Steve Schwartz

Current

CEO Guy at RateMyStudentRental, LLC
Web, Marketing, Business Development at Alfa Jango, LLC Software & Marketing
Owner, Sales at Fiesta Franks, LLC

Lead Guitar at Moment of Inertia
Mechanical / Electrical Engineering Intern at Bosch

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Past

Marketing Engineer at Acromag Inc
Salesperson, Cashier at Old Navy
Intern at Automotive Lighting

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Education

Kettering University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Steve

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126 connections

Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

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Steve Schwartz’s Summary

Strong proficiency and passion in brand development and strategic marketing with online and traditional media. Experienced in managing engineering and marketing development cycles and coordinating product testing with customers. Solid background in application design engineering and performance testing, with emphasis in mechanical and electrical aspects of motor and generator operation and electronic components.

Steve Schwartz’s Specialties:

Electrical engineering and design, mechanical engineering, marketing, branding and promotion strategy, product and market research, applications engineering, web development, programming, design

Steve Schwartz’s Experience

CEO Guy

RateMyStudentRental, LLC

(Internet industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Whether you're a student or landlord, sometimes you don't want to get screwed.

RateMyStudentRental connects students with rentals, and landlords with students to encourage an atmosphere of continuous improvement in the student rental market.
Web, Marketing, Business Development

Alfa Jango, LLC Software & Marketing

(Internet industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

Web and Marketing

We work with you to create a professional and unique identity for your unique business. We will help you to form a marketing initiative, plan events, and write press releases to connect your brand with your market.
The Web is our Domain

We can even handle the whole 9 yards, from brand creation to domain purchasing and web hosting to make your life simpler and free up your time to concentrate on running your business.
For the Tech-heads

We program using whatever is most appropriate for each project, using either Ruby on Rails or PHP with MySQL, or straight HTML with CSS for simple sites.

Infrastructure and Information Management

Once your company starts growing, you may find that your current methods of communication and information sharing (you do have some system, right?) aren't quite up to the task. We can help with that too!
Owner, Sales

Fiesta Franks, LLC

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Automotive industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

• Developed standardized inventory-tracking and shipping procedure for warehouse of used automotive parts
• Performed customer service tasks for sales and warranty replacement parts
Lead Guitar

Moment of Inertia

(Music industry)

October 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)

Playin Melodic Hard Rock throughout Southeastern Michigan. Debut CD coming in Winter 2009!
Mechanical / Electrical Engineering Intern

Bosch

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

August 2003 — Present (6 years)

• 2 ½ years working as an intern in the Product Development departments of Automotive Body Electronics, with main expertise in cooling fan and HVAC applications
• Utilize DOE methods to perform and complete several studies and written reports on topics including Armature-Assembly Balance Correlation, The Existence and Causes of Harmonics in Sound and Vibration, and The Use of Multiple Environmental Over-Stress Testing in Engine Cooling Fan Applications
• Assigned many Lean waste-reduction projects, such as designing and programming the A3 Database as a means of providing storage, archival, and a search interface for accessing A3 documents
• Acquired extensive experience with Dynamometers, Armature and Assembly Balancers, Thermal Chambers, and Noise and Vibration Equipment
• Developed and completed Thesis project on The Development of a Multi-dimensional Calculation Model for the Component Temperatures of Alternator Trade-off Curves
Marketing Engineer

Acromag Inc

(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

July 2008 — March 2009 (9 months)
Salesperson, Cashier

Old Navy

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)

June 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 1 month)

Facilitated sales through customer service and interaction
Intern

Automotive Lighting

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Automotive industry)

June 2001 — August 2001 (3 months)

Acquired experience using Photometric Test Equipment

Steve Schwartz’s Education

Kettering University

2003 — 2008

Additional Information

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Steve Schwartz’s Interests:

web design, marketing, branding, SCCA auto-crossing and racing, guitar, snowboarding, php, ruby on rails, gadgets and technology, networking, being connected, people

Steve Schwartz’s Groups:

IEEE, ASME, SAE, MENSA, SCCA, Ann Arbor SPARK, Digital Edge MI CEO's, Kettering Entrepreneur Society, WKUF-LP 94.3FM Flint Community Radio, Oakland Business Forum, Ann Arbor Web Tycoons, GLEQ