Highly motivated, competitive and experienced leader with extensive experience in business management, administration & operations, team leadership, client services, account management, ethics, consulting, technology & online media. My indomitable spirit drives me to continuously be of the utmost service to others. I am a proud husband, father, friend, small business owner and Rotarian.

Specialties: Leadership, management, business development, brokerage, customer acquisition, sales training, business operations, project management, contract negotiation, account management, consulting, iPhone/iOS app development, e-commerce, email marketing compliance, affiliate marketing, CAN-SPAM Act, CRM, website development, HTML/CSS, photography/video, Mac OS X, Windows, Microsoft Office, Quickbooks, Adobe, ad/affiliate networks, Harvest, Basecamp, OpenX

1. Email Marketing
2. Social Media Marketing
3. E-commerce
4. Account Management
5. Website Development
6. Affiliate Marketing
7. Customer Relations
8. Contract Negotiation
9. Mac OS X
10. Customer Acquisition
11. Facebook API
12. Quickbooks
13. Windows
14. Brokerage
15. Online Marketing
16. Social Media
17. SEM
18. Digital Marketing
19. Facebook
20. Google Analytics
21. Blogging
22. Marketing Communications
23. Online Advertising
24. Web Analytics
25. HTML
26. Wordpress
27. Operations Management
28. WordPress
29. Start-ups
30. Customer Service

• Austin-Oak Hill Rotary Club

  Member
  • April 2011 to April 2012

  I'd always known that Rotary Clubs existed, but didn't know what they actually did until I had a boss who was a Rotarian. It wasn't too long after that I became a Rotarian after learning about the "Service Above Self" mantra of the club.
  
  With the Oak Hill Rotary Club I helped with general carpentry and grunt work in rehabing an old house in east Austin and helped in organizing and recruiting for a local blood drive.

• Scrubbly

  • March 2010 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek, Giorgi Dalakishvili

  Scrubbly is a desktop software application that I designed that serves the email marketing world. Scrubbly allows an emailer to import their mailing list and a suppression list (also known as an unsubscribe list) and the application will automatically scrub the lists against each other to find matching email addresses. This allows mailers to remove unsubscribes from their mailing list(s) and ensure that email marketing and CAN-SPAM compliance best practices are upheld.
  
  • Scrubbly is available for Windows and OS X
  • Automatically detects hashed (MD5 or SHA-256) suppression lists
  • Lists are scrubbed on the user's local hard drive (instead of uploading to a 3rd party service)
  • Designed so it's extremely easy for anyone to use
  • Scrubs tens of millions of lines in mere minutes

• SlimList

  • July 2011 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek, Sorin Marin

  SlimList was developed because my lovely wife wanted a simple and non-clunky grocery list app that could replace Apple's 'Notes' app. Her request: make an iPhone app that will let me check items off my list and let me import list items from various sources (recipe websites, other apps, email messages, etc.)
  
  I designed the UI and UX so SlimList makes it insanely easy to create, manage, import and cross off items on the lists that help you stay organized. This was my first iOS app and had an absolute blast working with Sorin and my wife to develop SlimList and make it available on the Apple App Store.

• PlaySPI!

  • July 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek, Sorin Marin

  PlaySPI! is an iOS app developed by Graystar Labs, a company I founded. PlaySPI! is your complete source for information on Clubs, Bars, Hotels, Shopping, Eateries & Attractions in and around South Padre Island, Texas. Users can access addresses, phone numbers, websites, e-mail, follow you on twitter, like you on facebook and check in on foursquare. Sort by distance to find the closest results or sort by relevance of your search term. View results in a list view or toggle through results on a map. Zoom and scroll features in the map feature in the map view allow users to find results in any area. Easily find the best of where to Eat, Play, Shop, Stay & Explore on South Padre! We perform monthly updates for accurate information.

• PlayMFE!

  • October 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek, Sorin Marin

  PlayMFE! was developed by Graystar Labs. PlayMFE! is your complete source for information on Clubs, Bars, Hotels, Shopping and Eateries in and around McAllen, Texas. Users can access addresses, phone numbers, websites, E-mail, follow you on twitter, like you on face book and check in on foursquare. Easily find where to Eat, Play, Shop, Stay & Explore in McAllen, Texas!

• PenTrk

  • March 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek, Sorin Marin

  PenTrk is a custom iOS app that Graystar Labs developed to handle a customer’s shipping and receiving logistics needs. It integrates web services with a Filemaker database to create, retrieve and update shipping data, scans major carrier shipping barcodes and has an integrated signature pad so recipients can input a signature using their finger or a stylus. Barcodes are translated into tracking and shipping ID numbers, and customer signatures are scanned and stored as image files - both elements employ web services to have the data pushed to the client’s online database in real time.
  
  Custom SDK integration was employed for the client to use their Linea-pro 4 barcode scanners.

• Pool Finder

  • September 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek, Sorin Marin

  Pool Finder is an iOS and Android app that employs the Google Maps API to allow pool maintenance, repair and supply companies to identify residential and commercial pool locations based on geographical location. Pool Finder allows the user to export publicly available addresses from Google Maps in a CSV format to be used for promotional direct mailings.
  
  Developed by Graystar Labs for both iOS and Android mobile phones and tablets.

• HartzVictims.org

  • November 2002 to Present
  Team Members: Josh Janicek

  HartzVictims.org is a site that I created when our cat became a victim of the lethal over-the-counter Hartz topical flea & tick drops. There weren't many resources online back in 2002, so I wanted to create the one-stop site that helps to raise awareness and provide forum where consumers and victims can find information on lethal Hartz products as well as other over-the-counter flea and tick medications.
  
  • Receives over 10,000 unique page views per month (71% organic search; 19% referrals; 9% direct)
  • Site drives revenue by targeted banners, donations, contextual ads, weekly email newsletter and Amazon aStore.

Websites:

• Blog
• Personal Website
• HartzVictims.org

Interests:

Cooking, longboarding, photography, videography, video editing, making folks laugh, gardening, woodworking, tacos