President / CEO at Media Rake, Inc.
Greater Chicago Area
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- President / CEO at Media Rake, Inc.
- Past
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- COO at LuvCharlie Corporation
- CIO at Timebandits, LLC
- Network Administrator / Operations Specialist at Hutchinson-Ifrah Financial Services, Inc.
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Cruz
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Garland Binns’s Summary
Garland William Binns III is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Media Rake, Inc. Under Garland’s leadership, Media Rake has grown from a small design and consulting boutique to a revolutionary digital landscape architecture firm specializing in technology infrastructure, helping businesses and professionals efficiently develop and execute strategic decisions with confidence.
Garland and his firm have grown Media Rake by building new solutions internally, making cardinal acquisitions, and establishing vital relationships with key technology partners. With operations all across the United States and in many foreign countries, Media Rake helps customers protect and cultivate their infrastructure, information, and interactions by delivering unique and customized services that address all of their technology needs.
Prior to joining Media Rake, Garland spent over 12 years designing, developing, and implementing technology solutions for both businesses and professionals. He has held several administrative positions overseeing and fostering technology growth in a number of market sectors including two long periods in both the financial and retail service industries. Garland is a pioneer dedicated to seeding Media Rake and its clients with new opportunities for growth and development in the 21st century.
Garland Binns’s Specialties:
Software, Technology, Applications, Web Development, Email Marketing, ERP, CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Software, Enterprise Software, Technology Applications, Business Services, Enterprise Services, Management Tools, Management Software, Management Solutions, Human Resource Software, Enterprise Asset Management
Garland Binns’s Experience
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President / CEO
Media Rake, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Responsible for total management of organization, focusing on working with clients to shape the way they use technologies, cultivating new revenue streams for businesses, and seeding them with new opportunities for growth.
Media Rake, Inc. specializes in technology infrastructure, helping businesses and professionals efficiently develop and execute strategic decisions with confidence. -
COO
LuvCharlie Corporation
(Retail industry)
August 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 6 months)
Managed and monitored daily operations. Focused on strategic, tactical, and short-term operations management. Ensured that business operations were efficient and effective. Created and maintained a positive flow of work. Organized resources such as facilities and employees to ensure effective production of goods and services. Responsible for the development, design, operation, and improvement of all systems that created and delivered products and services.
LuvCharlie is the largest online boutique for women. -
CIO
Timebandits, LLC
(Wholesale industry)
January 2004 — December 2004 (1 year )
Responsible for information technology and computer systems. Was a key contributor in formulating strategic goals. Proposed the information technology needed to achieve goals and worked within a budget to implement the plan. Involved with analyzing and reworking existing business processes, with identifying and developing the capability to use new tools, with reshaping physical infrastructure and network access, and with identifying and exploiting knowledge resources. Integrated the Internet and World Wide Web into both long-term strategy and immediate business plans.
Timebandits is an international watch manufacturer. -
Network Administrator / Operations Specialist
Hutchinson-Ifrah Financial Services, Inc.
(Financial Services industry)
January 2001 — April 2004 (3 years 4 months)
Responsible for the maintenance of computer hardware and software that comprised the computer network. Deployed, configured, maintained, and monitored active network equipment. Concentrated on overall health of the network, server deployment, security, ensuring network connectivity throughout the LAN/WAN infrastructure, and all other technical considerations at the network level of technical hierarchy. Worked with the COO to design and deploy networks. Performed network address assignments, assignments of routing protocols and routing table configurations as well as configurations of authentication and authorization through active directory services. Maintained network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers. Maintained domain controllers, file servers, VPN gateways, backups, and intrusion detection systems.
Hutchinson-Ifrah Financial Services, Inc. is a mid-size registered investment advisory firm.
Garland Binns’s Education
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University of California, Santa Cruz
BA , Theater Arts
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Garland Binns’s Interests:
Solutions, Services, Software, Technology, Applications, Web Development, Email Marketing, Tools, Management Applications, ERP, SCM, PLM, SRM, CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Resource Management, Supply Chain Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Suite, Business, Enterprise, Business Solutions, Business Software, Enterprise Solutions, Enterprise Software, Business Software Solutions, Enterprise Business Software, Enterprise Business Software Solutions, All-in-One, Partners, Network, Analysis, Industry, Technology Applications, Business Software Application, Business Services, Enterprise Services, Management Tools, Management Software, Management Solution, Human Resource Software, Warehousing Solution, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Asset Management, Analysis Tool, Industry Solutions, Industry Software
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PAWS Chicago
