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EXPERIENCE

Company: idimension, inc.
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida
Period: 10/98 to Present
Title: President.
 

 

Company: Blackhawk Corporation
Location: Clearwater, Florida
Period: 6/97 to 10/98
Title: Director, Media Management Solutions.
Comments: Leader & General Manager of Media Management Solutions, an autonomous strategic business unit of Blackhawk Corp. Built division from zero to staff of 4 and rate of $350K in annual revenues in less than 18 months. Services offered within this division include:
 
dot.gif (182 bytes) Internet Services: consulting, development, hosting, & marketing.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Digital Asset Management: web browser based digital asset management service promoting re-use & re-expression of digital asset investments across multiple projects and mediums in multiple locations.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Information Technology Consulting: ensuring that clients focus on problems and opportunities in light of strategic business objectives to determine investments in technology.
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Company: TeleVisual Communications, Inc. (TVC)
Location: Clearwater, Florida
Period: 6/96 to 6/97
Title: Director, New Media Development.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Developed, marketed, sold and maintained business systems that leverage the new dimensions in marketing, customer service, operations, and overall communications allowed by connectivity.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Developed, marketed, sold and maintained MedFacts web site. This interactive, learning discovery experience is the world's leading physician referral generator. Through strategic interactivity, grass roots marketing and public relations activity, this site experienced over 200,000 hits per month by 1996Q1 with NO advertising budget. Each of the 130+ physicians listed in this site's database received from 10 to 20 solid e-mail appointment leads per month.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Facilitated and coordinated strategy that will guide TVC into the next century as the world transitions from an economy centered on materials to one dependent on information. Incorporated connectivity into internal & external business processes at TVC, with a focus on increasing effectiveness, business partner integration, and customer satisfaction.
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Company: Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Period: 6/95 to 9/95
Title: Management Consultant, Telecommunications Center of Expertise.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Contributed significantly to a telecommunications strategy assessment for a major utilities holding company in the southeast; gathered pertinent data from multiple MIS sources, constructed analysis tools, and produced conclusions & recommendations in financial analysis of client's telecommunications operations.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Awarded Danny Corbett Fellowship by Deloitte & Touche Atlanta Management Consulting Practice in support of studies during 1995-1996 academic year.


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Company: Contel Cellular, A Division of GTE
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Period: 6/94 to 9/94
Title: Residential Sales Analyst, Financial Services Department.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Developed standardized procedures for adjusting delinquent cellular accounts with equipment purchased on an installment basis in 6 regional markets.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Monitored over 500 domestic residential cellular sales accounts to ensure correct adjustments for returned equipment.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Facilitated the recovery of over $100,000 in equipment and account charges on bad debt accounts in less than 4 months.


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Company: U. S. Army, 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
Period: 6/91 to 1/94
Title: Field Artillery Officer.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Directly responsible for the total welfare and management of a 50 person organization, and the tactical employment of over $3 million of equipment.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Supply and Financial Accountability Officer for a unit with over $10 million in physical assets, and a $150,000 annual budget to maintain these assets.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Led battery of 8 field artillery howitzers to best firing time in battalion at The National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, California.

dot.gif (182 bytes) Achieved distinction as Distinguished Honor Graduate of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Warfare School in Ft. Riley, Kansas.

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EDUCATION

School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Degree: Master of Science in Management, June 1996.
Areas of Concentration: Finance and Management of Information Technology.
Overall GPA: 3.92
Honors: Graduate Research Assistantship at Georgia Tech Research Institute Assisted in the project management of a $10 million contract with the U. S. Air Force to develop new radar technology. Developed & maintained intranet web site to facilitate internal communication and maximize revenues from ARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency) contracts.
Activities: West Point Society of Atlanta, Graduate Students of Management, Intramural Basketball & Softball.


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School: United States Military Academy
Location: West Point, New York
Degree: Bachelor of Science, with distinction, in Management and Systems Engineering, June 1991.
Overall GPA: 3.03
Major GPA: 3.67
Honors: Graduated on Dean's List.
Activities: Basketball, 1988-89, Volleyball, 1990-91.

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DEVELOPMENT

Strategically designed & managed the following development environment to service Internet Business Solutions within Media
Management Solutions @ Blackhawk Corp.
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dot.gif (182 bytes) WinNT fire wall - Axent / Raptor Fire Wall
dot.gif (182 bytes) WinNT mail server - MS Exchange 4.1
dot.gif (182 bytes) WinNT web staging server - MS IIS 4.0 w/ MS FrontPage '98 extensions, Allaire Cold Fusion App. Server 3.1
dot.gif (182 bytes) WinNT live web server - MS IIS 4.0 w/ MS FrontPage '98 extensions, Allaire Cold Fusion App. Server 3.1
dot.gif (182 bytes) WinNT database server - MS SQL 6.5, MS Access
dot.gif (182 bytes) WinNT stats server - WebTrends 4.01
dot.gif (182 bytes) 3 Win95 / Win98 Work Stations - Allaire Cold Fusion Dev. Studio, Allaire Home Site, Macromedia DreamWeaver, MS FrontPage, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe PageMaker, Quark Express, Netscape 4.x / 3.x, MSIE 4.x / 3.x, AOL 3.0.
dot.gif (182 bytes) 2 MacOS 8.1 PowerPCs - Macromedia DreamWeaver, Quark Express w/ Extensis DHTML add-on, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Image Ready, Adobe PageMaker, Aldus Freehand, Netscape 4.x / 3.x, MSIE 4.x / 3.x, AOL 3.0.

General Configuration:  Static web pages & simple forms processing served from www.domain.com via reseller account to leverage third party infrastructure and hold down internal capital & operating expenditures. Cold Fusion database driven pages served from www2.domain.com internally through CISCO 2500 & Frame Relay T-1 to UUNET to enable customization not allowed with third party hosting services.  DNS managed through reseller account. Stats de-compiled via WebTrends remote log file analysis.



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Education Links
- United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

 

 

Dev. Environments
- Win98
- Win95
- MacOS
- WinNT

 

 

Dev. Software
Cold Fusion
Mercantec [ Softcart ]
Intershop
Macromedia
- DreamWeaver
- Flash
Eudora Pro
WS_FTP Pro
Aureate Group Mail
WebTrends
Internet Explorer
Netscape Navigator
MS Office 2000
- Access
- FrontPage
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
MS Back Office
- WinNT
- SQL
- Exchange
Adobe
- PhotoShop
- Distiller
- Acrobat Viewer
- PageMill
- Illustrator
Freehand
Quark Express
WinZip
Stuff It

 

 

Dev. Languages
- HTML
- DHTML
- JavaScript
- SQL
- CFML
- XML
- PHP3
- Perl

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