Business Analyst, Project manager, PeopleSoft Developer
Resume:
CONTACT INFO
Eric Cogen
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Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442
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OBJECTIVE
Successful, Driven, Creative Information Technology Professional seeks Rewarding, Challenging Position in the South Eastern Florida Area.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Dates Employed Job Title Company
7/2010 – Present CTO – Chief Technical Officer Reliance, Inc.
Lake Worth/Florida
C-Level Executive / ASP.net Developer / SQL Developer
Projects:
Re-lianceinc.com
Relbo.net
Primary role at Reliance, Inc. consists of overseeing all aspects of the company’s technical infrastructure, requirements, strategy and corporate vision.
Relbo.net
Architected, developed, managed and upgraded our internal CMS (relbo.net “reliance back office network”). Built on vb.net and MS SQL 2000. The original developers of the system did not release the source back to the company, whom were looking for several changes to be made which required the system to be decompiled and rebuilt, which was accomplished over a 3 month period of time.
In addition I developed, implemented and managed an SEO and social networking campaign that increased traffic to the site by over 1000%. Initial organic traffic patterns prior to this had been in the 10-15 visitor per day range, by mid December 2010 traffic to the site had increased to roughly 150-200 visitors per day and unique page views to 250-300 per day up from 20-30.
Within the first month of arriving at Reliance, Inc. I had contacted a cyber squatter whom had been demanding $15,000.00 for the domain name relianceinc.com, a clear violation of the UDRP. I took it upon myself to research the UDRP laws and successfully recovered the domain name for the company for free.
In addition to managing day to day technical operations at the company I was also involved in maintaining the corporate infrastructure including all internal devices, such as printers, copiers, desktops, laptops and all other devices on the internal network, as well as maintaining the corporate internal domain via Exchange server 2008 SBS.
Re-lianceinc.com
Rebuilt the entire website in .net to allow for ease of modification, growth as the corporate vision required. In addition a forum and blog have been implemented to increase organic traffic, search engine trust, leads and open the company up to cross conversation with prospects and existing clientele.
5/2009 – 7/2010 Programmer Captovis Advanced Industries
Boca Raton/Florida
ASP.net Developer / SQL Server Developer
Projects:
Captovis.com
RepairOcala.com
Primary role consisted of automating as much of our internal systems as possible, including FedEx, USPS logistical systems, Maintaining and upgrading older .net 1 framework code to .net framework 3 code for improvements in speed, robustness and functionality. Improvements in sql architecture, design and usage of CLR components to drive a very robust internal mailing system, which led to a very large increase in usability.
In addition created, managed and implemented a small but effective SEO campaign to help drive traffic and increase brand awareness for the company.
1/2006 – 3/2009 Programmer Visionamics Inc.
Boca Raton/Florida
ASP Developer / SQL Server
Recent Projects:
CityTwist.com DIY Email Marketing Portal.
Project Utilized:
ASP, ASP.net, ADO.net Javascript(JQuery), AJAX, CSS, SQL Server 2005, ImageMagick, IECapt, MS DomDocument 3 ActiveX component and
Chilckat HTMLtoXML component for dom manipulation in background processes.
Project Declaration:
Create a DIY email marketing portal for B2C/B2B email prospecting (the first of its kind) and backend administration portal.
URL: https://secure.citytwist.com/
Site uses JavaScript heavily for template/creative production/manipulation.
100’s of stored p¬rocedures, several SQL user agent jobs and triggers for logging purposes.
EmailPhoneBook.com Email to address locator service.
Project Utilized:
ASP.net, ADO.net, SQL Server 2005, Stored Procedures.
Project Declaration:
Create a website for our email to address location service.
URL: http://www.emailphonebook.com/
Built PDF to PNG convertor using ImageMagick
Built Website Thumbnailer using ImageMagick and IECapt
Built automated file importer.
Company had multiple venders that would send in data in multiple formats from time to time that needed to be bulk inserted into the master database and fields defined for further processing.
The application built in SQL would search a directory for a file and would:
1) Identify the file type, fixed | delimited | binary | compressed.
2) If delimited, use a SQL CLR Proc using the MS TextFieldParser object to parse the fields.
3) If fixed, move the file to a directory for human input and report to the user that a fixed file was found for further information.
4) If binary, attempt to discover the file type, DBF, Binary XLS, MDF etc and convert it(to tab delimited) or import it using the necessary driver.
5) If compressed, use wzunzip or winrar(CLI) to uncompress the file and move it to the necessary directory for further processing.
Once the file was imported, the application would attempt to identify the fields in the table, Including First Name, Last Name, IP Address, Address 1, Address2, City, State, Zip Code, Phone Number and email address.
PayPal and Authorize.net ecommerce integration: CityTwist.com, EmailPhoneBook.com.
SQL CLR development: Visionamics backend component.
C++ development experience. Built a Melissadata Address correction extended stored procedure.
Introductory experience with Perl via Cygwin
SQL Server 2000 and 2005 DBA experience
IIS Administration
Coyote Load Balancer Administration
8/2003 - 1/2006 ASP Developer, Technical Support DentalPlans.com, Inc.
