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Steve Burton • Proven expertise improving business processes and communication by objectively designing, developing and deploying information systems on all levels • Comprehensive understanding of technology and ability to abstract business needs and requirements into information systems • Experience leading and guiding teams as well as working on projects individually Skills/Expertise Software/Languages: SharePoint /MOSS, .NET. C#, VB, C++, ASP, PHP, XML/XSL, HTML, JavaScript, Web Services, SQL Reporting Services, Crystal Reports Databases: MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS-Access, AS/400 DB2, ODBC Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX, OS/400 Graphics: Flash, Photoshop, Premier, AfterEffects, OCR/Scanning Retail Technology: Scanning equipment, wireless POS systems, inventory control, distribution systems, supply chain management, wireless receiving systems, warehousing, kiosk systems, forecasting, labor tracking, Electronic Data Interchange, membership systems. Methodologies and Processes: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Entity Relationship Diagramming (ERD), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Joint Application Development (JAD), Object Oriented software and process design (OOD), Requirements Analysis/Documentation, Software Architecture and Design Documentation, User Interface Design, Business Process Re-Engineering and Improvement (BPR/BPI) techniques, Balanced Scorecard methodologies. Communication and Interpersonal: Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and ability to communicate in Spanish on technical and business levels. Uniquely qualified to facilitate communication between business and technical functional areas. Analytical problem solving techniques. Ability to build teams, motivate and find creative solutions to complex problems. Accomplishments Systems Engineering • Architected and developed an interactive system for a national hospital group, providing registration, procedure information, discharge instructions and video on demand services to patients over the in-room television. • Successfully architected and implemented corporate intranets for various companies with 1000+ employees that included the analysis of the information in the various business units and organization of the content into global enterprise taxonomies. • Developed and implemented system workflows to manage business processes for an international company that included process tracking, task management and notification that enabled to company to meet its regulatory requirements. • Architected and implemented an order processing and workflow management system for an international ISP that managed the entire order/customer lifecycle. • Designed and implemented a comprehensive scheduling application for a leading wireless service provider that accommodated their need to manage the customer equipment installation process and developed and provided training materials to the company across the nation. • Architected and designed a loan management system that provided for loan pool acquisition, investor management, customer billing and foreclosure. Project Management • Successfully implemented deployments of corporate intranets across various business units. • Led team responsible for migrating and converting inventory system data during a corporate merger. • Managed recurring POS upgrades and deployment for 100+ warehouses. Configured/implemented inventory and POS system. • Planned and coordinated system conversions and database upgrades for numerous companies. • Initiated, planned, and executed projects to implement scanning and barcode system. Executive Aptitude • Effectively assembled and managed teams to handle corporate operations, support systems, product development, customer fulfillment, and software engineering. • Established rapport with various business units by conducting interviews and meetings that facilitated and clarified their objectives and requirements. • Worked with president and management teams to successfully launch and fulfill new products and services. • Profitably directed and supervised media production and web site development groups. • Produced budgets and detailed costing analyses for systems and processes for large corporations. General Business • Developed and implemented corporate training programs. • Collaborated with corporate executives to facilitate business process reengineering. • Implemented Balanced Scorecard methodologies and created executive information systems (EIS). • Analyzed and automated processes. Created various corporate training programs and courses. • Produced process and work flow diagrams and requirements and architecture documents for companies. Professional History 8/10 – Current INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT YORBA LINDA • CA Professional Consulting Firm Title: Independent Consultant Recent projects include: • Implementing and maintaining SharePoint as well as developing enhancements for a terminal in the Port of Long Beach • Maintaining SharePoint and system enhancements as well as PHP/MySQL solutions for a Boeing vendor • Designing and Implementing a PHP/MySQL web framework for a startup marketing company 3/09 – 7/10 TECHNISOURCE - CAREFUSION YORBA LINDA/SAN DIEGO • CA Professional Consulting Firm Title: SharePoint Consultant Implemented SharePoint 2007 for CareFusion as they were splitting from Cardinal Health. Worked with corporate marketing and communications department to develop a plan that would facilitate the migration of content and users from the existing intranet system into the SharePoint environment. Designed and developed master pages and page layouts as well as style sheets to accommodate the requirements. Assembled and trained a team of 4 people to assist with the content migration of thousands of pages and documents. Developed custom solutions to meet the needs of various business units. Conducted remote training sessions for approximately 60 individual business units and their personnel on the usage of SharePoint. 5/07 – 1/09 VLSYSTEMS IRVINE • CA Professional Consulting Firm Title: Senior Software Consultant Worked with various clients to establish their goals and objectives for implementing systems to meet their corporate objectives. Developed information architecture plans for implementing corporate intranets that included Microsoft SharePoint 2007. Worked with individual business units and stakeholders to establish security and content management requirements and architected systems to accommodate their needs. Developed system processes and workflows that supported business unit objectives. Provided branding and graphical treatment of system applications using existing and new specifications. Worked with business units and facilitated the content development and deployment into the system framework. Designed and conducted end-user and administrator training programs for companies to facilitate a successful launch of their information systems. Developed governance strategies and information management plans for companies that supported their intranet deployment. Established disaster recovery models and systems to support the intranet systems. 6/06 – 4/07 INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT YORBA LINDA • CA Independent Business Consultant Title: Business Consultant Implemented business systems for clients, including: end-to-end development of web sites, accounting systems, mail and collaboration systems. Designed and architected web based video distribution and tracking systems. Provided on-going support to business infrastructures. 5/05 – 5/06 OLD CANAL FINANCIAL YORBA LINDA • CA Loan Servicing and Collection Title: Vice President of Information Technology Developed the information technology department and created the budgets and strategies that would enable the corporate objectives to be met. Initially, the focus of the project was to audit and publish investor reports, as the existing system allowed for corporate data to be misinterpreted. I worked with the investor community to gather requirements, and facilitated the publication of valid, audited data for the corporation. Once the existing data was understood, and a process developed to render information in real-time, the team began to focus on the development of the next generation system that would track investments and the return as well as the loan servicing and collections cycle. Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint were deployed to accommodate team and inter-department communication. Service Oriented Architecture implemented via .Net Web services and other XML based request/responses methodologies were used to standardize the data flow between the different systems and business units. Additionally, my team selected and deployed an enterprise level accounting packaged to handle the corporate financial requirements and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. 9/04 – 4/05 ENCORE CREDIT IRVINE • CA Loan Origination and Servicing Title: Sr. Programming Supervisor Assembled and lead a technical team of twenty people charged with the development of a loan origination and servicing system using .NET technologies that would replace the existing systems. Created an architecture and deployment plan and facilitated the inter-department communication between the business units and the technical teams. Educated the business analyst group and database administration group on the new design methodologies, and helped set parameters for the continued specification of the new information system. The first phase of the deployment was an appraisal management system, designed to facilitate the tracking and workflows of appraisals ordered on loan applications. Additionally, my team was developing a broker management solution as well as marketing programs that included both programmatic and graphical consideration. In addition to the technology infrastructure we were creating, I initiated and deployed Microsoft Project Server and worked with the project management group to deploy and use the system to track the projects that were underway. 6/01 – 8/04 ELLIPSIS, INC. ALISO VIEJO • CA Marketing Solutions Provider for Mortgage Brokers and Realtors Title: Vice President of Engineering and Operations Ellipsis, Inc. provides web sites and marketing services to their customer base. With such services being offered, I was in charge of, and responsible for all the aspects of the IT infrastructure and operations of the company. This included the management of the product development group, customer fulfillment and support teams, programming team, media production, web site development and production groups. To facilitate the growth if the company, I assembled and managed a very strong team of people to handle the day to day operations, as well as the corporate support systems, and product development. Bimonthly, I was also in charge of the production of professional video shoots. This task included coordinating vendor relationships and hiring the video crews. When I joined Ellipsis, Inc., the company had approximately 10 customers. After creating, implementing, and enhancing their business processes, I helped the company grow their customer base, grossing approximately $10 million a year. 6/99 – 5/01 EDENET COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PLEASANTON • CA Interactive Television Service Provider Title: Senior Software Engineer/Director of Field Operations Worked with founders during the startup phase of the company to develop a conceptual interactive television system that would provide applications and services to patients in their hospital rooms. Went on to develop a proof-of-concept system enabling the company to generate funding in excess of $20m. Continued to assist in the evolution of the concept, working closely with the CTO to select hardware vendors and developed the application and user interface. Facilitated the content loading process onto the system and deployment of the beta location. Worked with the Chief Operations Officer to coordinate the software deployment of the application as well as content for the system. The system is currently in production in hospitals on the east and west coast. The system provides the patient with hospital information, admission orientation policies for the facility, over 50 different medical videos from a variety of disciplines, as well as the ability to check e-mail and browse the Internet from their bed using a wireless remote. 9/94 – 6/99 NETWORK RESOURCE CENTER (NRC), INC. SACRAMENTO • CA Technical Consulting Firm Title: Vice President of Technology Successfully utilized business process reengineering (BPR) methodologies that helped clients reduce costs and eliminate low value functions. Developed technical solutions for clients including systems integration and architecting/programming. Implemented accounting, order processing, reporting, scheduling and a variety of other systems. Managed and developed team members and personnel. Managed client relationships on all levels. Selected Client List VERIO, INC. WALNUT CREEK • CA NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. OAKLAND • CA INTUIT, INC. SAN DIEGO • CA GRUPO ELEKTRA, S.A. DE C.V. MEXICO CITY • MEXICO CAREFUSION SAN DIEGO • CA LOS ANGELES FAIRPLEX POMONA • CA WORLDWIDE CLINICAL TRIALS BEVERLY HILLS • CA ANGELS BASEBALL ANAHEIM • CA INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION IRVINE • CA INPHI CORPORATION WESTLAKE VILLAGE • CA LOS ANGELES FIREMANS’ CREDIT UNION PASADENA • CA CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SANTA ANA • CA WESTCLIFF LABORATORIES SANTA ANA • CA FINEJETS AVIATION YORBA LINDA • CA ADEL WIGGINS GROUP LOS ANGELES • CA LA FITNESS IRVINE • CA METAGENICS SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO • CA ORANGE COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT FOUNTAIN VALLEY • CA ICU MEDICAL SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO • CA

