
CEO of MWI, Search Engine Optimization & Web Design
Greater Salt Lake City Area

CEO of MWI, Search Engine Optimization & Web Design
Greater Salt Lake City Area
Since 1999 I've owned and managed MWI, a firm providing search engine optimization, web development (mostly content management systems), and high-end web design from offices in Salt Lake City, Utah to clients in California, New York, Virginia, Boston, Reno, Utah, and Idaho. Clients include 3Com, Altiris, Bank of American Fork, Brighton Ski Resort, Connect Magazine, Extra Space Storage, FranklinCovey, Garage Technology Ventures, Hubble Homes, Sony, Sorenson Capital, the law firm of Strong & Hanni, Wasatch Venture Fund, Utah's Hogle Zoo, and Zions Bank.
I am currently working on a side project called The SEO Consultants that will provide high-end search engine optimization services to customers with budgets in the sub-$500/month range.
I'm originally from Arcadia, California, near Los Angeles.
advertising, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, web design, web development, branding, marketing, web hosting, intranet, portal, ecommerce, content management, system integration, interface design, usability, media buying, lds, brazil, manaus, portuguese, flash, programming, .net, php, jsp, sql, mysql, asp.net, linux, website design, website development, business process reengineering, internet marketing, skateboard, snowboard, writing, consultant, graphic design, laundromat
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 1999 — Present (10 years )
MWI provides search engine optimization (SEO), web development, and high-end web design services. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, MWI works with clients nationwide.
For more info visit www.mwi.com.
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(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years )
I occasionally write for Connect Magazine, a print magazine focused on business and technology in the state of Utah.
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(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; OMTR; Computer Software industry)
August 1999 — December 1999 (5 months)
I worked at Omniture back when it was MyComputer.com and was just getting started (I believe I was employee #22 or something like that). I was a college student, worked on various web design projects for their internal sites, but within five months of getting that job decided I wanted to start my own business which I've been doing ever since.
(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)
May 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 5 months)
This was a summer job while I was in college. I provided tech support to doctors and nurses at several hospitals via phone and network and performed backup and system maintenance duties on weekends. I worked with mostly legacy systems like Tandem, AS/400, and about 10 others I can't remember now and which I hope they no longer use.
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Religious Institutions industry)
September 1994 — October 1996 (2 years 2 months)
Served in the Amazon basin region of Brazil as a full-time missionary at my own expense for two years. Learned how to speak Portuguese fluently, relate to other cultures, and work with ad-hoc teams of young men and women from diverse backgrounds.
Masters , Information Systems Managment, Business Strategy , September 2000 — April 2002
Bachelors , Information Systems Management , January 1998 — August 2000
Associates , General Business , 1994 — 1997
Entrepreneurship, business in general, venture capital and investing, web development and design, marketing and advertising, search engine optimization and marketing, technology in general, skateboarding, snowboarding, reading, drawing.
Mountain West Venture Group
Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum
Corporate Alliance
Association for Corporate Growth
Utah Valley Management Society - Board Member
The Breakfast Club
Draper Chamber of Commerce
2008, 2007, 2005 - vSpring v100 Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs
2002 - #25 Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum, Top Twenty-Five Under Five Fastest Growing Businesses
2002 - Utah Small Business Association Young Entrepreneur of the Year
2001 - 1st Place Brigham Young University Business Plan Competition