
Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner at Examiner.com
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner at Examiner.com
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
As the owner/operator of Plunder, LLC, I earn an income via search engine marketing and search engine optimization to gain affiliate income via Amazon and other online products and services.
I also create content for various websites covering a range of topics.
With 12 years experience in corporate America, working with Fortune 500 firms such as Charles Schwab and Chicago Title & Trust, along with internships at Honeywell, Anheuser-Busch and Capital Holding Corporation, I've gained extensive knowledge in a variety of industries.
My strong suit is in the area of technical support, where I blossomed as a software quality assurance tester who worked closely with developers and project managers to help bring software installations and upgrades in on time with as few bugs as possible.
My specialities include blogging and freelance writing and all aspects of earning a living, driving traffic and increasing pageviews to websites in this new Web 2.0 world...
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
http://www.examiner.com/x-22153-Cleveland-Pop-Culture-Examiner
(Internet industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)
Plunder, LLC is a publishing company.
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
August 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 9 months)
Researched popular news stories and trends, interviewed subjects and created popular online articles for Google News content -- the sum of which have received 1.8 million pagevews and counting...
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
May 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 8 months)
Contributing Editor for TNT Publications, a firm that produces Cleveland and Akron Family magazines, among others.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SCHW; Financial Services industry)
May 2004 — December 2004 (8 months)
During my second tenure at Charles Schwab, I rejoined the Schwab Technology Department -- wherein I ensured the quality of software releases, including TrustMark's daily valuation product, as well as implementing a major installatio of the PostX email confirmation program.
Working closely with Charles Schwab software developers, I once again gained extensive experience in the IEEE flow of application installations, program debugging, SQL queries and analyzation and more.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)
June 2000 — April 2001 (11 months)
Performed technical support function using TrustMark's 3Daily Valuation program for 401(k) clients and in-house staff. Created report extract programs using TrustMark's TBOL programming language to assist in proper daily plan valuations.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SCHW; Financial Services industry)
1996 — April 2000 (4 years )
Joining Charles Schwab Retirement Plan Services on November 11, 1996, I excelled from an Account Manager position -- wherein I continued to gain extensive 401(k) ERISA knowledge such as compliance testing, account management and the link -- into the technical arena as a Quality Assurance / Technical Support employee.
Providing technical assistance and report-writer extraction programs using TBOL software, I aided hundreds of in-house Schwab employees in improving their work flow and productivity -- a benefit passed on to numerous clients.
(Publishing industry)
1991 — 1993 (2 years )
Bachelor of Science , Business Administration , 1985 — 1990
Search Engine Marketing, Amazon Arbitrage, Google Adwords Advertising