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“Julie may cause watery eyes, urinary incontinence, mood changes, terminal smile, hot flashes ,unusual thirst, extraordinary thinking, and impulsive electronic envy” -Debbie Lawrence, Bird On A Wire. Julie Maloney has been an active member of the blogging community for over two years. In that short period of time she has grown a vast readership and following on both Twitter and Facebook. She blogs about whatever she wants on her personal site, Momspective (www.Momspective.com), and although her personal stories do contain strong language, she works with major brands professionally and follows all guidelines set out in freelance contracts made. In November 2008 she wrote an inspirational story about her journey to weight loss using the Nintendo Wii Fit (www.Momspective.com/Wii-Fit) and founded The Wii Mommies virtual fitness online community (www.WiiMommies.com) in December 2008, which has become the source of great support and encouragement for individuals around the world who want lose weight and get fit through virtual fitness using the Nintendo Wii gaming system*. In March 2009, Julie participated in the EA SPORTS Active 30 Day Challenge with 11 other team members, including Allison Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser. She met one-on-one with Oprah’s personal fitness trainer, Bob Greene, and talked about how to better reach members of her community on achieving their personal fitness goals. Julie teamed up with the EA SPORTS Active team again when they launched their “More Workouts” series and once again joined up with team members – this time including Nancy O’Dell – to put ourselves through the pre-programmed six week challenge. In two years, Julie has lost about 100 pounds using the fitness games designed for the Nintendo Wii. When the weather cools and football teams take the field Julie can be found at home, cheering on the Carolina Panthers. She is using her passion for football to help women enjoy the game and help strengthen relationships with their spouses by teaching women about the sport through Fantasy Football. She also managed a bit of press (you can see it on her press page) because of her superstitious “No Pants Sunday” gig. The reason Carolina isn’t good? Yeah. She’s wearing pants this year. Sorry, Carolina. She has since formed her own Corporation, Cool Mom Guide, LLC, doing business as both Momspective and the Wii Mommies. She has over 13,000 followers on Twitter, over 1650 Facebook friends and averages 100,000 page views a month. Julie also has mentions on numerous television outlets and national magazines for her work online. Please refer to the Press Page for a listing of awesome Julie can be found on.

