For a detailed history of companies, current and past positions, view my LinkedIn profile. Here we'll explore some of my more exciting ventures.
ReadyTown is the latest advancement in online disaster preparedness. The application provides businesses and towns with the ability to prepare their employees and residents for all emergencies (not just hurricanes) by embedding personalized preparedness widgets on their website.
Founder and CEO
Launched June 2009
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OneStorm is the Internet's most comprehensive free hurricane preparedness resource, partnered with Publix Super Markets. The two components of OneStorm are: Build a Plan, a detailed, state-of-the-art emergency planning tool and Learn to Prepare, an in-depth library of educational resources.
Co-Founder and CEO
Launched May 2006
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READY OR NOT? is Texas' family disaster preparedness planning tool, developed by OneStorm for EnviroMedia and the TX Department of State Health Services (DSHS). The site can be viewed as the second incarnation of our online preparedness methodologies, making it even easier for individuals to take responsibility for their safety in times of crisis. A complete plan contains three interactive sections: Family, Essentials and Information.
Web Project Manager
Launched October 2007
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Ah-Ha! Media offers high-quality online training and consulting in multiple topic areas, including Workplace Diversity, Ethics, Violence, and AB1825-compliant Sexual Harassment. Ah-Ha! Media’s interactive courses are authored by talented instructional designers and Subject Matter Expert Stephen Oliver.
Founder and CEO
Launched July 2005
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America's Emergency Network (AEN) will be the conduit that emergency managers and other government officials responsible for disaster response and recovery will use to get their messages to the media and/or directly to the public via the internet and, eventually, a dedicated television channel. AEN will work because it has been designed to eliminate the breakdowns that have interrupted communications in the past.
Founding Chief Technology Officer
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Virtual Advisor is a strategic consulting and product development firm for companies embracing innovative e-learning initiatives. The VA team creates cutting-edge products and services for corporations targeting the small business market.
Chief Technology Officer
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TicketLeap is an online ticketing solutions provider originally incubated by the world-renowned Venture Initiation Program (VIP) of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Their full-featured ticketing system enables small to mid-size venues to easily sell tickets to their events online.
Interface Designer
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High-Tech Institute is an award-winning family of schools offering degrees in Technology, Health Care, Visual Design Business and more. At HTI, I co-authored a 1,000 hour Multimedia Design Associates degree-granting program and taught 14 courses.
Program Manager
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With click-through rates rapidly declining following the dot-com bust, alternative methods of advertising were desperately needed. I had the idea of putting Flash advertisements over the screen, which I self-titled "Flash-Over Advertising." My tool for automating this process was adopted by Macromedia and is now a Behavior in their latest Flash application.
President & Flash-Over Advertising Inventor
Y100 Radio Philadelphia was one of the city's largest and most popular radio stations in the late 90's. The Preston & Steve Morning Show, with whom I worked closely, is now the #1 FM morning show in the nation on WMMR. At Y100, I managed a web presence revered by Billboard Magazine as one of the country's top-performing radio station websites.
Webmaster
(Coolest Job Ever)
Mail Pals was my first major web project, founded in 1998. It quickly grew to one of the Internet's largest pen pal networks with over 80% of our members outside of the US. While it's just a distant memory at this point, it was the first of many online projects to come!
Founder - 1998
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