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WORK EXPERIENCE
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ChefAMe, LLC
Founding Partner
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March, 2009 - Present
Philadelphia, PA
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- Develop social media marketing plan to grow ChefAMe event attendance
- Reach out to media outlets (new media and old) to gain sponsors and publicity for independent chefs
- Bring in new aspiring chefs to develop their menu for each event
- Work with restaurants and vendors to acquire ingredients for the custom menus and drink specials for each event
- Develop business plan to grow ChefAMe from an event company into its next stage of business
- Write marking material, web site content and blog entries
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CRM manager, LLC
Sr. Consultant
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December, 2008 - Present
Malvern, PA
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- Lead new team on Google Apps Premier implementations and integration
- Build a relationship with outside partners to further our external and internal client offerings:
- Google, Inc. - Enterprise SaaS email, document management and collaborative services.
- Boomi - SaaS information connectors.
- Salesforce - Leading SaaS CRM tool.
- Support multiple on-going CRM manager projects. These include both new implemenations as well as the CRM manager plans.
- Integrate products that run client businesses. These include Salesforce, QuickBooks OE, Peachtree Accounting and Google Apps
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Freelance Writer
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September, 2007 - Present
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- AOL, Inc - Emurse.com Blog (May, 2009 - Present)
- Write technology and entrepreneurial articles on job searching, resume writing and career development
- Develop campaigns to bring in repeat readers of the blog and users of Emurse.com
- Use social networks (including Facebook, Twitter, etc) to bring in new readers and users of the resume building service
- b5media.com - That Damn PC (June, 2008 - September, 2008)
- Ran a technology related blog for b5media that focused on the desktop and PC user
- Created partnerships with hardware/software companies to work with b5media's blogs
- Monitored and interacted with Twitter and other social network followers for this blog
- Srcasm.com - (September, 2007 - Present)
- Created and wrote on this blog primarily focused on network security, SaaS and social media marketing tools
- Developed ideas along with engaging the community to aid in the Philadelphia entrepreneurial scene
- Worked with local startups to create new and traditional media marketing plans. (i.e. Using social networking site, blogs, videos and contests to grow their user bases)
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Passpack Srl.
Technology Evangelist/Blogger Consultant
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October, 2008 - November, 2008
Rome, Italy - Remote
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- Posted insightful blog entries on both the product (Passpack) and the industry (security, identity protection, password management).
- Industry and product evangelism both online and off by using tools such as Twitter, Facebook, live demonstrations, other blogs/websites and real-world conferences and events.
- Created technology whitepapers and other interactive material that focuses on the industry and technology to educate people and businesses on why identity management and security is important.
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Rohm and Haas
Network Engineer/Security Consultant
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June, 2008 - November, 2008
Philadelphia, PA
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- Worked to develop a plan and global configuration for the Riverbed Steelhead WAN acceleration equipment
- Configured global Cisco routers, switches and PIX/ASA firewalls to ensure uninterrupted connectivity between sites
- Supported content filtering with Secure Computing Smartfilter and Cisco Content Engines at 120+ sites around the globe
- Migrated a main distribution frame (MDF) including network equipment, physical cabling and configurations, with little downtime by recreating a production MDF in a new area of the plant
- Configured Cisco Content Engines to support both web caching and WMT multicasting to conserve bandwidth and enable higher quality global web casts
- Helped to support the corporate wireless architecture to allow for uninterrupted access to the network anywhere in the building
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VirtualSmith, LLC
Director of Technical Sales
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September, 2007 - Present
Philadelphia, PA
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- Developed a business plan for a virtualization consulting and virtual enterprise hosting company
- Run the day-to-day business operations including accounting, contract writing and proposal management
- Provide technical knowledge to operate the virtual enterprise infrastructure
- Provide security expertise to client projects and network designs
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Southco, Inc.
Network Security Specialist
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May, 2005 - April, 2008
Concordville, PA
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- Developed, tested and deployed VPN solutions for site-to-site connectivity
- Configured and support 25+ firewalls at sites around the globe
- Traveled between 3 continents to support and maintain network connectivity and global security standards
- Deployed and manage email security appliances to keep Spam and viruses from entering the global network
- Support anti-virus software (McAfee's ePolicy) on 1900+ computers and over 100 servers globally
- Tested and deployed web filtering solutions at 25+ sites globally
- Deployed and trained IT staff on new 802.11b/g wireless network
- Deployed and supported email filtering solutions (McAfee and Barracuda applicances)
- Supported Blackberry Enterprise Server environment for 100+ end users globally
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Get IT Connected, Inc.
CEO/Co-founder
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March, 2002 - August, 2004
Quakertown, PA
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- Designed, implemented and maintained websites for individual and businesses
- Created online commerce web sites, back-end scripting solutions, database schema's and PHP programmed sites
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