
Web Entrepreneur
Greater Los Angeles Area

Web Entrepreneur
Greater Los Angeles Area
I am highly motivated with a strong technical background and great communication skills. I work with small business owners to grow their businesses by providing them online presence, IT infrastructure and marketing guidance.
Web Dev, Linux, Hosting, Merchant Services, Marketing Strategies (Guerrilla and Online)
(Information Services industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
We provide online presence and point of sales for small businesses. We build comprehensive websites suited for all industries, with unlimited pages, photos, videos and music. Web hosting is also included with unlimited space & bandwidth. Ecommerce is also provided through Zencart. Full integration provided as well with UPS, USPS, Fedex and Authorize.net payment gateway, linked to merchant account. We also process credit cards through Source One, Chase Paymentech, and First Data.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)
Technical sales and marketing for Sudjam's shared web hosting division, Renderhosting. I utilized various avenues to gain leads and conversions. I used techniques including cold calling, word-of-mouth, craigslist, meetup, business networking events, online message boards, etc. I installed and set up Ultimate Affiliate, linking it to ModernBill. I tracked progress via company wiki and spreadsheets. I also provided technical help to clients and prospect clients to allow them for a smooth migration from their servers onto Renderhosting's servers.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)
Projects for Gold Zeppelin included clients such as SIBF (Society of International Business Fellows), KFLA (Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance), etc. Migration of CMS (Content Management System) from Sungard EXPWeb version 4 to 5, and to DotNetNuke. Installation, Integration and Customization of Ecommerce solutions in .NET and PHP. Wrote custom applications for CMS in .NET C# with MS SQL Server (ie. profile updater, itinerary application, form builder addons, etc.)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — March 2007 (5 months)
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) work on automotive parts directories by applying external and internal methods. Automated submission of all individual pages to search engines and directories and manual submission to popular directories. Analysis on Urchin statistics, Googlebot visits, Alexa rank, Google PageRank, Page Rank, Keyword suggestions from trends, backlinks, keyword density, keyword positioning. Applied SEO to automotive directories and sites via applying techniques to titles, headers, metatags, body, etc. Used Apache's Mod_Rewrite with regular expressions to rewrite existing pages to be search engine friendly. Fetched data from MySQL database with PHP and used Mod_Rewrite to create automotive parts pages solely for search engines to pick up.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — February 2007 (9 months)
Custom built web servers from individual hardware and installed and configured Linux CentOS and WHM/cPanel on them. Created web solutions for hosted clients and managed websites from existing clients. Also helped installed and managed web hosting servers and hardware at the CalPop datacenter.
Football, WWE, Film, Music, Fashion, Upcoming Trends, Beach, Robert Greene
ExecTec, LA Small Business Owners Meetup, LA LAMP, LA Smart Marketing