Resume of Shawn Smith
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Shawn Smith
abqp0s@r.postjobfree.com
Objective:
Employment that fully utilizes my diverse business experience in Web Site
Design, Sales and Marketing (both online and off) & Systems Engineer /
Hardware experience, while offering the opportunity for career advancement
along with the further expansion of IT skills.
Qualifications:
Creating, updating and maintaining multiple web sites;
Web Programming, script installations;
Designing graphics, logos and content for web sites;
Collaboration with content providers;
Overseeing and driving day-to-day web site operations;
Creating processes for posting content to the web site;
Ensuring web site quality, performance and reliability;
Ability to work under pressure, and to consistently deliver projects on-time;
Excellent communication skills and project management skills;
Extensive sales experience;
Strong systems background, including hardware repair, networking, and
extensive US / Linux server design and implementation.
Expertise:
16 years of diverse business experience related to sales/IT, 9 years in graphic
design and web site development.
Hands on experience with:
HTML, XML, Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver LJltraDev, Dreamweaver MX,
Fireworks, Flash 5, Flash MX, Adobe CS3 Master collection, Macromedia
Captivate, Swish, PhotoShop, Paintshop, Painter, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, ASP,
VS Scnpt, DHTML, FrontPage, MSQuery, MySQL, FTP, ODBC, OsCommerce,
Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Windows g5/98/NT/XP, A variety of
Linux Operating Systems, Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Software
installation, Linux Server infrastructure design, database design, and data
conversion.
Relevant Experience;
Jul 1999 to Present
Terrapin Data and Multimedia;
Tampa, FL
Designer / Owner
Professional Web Site Development with an emphasis on E-Commerce sites. Duties include designing web
sites, maintaining web sites, creating web graphics and layouts, web programming (cgi/php/perl/javascript),
script installations, logo design, animated banners, copywriting and content creation, write, edit and proofread
a vanety of documents, plan and prepare articles for online dissemination, web usability, accessibility, testing
and debugging, website promotion & marketing, client relations, sales, hiring and managing contractors and
freelance workers, bookkeeping.
Jun 2009 to Present
iScope Marketing.
St Petersburg, FL
Lead Designer
Held position as lead web designer for iScope Marketing, a local internet marketing company. Main
responsibilities were the design of small static websites for local businesses. The bulk of these sites were
designed specifically to be effective in conjunction with our marketing package, which includes Google
AdWords PPC (pay per click) campaigns, and social media marketing (i.e. Facebook/Twitter). In addition, I
also produced higher end custom sites for customers whose needs surpassed our standard package (i.e.
Ecommerce, CMS, SEO, Flash/XML portfolio sites, etc ) I also developed online, interactive, training
materials for the training an at-home sales representatives.
Note iScope has recently closed their St Pete office, and downsized drastically. I currently do work for them
on an outside contract basis, and projects are becoming infrequent; however, while working as an hourly
employee in the initial 6 months with this company production was very fast paced. In that initial 6 months
time, I built in excess of 100 websites for iScope (*references and example available upon request),
sometimes as many as 2-3 per day
Jul 2004 to Jun 2006
Pattern Recognition Inc.
Tampa, FL
Systems Engineer/Sales Engineer
Primary responsibilities included project planning, testing, development and maintenance of multiple
corporate Intranet; Collaborating with software developers and network engineers on various projects
including development and maintenance of in-house helpdesk system, various custom SAAS applications (to
customer specs), and development of entire in-house web design and hosting infrastructure. Secondary
responsibilities included generating personal sales, support of entire sales team from an engineering
standpoint, development of training and support materials for both in-house staff and customers; including
sales collateral, general documentation and multimedia formats.
Oct 97 to Jul 00
Hybrid Data and Multimedia
Tampa FL
Owner / CEO
Sourced, purchased, refurbished and resold secondary market (off-lease, refurbished and out of channel)
computers and computer equipment. Hired, trained and managed 12 employees in sales, technician and
shipping department positions. Developed entire business model and all internal policies and procedures for
all departments. Sustained sales of an average of 75-100 units (mostly laptops) weekly for over 18 months,
with an emphasis on up-selling hardware upgrades and warranty services at point of sale.