft)
  • Facebook – Business Manager & Advertising Platform
  • Fireworks (Macromedia) – Web-Focused Graphic Design Software
  • Flash (Macromedia) – Animated Web Application Software
  • Hootesuite – Social Media Platform Manager
  • Illustrator (Adobe) – Graphic Design/Illustrating Software
  • InDesign – Publishing and Typsetting Application
  • Jira – Software Development and Workflow Manager
  • LinkedIn – Business Manager, Recruiting, & Advertising Platform
  • MySQL – Database Management Tools
  • Netscape Composer/Editor – Primitive HTML/Website Editor
  • Netscape Composer/Editor – Primitive HTML/Website Editor
  • Photoshop (Adobe) – Graphic Design/Photo Manipulation Software
  • Premiere Pro (Adobe) – Video Editing and Production Software
  • QuarkXPress – Desktop Publishing Software
  • Reddit – Social Media and Advertising Platform
  • Sharepoint – Team Collaboration and Workflow Website Application
  • Splunk – Security/Data Mining Tool
  • Symantec – Enterprise Endpoint Security Solution
  • Twitter – Advertising Platform
  • Vegas Pro – Video Editing Software
  • WebDefend (Trustwave) – Web Application Firewall
  • Websense – Security/Web Proxy & Content Gateway
  • Word (Microsoft)
  • WordPress – Website Content Management
  • WordStream – Online Marketing Management
  • YouTube – Channel and Studio Applications for Business

Types of Experience

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Redesigned and improved website and online marketing efforts to generate over $100k in retail sales in 2018.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Pushed for, installed, configured, and deployed a new web and email proxy that would provide real-time content scanning and web site classification to protect network computers from malicious web content and emails.
  • Created a comprehensive dashboard, which incorporated several different types of systems and logs, to help monitor all facets of security assurance activity within the company.

Performance Specialist (Full-Time) – Overstock
2010-2013

  • Pushed for and helped create the employee ‘Oasis’ – an internal resource for all employee news, needs, etc.
  • Constructed the first ‘Performance Specialist’ position at Overstock which comprised of:
    • Creating a team comprised of various department members
    • Formulating objectives and goals to help address site-wide performance-related issues in order to improve overall site responsiveness and end-user satisfaction
    • Exploring & utilizing various tools and tactics to achieve goals
    • Leading the performance team to help Overstock achieve several nationally-recognized performance awards

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Lead a team to discuss and organize potential style-related issues; Finalized and compiled Overstock’s company-wide style and brand/logo usage guide.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Coordinates promotions, campaigns, social media posts, or other types of marketing with each department manager.
  • Produces TVS Pro blog content and videos, social media posts, and advertising campaigns to support each departments goals.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new content management and scheduling system for the front-end developers and marketing team.
  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new promotions application for the marketing department.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2008

  • Designed and scheduled online promotions, marketing emails, and landing pages.
  • Participated on the enterprise in-house SEO team which produced record-breaking results – which was the most profitable marketing campaign in the history of the organization.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Coordinates promotions, campaigns, social media posts, or other types of marketing with each department manager.
  • Produces TVS Pro blog content and videos, social media posts, and advertising campaigns to support each departments goals.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new content management and scheduling system for the front-end developers and marketing team.
  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new promotions application for the marketing department.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2008

  • Designed and scheduled online promotions, marketing emails, and landing pages.
  • Participated on the enterprise in-house SEO team which produced record-breaking results – which was the most profitable marketing campaign in the history of the organization.

Various

Has designed logos, brochures, newspaper and magazine ads, newspaper inserts, direct mail pieces, t-shirts, stickers, posters, flyers, and more!

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Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Evaluates and develops website improvements for functionality and user experience.
  • Addresses and helps prioritize website functionality needs and projects between managers and development.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Created and developed comprehensive dashboard, which incorporated several different types of systems and logs, to help monitor all facets of security assurance activity within the company.

