Joe Rinehart, IT - SEO Resume

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 December 2011 11:06 Written by Joe Rinehart, SEO Sunday, 02 September 2007 19:00

Joseph “Joe” Sheridan Rinehart 689 ST. Rt. 212 NW Bolivar, Ohio 44612-8542   Cell: 330.389.1192 Mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://www.linkedin.com/in/joerinehart http://Twitter.com/Joe_Rinehart http://www.facebook.com/JoeRinehart.SEO

Objective

Employment as an Internet Director, Internet E-commerce Director, Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) or Electronic Marketing Consultant, IT Director, System Administrator, Assistant System Administrator, Site Development Officer [webmaster], or electronic media analyst to offer system administration, Intranet, Internet management, HTML production and support.

I'm passionate and very proud about my career and know that it reflects on whatever I do in business and life!

Experience

1998 – Current Config.Com, Inc. Ravenna, OH
President and Chairman

* Contracted and manage in excess 500 commercial Internet domains, in a FreeBSD UNIX environment.
* Authored over 3,000 web pages using memorized code and several HTML editors.
* Utilize UNIX, Perl, AJAX, Java, HTML, PHP, MySql, Content Management Systems (CMS), RSS, Blogs, Web 2.0, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Email lists services, site integration.
* Established 1st facilities based Internet services (ISP) in Portage County, Ohio
* Host Delegate for TLD domain hierarchy Portage.OH.US
* Established recognized community directories for several NE Ohio including Akron.    
* Established 1st High Speed Broadband Wireless Internet Access Provider (ISP) within Portage County, Ohio
* Established Internet access services solution for the Akron Digital Academy remote learning division of the Akron Public School system in August 2004 and still currently under contract. Saving them ten's of thousands dollars annually by  giving their IT department complete control over the student accounts!
* Served as Webmaster and provided the hosting for the National Association of the Physically Handicapped from 1998 through 2004.
* Serve as Hostmaster for co.portage.oh.us and portageco.com Portage County, Ohio Governments since 1996 2002 respectively.
* Supervised various IT teams for a diverse range of projects.

A complete professional time table of achievements is available on-line at URL:
http://www.config.com/corporate/time-table.html

1988–1998 Blue Parrot BBS / Config.Sys International / config.sys Productions, LLC, Ravenna, OH

President and Chairman

* Co-founded the parent company, a pioneer in interactive media. We were at one time internationally recognized for marketing educational CD-ROM's.
* Authored the 1st commercial Internet URL ever advertised in a computer magazine (Computer Shopper – Oct ’93 through Oct ’94).
* Founded one of the oldest commercial newsgroups on the Internet (alt.cd-rom.reviews) in 1993.
* Co-founded akr.biz the third oldest commercial newsgroup in Ohio.
* Established 1st commercial web page in the State of Ohio.  (This statement is a little hard to prove these days for config.com, but archive.org & http://whois.domaintools.com/config.com is a start ;)
* Established 1st Internet Access sales agency for Portage County, Ohio residents (3/4 of the population was calling long distance)
* Established 1st Internet Access Provider (ISP) within Portage County, Ohio (When agency agreement terminated)

Associations

* Director of the Kent Economic Development Institute/Dr. Vladimir Simunek
* President, Kent State University Vietnam Veterans Association/George Urban, Adviser
* Advisory Board, Akron Institute of Technology
* Past Secretary and Treasurer, Ohio Association of Internet Service Providers (OISPA.ORG)
* SEO & Internet Adviser, The Institute of Cultural Awareness, Sedona, AZ
* Adviser, Ohio Spam Legislation committee for HB 383 sponsored by the Honorable Kathleen Welcher
* Former Director, Grandview Memorial Park, Inc., Ravenna, Ohio
* Former Director, Fairview Memorial Park, Inc., Columbus Ohio

Education

Carlisle Military Academy, Bamberg SC.

Kent State University, Kent Ohio - bachelor's degree not completed

Guest Lecturer in Nov 1994 for Dr. Shanklin's Graduate School of Marketing and participated in Small Business Administration business plan program with Dan Gabella, MBA. (Recognized by the Small Business Administration (Cleveland Region) resulting from a business plan written by Dan Gabella with assistance from the Small Business Institute at Kent State University school of business department of marketing)

Employed Professor Dr. Richard Depew, as UNIX consultant for our in-service professional development seminar series held 1-4 hours weekly from Aug 1996 through March 2001.

