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Co-owner and responsible for day to day operations and vision of the product, including development, sales, marketing, and community management.Responsible for the entire business strategy and leading the execution of that strategy.Focused on building a culture of cultivating raving fans, not customers.Led and implemented a brand refresh strategy across all mediums.Built and grew a successful commission-based partner program from scratch.Increased company earnings by 161% YOY.Increased community and pre-sales activity by 2400% and 462% respectively.Increased social engagement YOY on - Twitter by 80%- Facebook by 83%- LinkedIn by 300%Increased email distribution list by 119% YOY.Led a distributed team of marketers, UX/designers, project managers, senior developers and QA resources across 4 offices and time zones.

Responsible for vetting incoming incubator requests and proposals.Mentoring of existing and prospective innovation personnel and projects.Leader of brand development and innovation process.Assist in development of innovation concepts from idea, to launch.Development of incubator and project processes, and execution.

Responsible for overseeing the multi-million dollar training program and instructors to ensure that customers, partners, and employees are productive with DotNetNuke. Leading a team of Sales Engineers, Trainers, & Product Evangelists to support the organizational needs to acquire and retain customers for the world's most popular content management system on the Microsoft stack. Primary responsibility is to exceed the revenue goals of the organization and ensure that it continues on the year over year growth trajectory that landed the company on the Inc. 500 list.Assisting the sales team at DotNetNuke Corporation and all organizations in the partner program with technical questions, training, and demos. This included on-site demonstrations, proofs of concept, and more. Built the Sales Engineer team, created and maintained presales process.Building value propositions around the platform, its features, and benefits. Generating fully scripted presentations, websites, and demonstrations for others to perform.Managed the user group program. Ensured that user groups, user group leaders, and prospective members have the support that they needed.Community management. Assisted new and existing members in the community with support, questions, and helped unite them with others in the community to build lasting online relationships, facilitating overall community growth.Public speaking. Performed countless presentations around the country on DotNetNuke, its features, how to develop against it, and much more. Generated online video presentations for re-use and redistribution via YouTube and Vimeo.Webinars. Continually created, hosted, and presented marketing-centric webinars for the web seminar program to highlight the value proposition of DotNetNuke, thought leadership on various CMS-related topics, and hosted webinars with 3rd parties.

Leading a team of Sales Engineers & Evangelists to support the organizational needs to acquire and retain customers for the world's most popular content management system on the Microsoft stack. Primary responsibility is to exceed the revenue goals of the organization and ensure that it continues on the year over year growth trajectory that landed the company on the Inc. 500 list.Assisting the sales team at DotNetNuke Corporation and all organizations in the partner program with technical questions, training, and demos. This included on-site demonstrations, proofs of concept, and more. Built the Sales Engineer team, created and maintained presales process.Building value propositions around the platform, its features, and benefits. Generating fully scripted presentations, websites, and demonstrations for others to perform.Training Sales Engineers, new hires, and sales team members on product knowledge, sales techniques, overall CMS knowledge, and competitive knowledge.Evaluated and assisted in strategic plans through competitive analysis.Managed the user group program. Ensured that user groups, user group leaders, and prospective members have the support that they needed.Community management. Assisted new and existing members in the community with support, questions, and helped unite them with others in the community to build lasting online relationships, facilitating overall community growth.Public speaking. Performed countless presentations around the country on DotNetNuke, its features, how to develop against it, and much more. Generated online video presentations for re-use and redistribution via YouTube and Vimeo.Webinars. Continually created, hosted, and presented marketing-centric webinars for the web seminar program to highlight the value proposition of DotNetNuke, thought leadership on various CMS-related topics, and hosted webinars with 3rd parties.

Assisting the sales team at DotNetNuke Corporation and all organizations in the partner program with technical questions, training, and demos. This included on-site demonstrations, proofs of concept, and more. Built the Sales Engineer team, created and maintained presales process.Building value propositions around the platform, its features, and benefits. Generating fully scripted presentations, websites, and demonstrations for others to perform.Training new hires and sales team members on the platform, sales techniques, and overall CMS knowledge.Evaluated and assisted in strategic plans through competitive analysis.Managed the user group program. Ensured that user groups, user group leaders, and prospective members were able to have the support that they needed.Community management. Assisted new and existing members in the community with support, questions, and helped unite them with others in the community to build lasting online relationships, facilitating overall community growth.Public speaking. Performed countless presentations around the country on DotNetNuke, its features, how to develop against it, and much more. Generated online video presentations for re-use and redistribution via YouTube and Vimeo.Webinars. Continually created, hosted, and presented marketing-centric webinars for the web seminar program to highlight the value proposition of DotNetNuke, thought leadership on various CMS-related topics, and hosted webinars with 3rd parties.

