
as SEO Joe at PowerfulCMS
Australia

as SEO Joe at PowerfulCMS
Australia
My experience is in online sales, marketing, IT integration working for some of the largest companies in the world -- Dell Computers and Microsoft Corporation. I am a business owner at heart, currently the Managing Director at PowerfulCMS and SEOJoe. Powerful CMS, helps successful offline sales businesses with a small web presence that have goals to increase online market penetration integrate various online business systems into one simple system that will make dealing with your business easy and efficient. As SEOJoe, I help small business owners who are currently frustrated with their Google Adwords, Yahoo or MSN Pay Per Click (PPC) costs, out market the competition and dominate their niche in all online natural search results.
At past places of employment I have a track record for driving process improvements – Dell, Microsoft and most recently Pacific Brands (owners of Bonds, Berlei, Jockey, Sheridan, etc). In addition to an MBA, I am Google AdWords certified, Microsoft certified engineer (MCSE), Novell certified engineer (CNE) and partially certified as an Oracle DBA OCP (OCP).
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
SEOJoe helps small business owners who are currently frustrated with their Google Adwords, Yahoo or MSN Pay Per Click (PPC) costs, out market the competition and dominate their niche in all online natural search results.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by one or more of the following online business dilemmas, we can help you.
Do you have a successful offline sales business with a small web presence, but very few online sales? If your current online revenue component is less than 5% of your total business, we’ll help you to quadruple your online penetration.
Is your web business confusing everyone with too many separate systems? We’ll integrate all of your various systems into one simple system that will make dealing with your business easy and efficient.
Are you paying too much for proprietary CMS and looking for a way to reduce costs? Working with Drupal opensource technology, we’ll help you to reduce your proprietary CMS costs by 80% and increase functionality by 300%!
Are you a graphic designer wanting to realise your designs in Drupal? Have you been hearing how Drupal is benefiting other designers? We’ll bring your designs alive with pixel perfect accuracy in all web browsers.
(Public Company; PBG; Consumer Goods industry)
December 2004 — May 2007 (2 years 6 months)
At Pacific Brands I was responsible for managing a software development team of 30 developers with skills in mid range, client server technologies, business intelligence and Oracle database technologies. I was also responsible for enforcement of IT governance, project scheduling, change management, and resource allocation for a team of 60 IT professionals.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — July 2004 (10 months)
At Microsoft I was responsible to the Home and Entertainment division for transition of application and database support operations from Redmond, Singapore and Dublin to Hyderabad. Applications included online sales, support and internal application using Microsoft technologies. We grew a team from two to twelve support analysts and transitioned 70% of support offshore.
(Public Company; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 4 months)
At Dell, I was responsible for the Online Sales and Marketing divisions for premier.dell.com and dell.com databases, during a period where online revenues soared from $5 million per day to $60 million per day. I led the team that designed and developed database code for web click analysis, up sell opportunities, daily sales target tracking, competitor pricing (spiders), online coupon code management while being accountable to management for database uptime (99.9%), and performance of Microsoft SQL servers. Working with Microsoft, my team contributed toward the feature set for Yukon (currently known as Microsoft SQL 2005).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)
July 1997 — July 2000 (3 years 1 month)
I was responsible to the Sales and Marketing division for designing, developing and administering Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases. Responsibilities included data analysis, SQL optimization, database performance tuning and support. I was part of a team of 50 DBAs that managed 400 Oracle databases and 50 SQL servers including participating in a rotational weekly 7x24 support. As a part of the engineering team, I was responsible for many emerging technologies (clustering, OPS, OFS) and setup of standard repeatable processes for database administration, tuning and support.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; FMG; Medical Devices industry)
February 1994 — July 1997 (3 years 6 months)
During this period I was responsible for client support, network server administration and support for the company PBX. Novell was the primary file, print and application server. I contributed to the analysis, design, installation of a Novell Network Directory Service (NDS), DHCP, WINS server, while developing applications that supported the manufacturing operation.
MBA , Management , 1998 — 2001
BS , Information Technology , 1994 — 1996
BS , Computer Science , 1988 — 1991
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Nominated to United States National Dean’s List in spring 1995.
Completed high school as valedictorian in Doha, Qatar.