Entrepreneur, Architect, and Mentor
Greater Atlanta Area
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- Architect at Wandering WiFi, LLC
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- Founder and Author at Lose Fat, Not Faith
- Independent Associate: Director at USANA
- Director IT at DrTango
- Development Manager at Manhattan Associates
- Freelance Technology Writer at Penton Media
- System Analyst at CareCentric
- Programmer Analyst at Bankers Insurance Company
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Jeremy Likness’s Summary
I am an entrepreneur at heart. My field of expertise for the past 15 years has been technology, specifically software development, in various industries including insurance, health and wellness, supply chain management, Wi-Fi hotspots, mobile devices, and WLAN management.
I established my professional reputation as a software development expert through my role as development manager at Manhattan Associates in 1996 while working on custom code and enhancements for their flagship PkMS project and overseeing a team of developers. As Director of IT for Dr. Tango (Hispanicare) I was able to practice my Spanish-speaking skills while I grew our technology infrastructure to support a 250% increase in staff and served as architect for the next generation platform for our multilingual diet software built on top of a custom content management engine.
I founded an online health and wellness business in 2004 and was one of the first online fitness trainers to use podcasts to reach a broad audience through online blogs and fitness lessons. I produced and sold several CD sets internationally and published my book, "Lose Fat, Not Faith" which has sold thousands of copies in over a dozen countries around the world.
As development manager and architect for Wandering WiFi, I continue to help us grow and solidify our position as one of the leading wireless technology solution providers in the United States. I oversee the development of our product portfolio that includes HotSpot solutions and AirWatch™, a management console specific to managing enterprise grade wireless networks, mobile devices, and the users that rely on this environment to do their job. AirWatch™ is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built on Microsoft technologies that automatically monitors wireless networks and mobile devices, providing intelligent monitoring and automatic resolution of the issues that impact mobile users and / or information security.
Jeremy Likness’s Specialties:
Coaching, mentoring, architecture, infrastructure, design, execution, implementation, troubleshooting, process automation, management
Jeremy Likness’s Experience
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Architect
Wandering WiFi, LLC
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
I partnered with Chairman Alan Dabbiere (former CEO of Manhattan Associates, NASDAQ: MANH) and CEO John Marshall to build the corporate network infrastructure and scale it to support growth while extending our operations into geographically disparate data centers. I visited customer sites, configured and deployed wireless networks and provided 24/7 technical customer service support. I established proprietary content filtering mechanisms, outgoing spam management, and custom hotspot solutions while extending the core product line and growing the development team.
I currently serve primarily in a development management capacity over our wireless management application, streamlining our software development lifecycle and overseeing integration with Sharepoint and Team Foundation System. The application is N-Tier on the .NET Framework 3.5 stack with a service-oriented (SOA) architecture and Rich Internet Application (RIA) console with AJAX. I invest as much time hands-to-keyboard coding and testing as I do with designing, managing infrastructure, mentoring team members and growing our organization.
Wi-Fi (802.11x); SQL 2005; Windows Server 2003; AJAX; .NET Framework 3.5; WCF; C#; Team Foundation System 2008; SharePoint -
Founder and Author
Lose Fat, Not Faith
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
June 2004 — March 2009 (4 years 10 months)
Built content rich website; designed graphics, layouts, articles, advertisements, fitness tools, etc. My NaturalPhysiques.com website was ranked in the top percentile of all websites (per Alexa ranking with 3,000+ unique daily visitors) prior to sale. 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," to generate daily qualified leads through organic non-paid search queries.
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.
MySQL, PHP, SEO, Nucleus CMS, Coppermine, ClickBank -
Independent Associate: Director
USANA
(Public Company; USNA; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
November 2003 — May 2007 (3 years 7 months)
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 quickly rose to the level of Director before shifting my focus to use the skills I gained to build my own health and wellness business.
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Director IT
DrTango
(Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Reporting directly to the CEO, Roberto Estrada, and EVP (Dr. Dirk Schroeder), I managed and developed a major upgrade to web-based weight management software called MiDieta/MyDiet. Renovated the architecture to support separate database, business logic, and presentation tiers, built a CMS to allow nutrition editors to update data without requiring software revisions, 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
Penton Media
(Privately Held; PTON; 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
CareCentric
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
System Analyst, was formerly called "Simione Central"
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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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Jeremy Likness’s Honors:
B.E.S.T. Excellence award, Bankers Insurance Company, 1994
Personal Trainer of the Month, ISSA, 2004
Real Fitness Expert, RealFitnessExperts.com, 2005
World Talk Radio Interview with Dave DePew, 2005
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