web, hardware, and software engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Sales Lead Capture, Web Engineer at Apple, inc.
- Freelance PHP/MySQL/iPhone development at self employed (Self-employed)
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- President of the Board of Directors at Works/San Jose
- Member of the Board of Directors at Works/San Jose
- Co-Founder at Clinks, Inc.
- PHP Programmer at Pearson Branded
- Web Programmer at Cgrafx
- Visual Design Lead at Cycore, Puppettime
- Print Production Designer at CKS
- Print Production Designer at CKS, USWeb/CKS, marchFIRST
- print production designer at USWeb/CKS
- Quality Assurance Engineer: Photoshop at Adobe Systems
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Steve Cooley’s Summary
While programming has been the focus of my work experience since 2000, It's always been tied to marketing. I like both. :) I've learned a lot about outbound marketing, channel sales, and sales support. I've also made some good progress working cross-functionally with other major teams within my company to get problems solved.
My experience with the non-profit I do work for has been much wider in breadth. I've been leading a big organizational technology upgrade for collaboration tools, helping to facilitate open channels of communication between the executive committee and the board of directors as a whole. I've also been learning a lot about leadership, making hard decisions, begging people to get involved, having people tell me they're leaving the organization, attending meetings with the city of San Jose's redevelopment agency, the Zero One technology festival, and weekly executive committee meetings.
The non-profit work has been a fantastic extension to the senses I've sharpened at my day jobs over the years, and has added a lot more to my toolbox. Maybe the best skills I've been learning to use are when to speak up and lead, and when to shut the hell up and listen.
Steve Cooley’s Specialties:
CSS/PHP/MySQL as a technology base. New media strategy and implementation using syndication technologies, content management systems, wikis, blogs, e-commerce systems, analytics, digital advertising, plus a (very) large assortment of other skills related to media production, design, branding, and marketing.
Steve Cooley’s Experience
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Sales Lead Capture, Web Engineer
Apple, inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)
My job is primarily to capture sales leads and route them to the appropriate inside sales organization staff member for a phone call follow up. While my organizational position is in marketing, I bridge the gap between the customers visiting our website and our sales organization.
I work with marketing managers to design and implement tools to effectively manage marketing messages and offer comprehensive solutions to our customers needs on the web. I create tools to capture inbound customer data and get that info to a live sales person to jump on the hot sales lead. We rely heavily on automating as much of our processes as reasonable, which is where my PHP and MySQL skills shine. -
Freelance PHP/MySQL/iPhone development
self employed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)
So far, heavier on PHP/MySQL, but rapidly expanding to iPhone development.
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President of the Board of Directors
Works/San Jose
(Fine Art industry)
August 2008 — May 2009 (10 months)
Managed one of the oldest non-profit arts organizations in San Jose, during an extremely challenging period of it's life. Coordinated 85% of the entire annual art auction and raised ~$9,000. Ran monthly board meetings. Pushed to hire a gallery coordinator. Was one of only two board members at the lowest point, and helped to turn around the board so that it sits at 8 members at the time my tour of duty was done.
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Member of the Board of Directors
Works/San Jose
(Fine Art industry)
April 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 2 months)
ran a whole lot of music, performance, and art events. Implemented a bunch of web technologies and communication tools. Helped to keep the boat afloat.
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Co-Founder
Clinks, Inc.
(Wine and Spirits industry)
October 2008 — March 2009 (6 months)
Advising on branding, infrastructure, design, user experience, and back-end data systems.
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PHP Programmer
Pearson Branded
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year )
One specific project I did was to develop an in-house project postmortem assessment tool to be used by staff and clients to determine how well the agency did on specific projects. It involved data capture, front end design, back end administration tools, and analysis and summary report preparation.
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Web Programmer
Cgrafx
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
Developed a web-based marketing tool to track responses to email campaigns. Mass mailings were sent out to email lists and then we measured how people responded to the email by tracking what they clicked on. Analysis and reporting tools were created for cgrafx account executives for reporting to the client on the effectiveness of the email campaign.
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Visual Design Lead
Cycore, Puppettime
(Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Creative and technical design and implementation of 3d characters for use in a 3d story-telling content creation tool. This was a startup I co-founded that was acquired.
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Print Production Designer
CKS
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
CKS was a world famous integrated branding, media, and marketing company. I was in the Cupertino office working alongside creative designers to ensure that their concepts translated perfectly into high quality print-ready media.
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Print Production Designer
CKS, USWeb/CKS, marchFIRST
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
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print production designer
USWeb/CKS
(Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
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Quality Assurance Engineer: Photoshop
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
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