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Amberlin Salas E-mail: amber@tfcservices.com ________________________________________ OBJECTIVE My objective is to gain experience in the work force and aquire knowledge about things that have to do with my field of study ________________________________________ WORK EXPERIENCE Web Support Service Tech January 2009 – December 2010 TFCServices | Greenville, AL Computer/IT Services I worked with this web developing company updating websites. I was on hand to answer support tickets submitted by clients. I also supplied minimal graphic design expertise when needed, using Photoshop and Illustrator HTML and Web Development, Web Design, Graphic Designer March 2008 - October 2008 The Design Host | Birmingham, AL Computer/IT Services I worked with this small business designing logos, banners and headers. I strictly used Photoshop and these designs were used just for the web, not for print. It was a freelance job and I worked in my on studio. Graphic & Web Designer, ________________________________________ EDUCATION Some College Coursework Completed, Graphic Design, English Jan. 2008 – May 2009 LBWCC - Greenville, AL Aug. 2009 – May 2010 Auburn University Montgomery | Montgomery, AL Feb. 2011 – Present University of Phoenix - Online I studied Graphic Design for two years, and then moved on to English. I currently have 3 semesters left to attain a bachelors degree in English. ________________________________________ SKILLS Graphic Arts Beginner Web Design Beginner Writing Intermediate Personal Computer Support Intermediate Organization Beginner Typing skills Beginner ________________________________________ CAREER HIGHLIGHTS I am a Graphic Designer and I have had two jobs working for web developers. On one, I designed logos, banners, headers, etc. On the second job I managed the sites, which included updating, and a few small graphic design projects. Recently I began working on my English degree, which I only have three semesters left to complete. ________________________________________ INTERESTS I read extensively, play the piano, and I love to sit down at my computer and write a good story. I love to design and create my own original artwork. ________________________________________