Design & Engineering Intern (Full-Time) – Walt Disney World
2009

  • Developed a SharePoint (MOSS) site to manage the workflow of the professional intern recruiting process and to have the site automatically populate visual charts to display metrics on various aspects of recruitment and information once students have been hired on as an intern.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new content management and scheduling system for the front-end developers and marketing team.
  • Designed, and wrote the technical requirements for a new promotions application for the marketing department.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2008

  • Worked on the in-house SEO team to change website design and coding, front-end and back-end, to make the website more compatible for search engines.
  • Redesigned & developed the front-end capabilities of Overstock.com’s search and navigational functionality..
  • Consulted and advised on user experience, design, and development capabilities & logic with various project stakeholders, and ultimately ended up doing much of the coding and working one-on-one with developers to help complete projectors.
  • Personally consulted, advised, and worked directly with CEO, Patrick Byrne, on many special website projects.

Various

Has , at one time or another, worked with HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL, MySQL, Java, PHP, ASP, BASIC, and even Assembly Language.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Manages four department marketing budgets by analyzing funds, meeting with department managers quarterly, and offering budget recommendations for optimization.
  • Coordinates promotions, social media posts, or other types of marketing with each department manager.
  • Addresses and helps prioritize website functionality needs and projects between managers and development.

Celebrity Handler (Volunteer) – FanX
2017-Present

  • Manages celebrity’s time and schedule, ensures enjoyable experiences by both celebrities and agents, helps manages line control and celebrity security, and handles money for autographs and table photographs and/or merchandise.

Photo Op Captain & Co-Manager (Volunteer) – FanX
2015-2016

  • Developed logistics of lines, guest check-ins, and volunteer responsibilities while working with conventional staff and third-party photo company.
  • Managed photo op volunteer logistics & training and fostered team communication prior to the event.
  • Served team of over 25 volunteers during event by focusing on their enjoyment of experience, feeling of value, having their physical and emotional needs met, and enabling them to contribute to the team efforts in a positive way.

Performance Specialist (Full-Time) – Overstock
2010-2013

  • Created and lead the first ‘Performance’ team at Overstock which lead Overstock to achieve several nationally-recognized performance awards.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Lead a team to discuss and organize potential style-related issues; Finalized and compiled Overstock’s company-wide style guide.
  • Managed a team of 12 front-end developers and graphic designers to ensure projects remained on task and workload was evenly dispersed according to capabilities.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Working on improving customer relations by improving salesman communication tactics & follow-up (training, feedback, and processes).

Celebrity Handler (Volunteer) – FanX
2017-Present

  • Ensures celebrity and agents have an enjoyable experience by professionally addressing needs,managing money, and keeping celebrity on schedule for his/her panels, photo ops, and other obligations.
  • Provides pleasant interaction, and customer service with guests while presenting the celebrity offerings for purchase and visiting with guests prior to their celebrity experience.

Checker (Volunteer) – Bishop’s Storehouse
2017-Present

  • Engages with shoppers if they need help or have questions.
  • Cheerfully arranges a fast, streamline checkout experience and participates in friendly conversation during the process.

Photo Op Captain & Co-Manager (Volunteer) – FanX
2015-2016

  • Made suggestions and followed through with two 3rd party partners and convention staff, in regards to photo ops, in helping them implement changes and communication to photo op purchasers – in regards to times, lines, and rules.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock

  • Tactfully analyzed, managed, and addressed possible security and/or policy breaches by employees.
  • Closely worked with several teams to address various security and/or policy issues that needed to be resolved on employee computers or in business or application processes.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Researched, configured, and implemented a task workflow application for marketing, development, and individual projects.

Photo Op Captain & Co-Manager (Volunteer) – FanX
2015-2016

  • Helped develop the idea of monitors, similar to airport boarding times, to help communicate status of various photo ops and organize photo op lines.
  • Made several adjustments to photo op line and booth layout to help improve efficiency of line movement.

Design & Engineering Intern (Full-Time) – Walt Disney World
2009

  • Developed a SharePoint (MOSS) site to manage the workflow of the professional intern recruiting process and to have the site automatically populate visual charts to display metrics on various aspects of recruitment and information once students have been hired on as an intern.

