IT Director, Author, Mentor, Entrepreneur
Greater Atlanta Area
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- Director IT at Wandering WiFi, LLC
- Founder and author at LoseFatNotFaith.com
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- Independent Associate: Director at USANA
- Director IT at Hispanicare (DrTango, Inc)
- Development Manager at Manhattan Associates
- Freelance Technology Writer at iSeries (Formerly News/400) Magazine
- System Analyst at Simione Central
- Programmer Analyst at Bankers Insurance Company
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Jeremy Likness’s Summary
I have over 14 years of industry expertise with over two decades of software development experience. As a software developer, architect, DBA, manager, and director, I've worked with multi-million dollar projects from conception to implementation and beyond. Recently I created a successful health and wellness business that was 99% Internet-based and ranked as one of the top sites through organic searches. I'm an entrepreneur and even when working with another company focus on an ownership-attitude with attention to the bottom line.
I'm not a typical "techie guy" who hides behind the keyboard. I've thrived in sales through building a network marketing organizing, growing my own health and wellness business and learning techniques to successfully market and sell over the Internet and through creative media such as podcasts and RSS feeds. I conducted several wellness workshops, produced an audio series, pioneered a podcast to drive traffic to my site and published a novel about healthy living that has been sold in over a dozen countries and remains a solid 5 out of 5 stars at Amazon.com.
I've been with companies through all stages of their lifecycle from starting my own home-based business to working with a company that went from 100 to 1000 employees and from private to public. I enjoy creating new projects and being involved in multiple aspects of the business. For those reasons, I'm very excited to partner with Wandering WiFi to build their technology infrastructure and be a part of the process of taking the company to new levels. For me, personally, it is the opportunity of a lifetime to work alongside very successful entrepreneurs to create a company that's great, not just "good."
Jeremy Likness’s Specialties:
Public speaking, coaching, and mentoring. All aspects of Wi-Fi wireless gateways from network and hardware to software and supporting technology. Building web-based applications (Everything from C#/.Net, PERL, Java and PHP to RPG/LE, C++, VisualBasic, and more). My motto - "If you need it, let me know, I'll get it. If I don't have it, I'll find it. If I can't find it, I'll build it." Live in the solution, not the problem!
Jeremy Likness’s Experience
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Director IT
Wandering WiFi, LLC
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
My first role Director of IT, I assisted with the creation of our first network, helped grow the infrastructure to support growth, and extended our operations into geographically disparate data centers. I had multiple responsibilities from visiting customer sites to configure and deploy wireless networks to performing technical customer service support. I helped us establish proprietary content filtering mechanisms, outgoing spam management, and custom hotspot solutions.
Now with the company 10x the size of employees from when I began I serve in a development management capacity over our wireless management application. This is a Web application on the .NET 3.5 framework using C# and AJAX and a SQL 2005 server back-end. Our application is n-tier based on the entity framework with a service-oriented (SOA) architecture. I am very muchs a hands-on manager who spends as much time hands-to-keyboard coding and testing as I do with design, infrastructure management, and mentoring. -
Founder and author
LoseFatNotFaith.com
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
June 2004 — Present (4 years 6 months)
Built content rich website; designed graphics, layouts, articles, advertisements, fitness tools, etc using PHP and JavaScript. My NaturalPhysiques.com website was ranked in the top percentile of all websites (Alexa ranking of 38,000 with 3,000+ unique daily visitors) prior to selling. Developed digital and hardcopy products ranging from CDs to books. Created residual income through sales of affiliate products, advertising, and other channels. Created top 10 search enginge rankings with high demand terms including "lose fat," "fat loss," "weight loss podcast," etc to generate daily qualified leads through organic search queries (i.e. not paid or sponsored links).
As a Certified Trainer and Specialist in Performance Nutrition and a life coach, consulted with clients to assist them with releasing fat. Produced multimedia (web pages, interactive tools, CDs) as well as telephone-based and live seminars to educate people about steps they can take to improve their health and lifestyle. -
Independent Associate: Director
USANA
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; USNA; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
November 2003 — May 2007 (3 years 7 months)
Network marketing literally changed my life. As an Independent USANA Associate, I learned to take charge of my own destiny by building relationships and helping others improve their health and wealth. It was an exciting doorway into my future as an entrepreneur. I continue to use USANA products every day and enjoy the residual income despite having been focused on other ventures at the present time.
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Director IT
Hispanicare (DrTango, Inc)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Managed and developed a major upgrade to web-based weight management software called MiDieta/MyDiet. Renovated the architecture to support separate database (SQL/2000/XML), business logic (VB 6.0/COM), and presentation tiers (XSLT), built a CMS to allow editors and nutritionists to update data without requiring software revisions (clientside JavaScript, HTML, and DHTML), designed a cache system to improve performance and scalability, built an image service and billing module to support marketing campaigns, created a customer relationship management module to track client activity and provide feedback mechanisms such as rating systems and referrals. Built the business and increased organizational capacity by introducing policies and procedures relating to disaster recovery, coding standards and guidelines, hardware and software procurement, purchase order requests, and implementation methodology. Initiated automated change request system and introduced revision control software.
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Development Manager
Manhattan Associates
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MANH; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 2002 (5 years)
Technical lead to a team of 4 developers building a multi-lingual, XML-based, distributed Internet transaction for supply chain visibility. The supported databases included iSeries (AS/400 - DB2/400), SQL/2000, and Oracle. IIS 5.0 using a combination of Visual Basic 6.0 and ATL COM+, VBScript, JavaScript, DHTML, T-SQL, XML, and XSLT. Automated several key phases of developoment lifecycle. Used ticket and revision tracking software (StarBase’s StarTeam) to automate progression of code from unit testing through the Quality Assurance (QA) environment and out to production servers. Used automation features of InstallShield™ software to package web updates for distribution to clients. Delivered a web-based tool to monitor inventory over geographically separated warehouses for customer. Involved polling separate iSeries databases and merging the data with SQL/2000 views to provide a global inventory perspective. Optimized database views for high performance and scalability.
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Freelance Technology Writer
iSeries (Formerly News/400) Magazine
(Publishing industry)
June 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 7 months)
Freelance author of various articles including "The Exterminator's Guide," a guide to troubleshooting technology (June 1, 1998) and "Callings the Plays: Strategies for Successful IS Team Management" (April 1, 1999).
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System Analyst
Simione Central
(Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
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Programmer Analyst
Bankers Insurance Company
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)
February 1994 — June 1996 (2 years 5 months)
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