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I don't particularly care to nail myself down, in one specific perspective. I think of myself as a conceptual illustrator. Within that genre, lies many different aspects of art that, in a way, fit what I do. I like "out of the ordinary" concepts. Making complex ideas into simple visual images that can be easily understood. Or at the very least, make something simple into something more than it appears.. I'm an Art Education major at Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts. I've been drawing, I'd like to say "semi-professionally" for the last year. I hold myself to a high standard. I pride myself on making traditional graphic novels and comic books. I'm a strictly by-hand, type of artist.

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Attorney, columnist and blogger. Graduate of NYU Law School, long career in commercial, contracts, litigation and automotive law. Fifteen years of successful work in nonprofits including grant writing, award-winning marketing and board governance. Regular columnist in The Finger Lakes Times, blog for Yahoo and Triond.

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Friendly, dependable, professional, with care for detail, committed to customer service. Ability to organize and prioritize a variety of task/projects. Ability to preserve confidentiality of information. Strive to accomplish goals, team player, great ability to work under pressure. Professional Experience I have 6+ Years experience in the following fields: •Customer Service/Accounting/Data Entry •Accounts Receivable daily monetary processing and deposits; Receivables service late fees and collections. Payables bill entry and payments. •Entry of new service orders. •Resolving customer's complaints and billing inquiries by phone and on location. •Organization and filing carrier and agent contracts; distribution of agent contract codes. •Completing transactions, and providing excellent professional and customer service in every level of work operation. Qualifications & Skills: Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Outlook ). Typing speed of 60 WPM. Knowledge of HTML, XML, Advanced Internet, Email & Fax.

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I am a Sophomore at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia. I live in Long Valley and am here for the summer. During my first year at SCAD I took several design/art courses including: Color Theory, Computer Arts (CMPA), Design I and II, and Drawing I and II. I really enjoyed learning Photoshop, Illustrator and the rest of the Adobe Suite. I am available immediately and will be available until early September. Once I go back to Savannah for Fall Quarter, I will be available at that location. Furthermore, I have over 50 days off for winter break if you have further opportunities that would need me to be here. Examples of my work - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCGr7Af5tho - www.instagram.com/austinhein - http://youtu.be/a5DBcHsXCjg?t=2m23s

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Charles J. Manners Charles.manners@gmail.com 717-799-1905 Professional Experience: Freelance Graphic Designer, Lancaster, PA/Pittsburgh, PA 2002 – present • Provide design services for independent clients, including identity development, promotional materials and advertising strategy, marketing concepts and designs, web site design, and packaging design • Responsible for conception to completion of projects including media planning selection and print process • Blend client ideas and objectives to design and campaign while maintaining a focus on basic marketing principles • Clients include: RR Donnelly United Disabilities Services, Downtown Athletic Club (Pittsburgh, PA), Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Manheim Township Education Foundation, Rice & Rice, ltd. Design Group, Amanda Kraft Photography, The Farfield Company • Projects include: annual reports, planned giving brochure & initial donation campaign concept, promotional brochure, DVD & CD case package, web site design & initial social media campaign, intranet site design, marketing material (from concept to printed piece), promotional package for USPL to display product samples, magazine spread and ads. Realty Select, Lancaster, PA 2004-2007 • Produced all marketing materials for agency and parent company • Coordinated print campaigns and met aggressive deadlines • Worked closely with agency owner to determine marketing niche and focus Xerox, Lancaster, PA 2003-2004 • Created Logo standards Manuals for various accounts • Developed initial website concepts Education: Art Institute of Pittsburgh Bachelor of Science, Graphic Design 2009 Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts (now the Art Institute of York) Associates in Specialized Technology/Graphic Design 2003 Design Philosophy Creative use of type in design, display type, as image and selection. Gestalt principles and design. Practical knowledge of photography, proofing,. Extensive use and knowledge of grid systems. Understanding of color theory, its psychological effects and use in design. Deliberate in conceptual thinking and processes. Knowledgeable in environmental design, including dimensional design. Production Abilities Extensive knowledge of paper stock. Experienced in pre-press process, including offset printing, and screen. Thermography. Lithography. Flat bed and drum scanning.