Seeking positions within Orange County, California or telecommute ONLY. ---mark
Mark Warrick Mobile: 714-280-6253 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.warrick.net Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markwarrick Introduction Over 14 years of Internet industry experience including all aspects of web development and marketing businesses online. Experience includes 10 years of web project management, analysis and development experience. Have helped build and manage websites and web-based applications for companies of all sizes from 3- person start ups to Fortune 500 companies like Freedom Interactive, and Elsevier. Very comfortable dealing with non-technical business end users as well as C-level management and investors. Work Experience 7/2009 5/2010 - ExamWeb, LLC Costa Mesa, CA *Web Project Manager / ColdFusion Software Engineer / Systems Admin* ExamWeb, LLC is a leading provider of online learning, testing and certification for professionals in the medical, real estate, publishing, educational, and building industries. Notable clients that I dealt with frequently included Elsevier, Prudential Real Estate, McGraw Hill Publishing, Pearson, and the Royal Society of Medicine. I was responsible for managing new products and changes to existing products for all of the companys clients. · Assisted with requirements gathering and meetings with clients and created flow charts, project charters, functional specifications, project plans and other documentation as needed. · Established thorough documentation procedures for requirements gathering including the use of MindJet and a web-based project tracking system for all major projects. · Created detailed work estimates for all new projects and assisted with sales strategies. · Monitored all projects with an online tracking system capable of identifying potential slippages in schedules. · Provided ColdFusion programming for new and existing online exam preparation and testing platforms including integration with third party servers via XML and web services, automated data exchanges, and e-commerce payment gateways. · Established an issue tracking system used to monitor daily support requests and ongoing projects, and installed a document tracking system (SharePoint) for company-wide intelligence. · Evaluated for hire and managed other ColdFusion developers (Teams of 1-2 developers). · Configured and maintained all Windows-based Systems, including many dedicated servers hosted with RackSpace, and internal development servers. Reconfigured and consolidated outdated and unneeded equipment, saving the company $36-50k annually and improving system-wide performance, reliability, and availability. · Managed DNS, Firewalls, security and network connections. · Performed ongoing systems analysis to identify bottlenecks in processes - such as tuning the Microsoft SQL queries and optimizing long-running ColdFusion templates. 6/2008 10/2008 - RealtyTrac, Inc., Irvine, CA *Product Manager* RealtyTrac is the number one source of US home foreclosure information on the Internet and the most visited website of its kind which is often quoted as the source in news reports. For real estate agents, the data includes a wealth of sales opportunities including services such as loan modification, short sale negotiations, home valuation and real estate sales.** · Provided strategy and direction to senior level executives and business owners of the company on the feasibility and cost/revenue projections for new products and changes to existing products.* * · Identified new opportunities for enhancements to the company's products and prepared detailed business case documentation to justify new products. · Conducted SWOT analyses for new products, including competitive market research, technical feasibility, revenue projections and anticipated costs. · Wrote use cases and technical specifications including Visio and MindJet diagrams, screenshots, mockups and PowerPoint presentations. · Communicated daily with senior executives of the company to set expectations. · Negotiated with 3rd party vendors for outsourced technology needs. · Lead cross-functional team meetings and requirements gathering sessions. · Anticipated risks and helped define and manage the scope of all projects during the entire lifecycle of development from conception to completion. · Created about another 20% of revenue opportunities for the company while protecting the company's long-held reputation and investment into technology. * * 2/2007 01/2008 - Freedom Interactive, Irvine, CA *Project Manager* Freedom Communications is the parent company of the Orange County Register (www.ocregister.com) and about 35 other newspapers and broadcast television stations. Freedom Interactive is the technical division of the company responsible for all the web sites company-wide. Working as a contractor of Kforce Staffing, I assisted Freedom Interactive in the development of several of their company's websites.** · Primary project while at Freedom Interactive was (* www.myochigh.com*). The end result was a portal website designed to be an online meeting place for Orange County's 275,000 high school students. Although no longer online, a sister-side, www.ocvarsity.com, uses many of the core technologies that were previously developed for MyOCHigh. · Involved in all aspects of the production of website from conception to completion. · Facilitated months of requirements gathering meetings and authored the project documentation. · Created the technical structure of the system, including the database structure. · Directly managed a team of four dedicated web developers, including daily prioritizations of tasks. · Was involved in the actual programming of the website itself utilizing PHP and MySQL in a multi-tiered, version-controlled development environment. · Regularly communicated internally with about 40 people involved in the project and externally with 3rd party technology partners such as: Google, Amazon, Pluck, Brightcove, and Zvents. · Also wrote specifications and developed a project plan to syndicate the company's (www.ocvarsity.com) website across Freedom Communication's other online properties and led the redevelopment of several other news web sites including (www.oaoa.com), (www.shelbystar.com), ( www.tribtown.com), and (www.gastongazette.com). 