Front-End Developer Manager (Full-Time) – Overstock
2008-2010

  • Created an entire training program for new front-end developers.
  • Created and implemented a front-end development testing and deployment process.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Keeps track of and analyzes website traffic, visits, and behavior.
  • Manages and analyzes performance, success, and ROI on marketing campaigns.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Created custom rules and filters to help monitor and prevent security policy breaches.
  • Created a comprehensive security dashboard comprised of custom query and mathematical formulas to help give an overview of the status of security events.

Performance Specialist (Full-Time) – Overstock
2009

  • Created custom monitoring alerts and dashboards, partially comprised of complicated mathematical formulas, to view performance over time.
  • Created a website performance scorecard for daily consecutive review.
  • Investigated stats, behavior of performance, and looked for and found ways to improve or modify performance results.

Marketing Manager (Full-Time) – TVS Pro
2016 – Present

  • Took on the task of learning Adwords, Bing Ads, and social media marketing advertising platforms, strategy, and management.

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Was given the opportunity to work with an application and create alerts and dashboards that no one else in the company had done before.
  • Was given the opportunity to research, deploy, manage, and organize a new front-end protection program application.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2009

  • Reverse-engineered the site to learn enterprise-level front-end development (including html, javascript, and css along with cross-browser compatibility).

Security Analyst (Full-Time) – Overstock
2013-2016

  • Was given charge of Halloween decorations two years in a row and designed the wildly successful Monty Python and the Holy Grail hallway.
  • Was given charge to pick the theme and decorate the IT department’s Christmas tree.
    The theme was ‘A Very Merry Marvel Christmas.’ It had a full-wall city scape behind it with super heroes (both Marvel and DC) swinging in and out, hanging above the tree, and decorating in and around the tree.

IT Security Intern (Full-Time) – Walt Disney World
2010

  • Created a team competition to motivate the IT Security Compliance team to complete their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) auditing gaps.

Lead Front-End Developer (Full-Time) – Overstock
2006-2009

  • Pushed for and designed the wildly successful ‘odd gifts’ landing page
  • Suggested and planned the Overstock.com Office Olympics (complete with toga/torch walk with VP, sponsorship/catering by McDonalds, events, and medal award ceremonies)
  • Design and changed (and sometimes animated) the site logo for holiday events (similar to how Google does).

Tools I’ve Used One Time Or Another

  • Adwords – Google’s Advertising Platform
  • Bing Ads – Bing’s Advertising Platform
  • Bluecoat – Security/Web Proxy & Advanced Secure Gateway
  • CorelDraw – Adobe Illustrator’s competitor
  • CorelPaint – Adobe Photoshop’s competitor
  • CPanel – Web Hosting Platform
  • Dreamweaver – Website Development Application
  • Excel/Charts (Microsoft)
  • Facebook – Business Manager & Advertising Platform
  • Fireworks (Macromedia) – Web-Focused Graphic Design Software
  • Flash (Macromedia) – Animated Web Application Software
  • Hootesuite – Social Media Platform Manager
  • Illustrator (Adobe) – Graphic Design/Illustrating Software
  • InDesign – Publishing and Typsetting Application
  • Jira – Software Development and Workflow Manager
  • LinkedIn – Business Manager, Recruiting, & Advertising Platform
  • MySQL – Database Management Tools
  • Netscape Composer/Editor – Primitive HTML/Website Editor
  • Netscape Composer/Editor – Primitive HTML/Website Editor
  • Photoshop (Adobe) – Graphic Design/Photo Manipulation Software
  • Premiere Pro (Adobe) – Video Editing and Production Software
  • QuarkXPress – Desktop Publishing Software
  • Reddit – Social Media and Advertising Platform
  • Sharepoint – Team Collaboration and Workflow Website Application
  • Splunk – Security/Data Mining Tool
  • Symantec – Enterprise Endpoint Security Solution
  • Twitter – Advertising Platform
  • Vegas Pro – Video Editing Software
  • WebDefend (Trustwave) – Web Application Firewall
  • Websense – Security/Web Proxy & Content Gateway
  • Word (Microsoft)
  • WordPress – Website Content Management
  • WordStream – Online Marketing Management
  • YouTube – Channel and Studio Applications for Business