Dania/Florida
Recent Projects:
Savings Portal:
Project Utilized:
ASP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, MS SQL Server, 25+ Stored Procedures, 4 Functions and 1 Trigger, Cross browser compatibility with major browsers(IE, FF latest stable builds)
Project Declaration:
Create a web portal to increase and monetize web presence without interfering with main flagship traffic. Additional requirements included backend site for administration, As well as SEO Optimization.
URL: http://www.dentalplans.com/savingsportal/
Delivered complete front and back end project in 1 week.
Current Google Page Rank: 5
Search function includes scripts for spelling suggestions as well as similar keyword suggestions.
AJAX used lightly for SEO purposes but increases the cool factor a bit.
See categories on left pane as well as center div on subcategory pages for AJAX examples.
Home page of portal is completely dynamic in nature with main image, main text, quick gift ideas, featured offers, home page featured banner, seasonal offers and recently added offers are all able to be updated/edited in administration area of website. Reason for these being dynamic is so that the marking team had complete control of the sites content once project was complete and published.
Backend administration site included ALL functionality to control web portal including creating, updating and deleting of items (CRUD methodology), categories, subcategories, quick gift ideas, seasonal products, featured offers. (Note: delete functionality works on active bit field flags across the entire application.)
All SQL is written as stored procedure with all inputs screened of possible sql injection attributes including both the front and back end.
Trigger is being utilized on the individual product pages to include similar items.
The trigger is fired upon creates edits and deletes of keywords from administration panel.
See http://www.dentalplans.com/savingsportal/products.asp?productID=454 for example.
Product is 1800 flowers.com keywords include: Flowers, Plants, Candies, Gift Baskets - Flowers, Plants, Candies, Gift Baskets
Similar items pulled from Proc include:
FlowerDelivery.com
Almond Plaza
American Blooms
Calyx and Corolla
Mission Orchards
Dutch Gardens, Inc.
Trigger updates a keyword table with a keyword and its associated product id. Table gets rebuilt during updates creates and edits.
7/2001 - 8/2003 Email Append Coordinator, Creative Developer Equifax (Formerly Edirect Inc.)
Boca Raton/Florida
Data Coordinator , Web Designer , Broadcast Engineer , Sales Support Engineer
Responsibilities included overseeing 1 senior MS FoxPro developer and 1 Jr. Html Creative technician. Additionally the 3 TOP sales producers for the company was assigned to me along with 28 other sales reps. In this position I was responsible for over 3 million dollars worth of sales per year. During my leadership of this role I increased productivity for the other 12 html creative techs by creating several small VB6 applications of which they all used on a daily basis. I also became the go to guy for the other Jr. html techs for all of their html issues that no one else could figure out.
1/2000 - 7/2001 Web Developer Merkatum Inc.
Fort Lauderdale/Florida
Web Designer, Sales Support Engineer, Systems Support Engineer, Proprietary Software Language Support and Trainer, Help client(s) achieve E-Commerce goals via Companies Proprietary software.
In this position I was the first contact for all of the companies technical support issues including asp, html, javascript, php, and the proprietary scripting language that was created for the flagship application (asp like). I was also on call every other weekend for off hours technical support phone calls, email and server issues 24 hours a day sometimes taking late night phone calls and emails (pager notified) from California and other west coast states. Additional duties included creating sites for new customers.
Previous experience in the financial industry as a stock broker.
SKILLS
Skill Name Skill Level Last Used/Experience
ASP Expert Currently used / 10 years
ASP.net Beginner Currently used / 5 years
CSS Intermediate Currently used / 5 years
Excellent Trouble Shooting Skills Expert Currently used / 10 years
HTML Expert Currently used / 7 years
JavaScript Intermediate Currently used / 5 years
PHP Beginner Currently used / 1 years
Search Engine Optimization Expert Currently used / 3 years
SQL, TSQL Intermediate Currently used / 8 years
VB Intermediate Currently used / 5 years
VB.net Beginner Currently used / 1 years
XML Intermediate Currently used / 2 years
LANGUAGES
Languages Proficiency Level
English Fluent - Wide Knowledge
ADDITIONAL INFO
- Successfully encouraged management to upgrade all computers to single vendor, company had been running on cloned computers requiring many man hours per week for up keep. As well as upgrade from Business class DSL to dual T1's and deployment of corporate antivirus, firewall and WSUS strategy.
- Actively participated in companies affiliate program bringing in 440 sales.
- Built additional websites for company’s in house affiliate program which generated an additional 100+ sales.
- Successfully encouraged management to monetize traffic via Google Adsense on non-eCommerce sections of main website.
• Built 3rd party affiliate portal to monetize traffic.
http://www.dentalplans.com/savingsportal/
Personal Projects:
Currently working on VB.NET multi-threaded SEO Application. (BackLinkBot)
Project is currently in alpha stage and will be ready for distribution by summer 2006.
Project also encompasses asp.net companion website (hosted and administered by me) www.backlinkbot.com (no content on site just yet.)
Application arose out of the need for a Suite of SEO applications. Includes keyword investigation, Ranking spy, Competitor spy, and full blown web spider with human usage pattern emulation. Current spider speed exceeds (if allowed without usage emulation) 5 pages per second per thread. Including parsing of HTML.
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