
President at De Veritate, LLC
Columbus, Ohio Area

President at De Veritate, LLC
Columbus, Ohio Area
Web Developer and Network Administrator with a wide variety of experience specializing in data efficiency and organization. Focus on large, creative projects requiring the assimilation of new or tangential knowledge sets.
Data analysis, efficiency and organization, blogging and CMS software, open source software solutions, and research competency.
(Real Estate industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
• Coordinated purchase and renovation of a coworking space in downtown Columbus.
• Was involved in all aspects of business development, including financing, outfitting, management, accounting and legal coordination.
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
• Managing front and back-end infrastructure for a variety of sites: elitistjerks.com chief among them.
• Establishing advertising partnership with GamerDNA.
• Ongoing business development including new market analysis and project development.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Religious Institutions industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
• Overhauling network infrastructure including 2 new client machines (1 desktop, 1 laptop), switch upgrade to 100Mbit, and a new Dell PowerEdge file server with 500GB of RAID1 storage capacity.
• Successfully auditing Microsoft Office and Windows XP licensing.
• Migrating web hosting to a CentOS 4.5 dedicated LAMP web server utilizing Plesk Control Panel.
• Completely redesigning and recoding the Brethren Church website at http://brethrenchurch.org into a full-fledged CMS powered by WordPress.
• Successfully implementing other tangential features to the website including online form submission and e-mail mailing lists.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)
• Implementing new Subversion repository based on its own Ubuntu Linux server complete with training for developers.
• Installing and configuring numerous additional source code management tools including Mantis (issue-tracker), which also included migration from BugZilla, and TWiki (corporate wiki).
• Rolling all new tools into a new corporate intranet based off of the source code server.
• Branding all new tools with company-centric imagery.
• Scheduling backup jobs of all critical data via custom-written Bash scripts.
• Assisting with day-to-day duties in the IT department.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)
• Updating numerous client websites with various structural and content-oriented changes; notable clients include: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus Museum of Art, Gallagher Consulting Group.
• Crafting several corporate-level weblogs for executive presence, including: Columbus Museum of Art (http://columbusmuseum.org/about/blog/), Ohio Business Development Coalition (http://www.ohiomeansbusiness.com), IACC (http://iacc.org).
• Editing mockups and other general web graphic content with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and, in many instances, creating said assets from scratch.
• Crafting client e-mail newsletter templates for mass-distribution to opt-in mailing lists.
• Building out several prominent websites from graphic mockups in W3C-compliant CSS and XHTML; notable clients include: Columbus Museum of Art, American Community Gardening Association.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
April 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 10 months)
• Serving as Help Desk for employees encountering hardware and software issues.
• Spearheading initiative to replace several servers and all client machines. This included researching and configuring ten Dell PowerEdge rackmount servers for use with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, corporate intranet, firewall, Progress server, Syteline server, file server, fax server, and 2 terminal servers as well as approximately 50 individual PCs running Microsoft Windows XP.
• Developing corporate intranet utilizing Movable Type and phpBB for corporate announcements, file archiving and documentation, and round-the-clock shift communication.
• Leading analysis and reorganization of data on the file server to enhance efficiency and ease of use.
• Researching and assisting in the implementation of a 60 ft. industrial antenna for a P2P 3/1.5Mbit wireless internet connection.
• Generating several national-level presentations highlighting the benefits of lean manufacturing.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Music industry)
April 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 1 month)
• Researching, building, and configuring professional music workstations.
• Administering technical support for professional music hardware and software.
• Installing music education computer labs for public and private schools.
• Developing custom eBay templates for use in the Advanced Technologies department.
B.A. , Philosophy / Religion , 2003 — 2006
Successfully earned a grade of "High Pass" for senior Philosophy oral defense entitled "Divine Providence & Timelessness."
Biblical Literature 1998 — 2002
1994 — 1998