2002 - present
Thane International, Inc. - Internet Specialist
La Quinta, California
Perform routine maintenance on www.thane.com website. Create, maintain, and provide technical support for www.thaneinc.com and various other websites as assigned. Assist with systems administration duties. Design and implement Internet advertising creative for products in the form of banners, pop-ups, HTML emails, and product landing pages. Seek out, negotiate, and implement media advertising deals with other companies. Recruit web site owners as affiliates to our reseller programs. Perform other duties as assigned.

2000 - present
Self Employed
Design and implement websites and Internet advertising creative on a contractual basis. Provide IT consulting, hosting, domain name management, software/hardware purchasing and installation for private clients. Click here for the portfolio.

2003 - 2004
YouCanSave.Com - Internet Specialist
Wholly Owned Subsidary of Thane International, Inc.
Hayward, California
Found, negotiated, and implemented media advertising deals with other companies on a CPA, CPC, and CPM basis. These deals helped to make more than $1,000,000 dollars for YouCanSave. Worked with their Direct Track affiliate tracking system in order to monitor, analyze, and report on the profitability of all advertising deals. Managed a large database of creative ranging from emails to pop-ups and banners both locally and through Direct Track. Kept good relations with advertising partners. Established a new, customized, and more effective affiliate program through Kowabunga Technologies that was tailored to YouCanSave.Com's specific needs. Performed routine maintenance on YouCanSave.Com website including but not limited to adding, editing, and removing products in the backend and frontend. Created, maintained, and provided technical support for various other websites as needed. Provided domain name consulting and management. Performed other duties as assigned.

2001 - 2002
Inco Services, Inc. - Construction Worker
Columbus, Georgia
Construction worker in the laydown supply yard of a large-scale natural gas power plant building project. Unloaded truck shipments of building materials and maintained detailed inventory of all material. Large-scale waste removal. Ensure proper handling, storage, and on-site delivery of both hazardous and non-hazardous building material. Trained on and operated forklifts, bulldozers, backhoes, dump trucks, truck-cranes, and various other heavy equipment. Trained on proper safety practices.

1999 - 2000
Texas School for the Deaf - Night Residential Educator
Austin, Texas
Provided overnight supervision and counseling for troubled residential high school students in a dorm setting. Ensured proper and strict observance of daily morning rituals including medication, personal hygiene, and household duties. Escorted and supervised students en-route to school, and maintained strict documentation of all student activities.

1997 - 1998
Richmond High School - Intermediary Interpretor
Richmond, California
Provided assistance to Deaf high school students as an intermediary interpreter. Provided tutoring in all subjects of study as well as homework assistance. Provided extracurricular and social development activities. Provided supervision on school-sponsored field trips.

1994 - 1995
Texana Place (TDMHMR) - Relief Staff
Austin, Texas
Relieved and/or substituted for permanent employees who provide ongoing assistance to Deaf developmentally-disabled clients during various shifts. Monitored client medical intake and taught basic math, social skills, and home economics. Provided transportation and supervision for field trips and maintained strict documentation of all client activities.

Web Programming:
HTML, CSS, and enough of PHP/MySQL, CGI/Perl, Javascript, and ASP to be able to install, configure, and work with most existing scripts

Software:
	Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (Includes Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Freehand) on PC and OS X
	Adobe Creative Suite (Includes PhotoShop CS, Illustrator CS, Indesign CS, GoLive CS, Acrobat 6.0 Pro) on PC and OS X
	Microsoft Office 2003 (Includes Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, and PowerPoint) on PC, Microsoft Office 2004 (Includes Word, Excel, and Publisher) on OS X
	Web-based business, technical and general applications including Direct Track, MyAP, Manticore Technology, MSN Merchant, Amazon Seller Central, Ebay, Arrow Software, and many more
	Internet & e-mail applications including but not limited to IE, Netscape, Opera, Outlook, Eudora, ICQ, AOL/AIM, mIRC, various archive software (ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZ, etc.), various FTP/SSH/Telnet software, various anti-spam and ad-blocking software, and various newsgroup readers
	Willing and able to learn more software

Hardware:
Can service and configure most PC and G4 systems and accompanying hardware with no trouble

Other:
Systems and database analysis & design (including cost analysis and proposal), documentation, inventory tracking and management, factory construction material warehouse/laydown yard storage and handling, non-certified forklift, backhoe, dump truck and small crane flagman/operator