The Vice President of the Orlando .Net User Group assists the President with all duties to organize and execute monthly events to connect and inform .Net developers in the Orlando area. This position also includes assisting the President and ONETUG board in organizing and executing the annual Orlando Code Camp, which boasts 500+ attendees from around the state.

The President of the Orlando DotNetNuke® Users Group provides monthly opportunities to connect various developers, skinners, users, and service providers of DotNetNuke® to one another through meetings. This position leads this effort and also plans an annual one-day convention boasting 200+ attendees from various countries for free.

- Oversaw and executed the rollout of the company’s website launch from conception- Helped to determine the company’s business plan and direction- Responsible for all technology projects and activities within the organization, and aligning them with business needs and goals- Instrumental in planning the company’s social media marketing strategies- Managed the web and SQL servers, and employee workstations (software & hardware)- Planned the architecture and development of the company website, using DotNetNuke- Developed many of the DNN modules, and all of the providers and business tier APIs- Trained and managed the company’s designers and programmers- Functioned as the primary hiring manager for the company, finding candidates & conducting interviews

Provider of end-to-end website solutions for small and medium business and provided support for various website consultancies.

- Maintained the web servers & SQL Server 2005 for the entire school districts on Windows Server 2003- Supervised 42 district websites for quality & content using FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and DotNetNuke- Managed and mentored over 70 school webmasters and department webmasters- Implemented a Google Mini Appliance with DotNetNuke- Performed individual, workshop, and class training on using and implementing DotNetNuke- Wrote district policies involving web development- Introduced teacher web pages to the district- Upgraded the entire district from a mixed ASP and PHP environment to ASP.Net 2.0

- Duties included all facets of Windows/web programming, including current and future planning/development/deployment for server and web development, and management of projects- Responsible for maintaining the corporate intranet websites and regular maintenance of the web server operating system, IIS, file/directory permissions, and all other related server maintenance- Database administrator of SQL Server 2000, including database/data maintenance, Reporting Services- Managed ongoing support through training and created training materials for employees, technical support staff, and fellow programmers- Evaluated software (mostly web-based) and provided purchase recommendations & alternate solutions- Projects include: Wine Consultant Messaging System (CRM), Ticket System, Web Portal (CMS), Google Mini Appliance implementation

Responsible for the creation, maintenance and feature enrichment of a custom-built Intranet portal that served functionality to all departments in the organization. This included integrating with custom applications that ran on AS/400 and IBM iSeries servers. As an example, I was able to increase the productivity of stores and departments like inventory control by allowing them to manage auto-replenishment. Other departments like the technical support staff were able to be highly productive for on-site and off-site maintenance issues through a custom built help desk application as well.

Responsible for the creation, maintenance and feature enrichment of a custom-built Intranet portal that served functionality to all departments in the organization. This included integrating with custom applications that ran on AS/400 and IBM iSeries servers. As an example, I was able to increase the productivity of stores and departments like inventory control by allowing them to manage auto-replenishment. Other departments like the technical support staff were able to be highly productive for on-site and off-site maintenance issues through a custom built help desk application as well.

I kept track of and maintained a load plan for anything that had a serial number. This included weapons, vehicles, equipment, people, and more. It was my responsibility to ensure that the unit was ready to be on-site in a far away land within 72 hours if we needed to.

I kept track of and maintained a load plan for anything that had a serial number. This included weapons, vehicles, equipment, people, and more. It was my responsibility to ensure that the unit was ready to be on-site in a far away land within 72 hours if we needed to.

I kept track of and maintained a load plan for anything that had a serial number. This included weapons, vehicles, equipment, people, and more. It was my responsibility to ensure that the unit was ready to be on-site in a far away land within 72 hours if we needed to.