12/2005 - 1/2007 - Specific Media, Irvine, CA *Project Manager* SpecificMedia is the worlds 4th largest advertising network by audience volume according to Comscore, following Google, Yahoo and MSN, reaching over 150 million people each month.** · Oversaw the development of new products for the company throughout the entire life cycle from strategic planning to managing implementation. A typical product would be a web portal used to provide useful information on varying topics and collect sales leads. · Regularly translated marketing requirements into technical documentation and acted as the main contact between a small team of web developers, graphics artists, and senior management of the company. · Developed and maintained the company's project tracking system, in use by 100 employees. · Was also personally involved in the development process as well, helping out with graphics, PHP programming, MySQL database design, project management, and all other logistics as needed. · Reported to the VP of product development but was responsible for working independently of senior management in the deliverance of these products. · Was successful in promoting the company through search engine optimization efforts and search engine marketing efforts that have resulted in the company's various websites consistently being ranked in the first page of search results for nearly all relevant keywords on all major search engines. 1/2001 Present - ZapConnect.com, Santa Ana, CA *Co-Founder / Project Manager / ColdFusion Developer * ZapConnect.com is the worlds largest source of medical device company, services and device information, visited by over a quarter million people each month according to Quantcast.** · As a co-founder of the company, planned, developed and promoted the ZapConnect.com website and database from conception to completion several years ago and continue to oversee all technical operations for this website. · The site is a robust Microsoft SQL database driven by ColdFusion MX 8 Enterprise of over 100,000 companies and 80,000 products. · It features advanced searching technology that is hundreds of times more accurate than other search engines. We essentially eliminated the noise and irrelevant results, not to mention all the spam websites that most search engines contain in their indexes. · Since day one, I have been responsible for all technical operations of the business including the development of the website itself, taking care of the co-located server, networking, hardware, planning, budgeting, and everything else necessary to make the business plan a reality. The business is profitable. · ZapConnect.com is discovered via nearly 200,000 different search terms each month on all major search engines according to Google Analytics. * * 1/2000 - Present - Fusioneers.com, Irvine, CA *Web Project Manager / Web Applications Developer and Internet Marketing Specialist* · As the President of a web development consulting firm, I wear every hat in the company. From the initial sales calls, to contracts, requirements gathering, technical documentation, project planning, staffing, prototyping, programming, delivery, marketing strategies, maintenance, disaster recovery, etc. Im involved in web-based products from inception to completion. · Selected projects in which I had exclusive or major involvement include:* * o www.zapconnect.com o www.hbsintl.com o www.3fbc.com o www.510kdecisions.com o www.510ks.com o www.kinetictravel.org o www.finncomfort.com o www.thinkshoesusa.com o www.verbaladvantage.com o www.bryanedwards.com o You can read more about my work on these web sites at my personal website: www.warrick.net *Education* 1/1993 - 6/2000 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA · Degree studies included accounting, business management, marketing, psychology and photography · Cumulative GPA: 3.72 with 76 units complete. Skills *Project Management* · SDLC, RAD, Agile, SCRUM and waterfall methodologies · Brain storming, technical requirements gathering and JAD sessions · Project budget development and tracking · Team building and management · Resource, milestone and timeline planning · Project proposals, technical specifications and use cases · Graphical screen mockups and application prototypes · Visio work flow, process flow charts and MindJet site maps · Microsoft Project plans · Web-based project tracking systems (Jira, Basecamp, ActiveCollab, FlySpray and others) · Project status reporting and risk assessments *Web **Programming** Languages* · ColdFusion · CSS · HTML · JavaScript · PHP · RSS · XML *Database** Platforms* · Microsoft Access · Microsoft SQL Server · MySQL · Oracle *Database** Skills* · Database Conversions · Database Modeling · Database Normalization · Database Optimization · Stored Procedures · SQL Query Building *Internet** Marketing Skills* · Affiliate Marketing · Competitive Analysis · Domain Name Research · Keyword Ad Campaigns (PPC) · Search Engine Marketing (SEM) · Search Engine Optimization (SEO) · Search Engine Submissions · Website Structure Analysis *Systems** Administration* · Desktop Support · Email Servers · FTP Servers · Firewalls · Hardware Installation / Upgrades / Troubleshooting · Network Storage Devices · TCP/IP Networking · Remote Desktop · Security · Virus / Spyware Detection and Elimination · Windows Server Administration *Productivity** Tools* · MindJet MindManager · Microsoft Excel · Microsoft Project · Microsoft Share ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/message.cfm/messageid:8426 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/unsubscribe.cfm