Professional Interests

Currently, developing multi-server UNIX applications; designing e-commerce shopping services; created nationally recognized community and hospitality campaigns. Consultant  to local school systems, governments, for Intranet and Internet applications. I'm currently working on an SEO informational site which I plan to publish when complete.

I maintain a special interest in non-profit and socially conscience projects.

Military

1974-1976. U.S.M.C. H&S Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines L/Cpl. Honorable Discharge

Client References

Alan Canfora, Kent May 4 Center, (cell upon request) http://www.May4.Org/ Kent, OH Note: Hosted 10 years, and re-designed in Feb 2010 for the 40th anniversary of the Kent State tragedy. Recognized by Vanity Fair as robust on May 4 2010. I serve as Internet Director. (Either 1st place or certainly in the top ten Google SERPs for multiple search strings including "May 4 1970", "Kent State", "Kent State University", "Ohio National Guard", and many other "Kent State tragedy" related strings.

Brian Kelley, Portage County Ohio Government, (cell upon request) Ravenna, Ohio - Managed the Domain Name Service (DNS Host Delegate for portage.oh.us) and made myself available to otherwise assist or consult with several of the County's Internet services (email for several years, and several departments) and questions since 1996.

Mario M. Milano, Plateau Pictures, Hollywood CA - Rio De Janiro, Brazil (cell upon request) http://www.plateaupictures.com/ Note: I've served as an SEO and Internet consultant on several of Mario's sites.

Buddy Hooper, OrangeBee Private Monetary System, (cell upon request) http://www.OrangeBee.com I've serve as Internet and IT consultant for several years.

Dr. Joe Gadd, Aurora, Ohio (cell upon request) - I've served as his IT consultant for several years.

John McFarland, Ravenna, Ohio 330.297.9596 - Internet consultant since 1996 and peer since 1999.

Public Relations Damage Control - Reverse SEO

Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 16:29 Written by Joe Rinehart, SEO Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:06

Public Relations Damage Control - Reverse SEO

I've been helping e-commerce clients with their Search Engine Optimization since the early days of Yahoo. As the years have past we've (config.com) been receiving more frequent emails and telephone calls regarding how to repair public relations damage by a competitor, disgruntled client, former employee, or to get a web page with undesired information out of the search engines which may show up highly on the engines, and most often, specifically Google....

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My career history

Last Updated on Monday, 17 May 2010 17:04 Written by Joe Rinehart, SEO Monday, 03 October 1994 19:00

 

Welcome to the Joe page!

I'm Joe Rinehart from Ravenna, Ohio. Carl Knorr who first thought of the name and I co-founded the company config.sys which later evolved into the name config.com to avoid confusion between a few other config somethings throughout the World.

This photo of me was taken by "The MusicMan" of the Buckeye Computer Club in Canton, Ohio while I was discussing "Information Technology" in 1993. I've since cut my hair to Marine corps standards.

In 1999, I helped develope a company called Config.Com, Inc.. These days I keep very busy managing and consulting on information technology and electronic publishing projects. Although, I am the President of Config.Com, Inc. for legal reasons however, I really prefer to use the title Network Administrator since several others enjoy helping within our corporate environment.

If you are interested in more personal information about me you will find it on my bio page.

The collection of CD-ROM reviews that first got World-wide attention which I started before the web, is no longer available or on-line. With the help from Zbigniew Tyrlik of Apk.Net we created the alt.cd-rom.reviews newsgroup, then with Ian Vershuren formerly of Apk.Net a homepage for the project in the early days of web development which was the first web page in Ohio. This is a hard thing to prove these days as even archive.org didn't exist back then, but that's OK, because there were plenty of other firsts. It was also during this era that I authored the first URL ever advertised in a computer magazine (Computer Shopper Oct 1993 - Oct 1994).

Over the years the entire early staff of Apk.Net has made contributions toward the success of the alt.cd-rom.review project! The project has received as many as 731,000 total page requests weekly. The project went off-line in Oct 1996 due to the high traffic and that we no longer sold CD-ROM titles to fund it or had sponsorship. I might point out that several larger companies started their own review programs rather than offer sponsorship funding for ours which was discouraging. Although I no longer collect CD-ROM reviews, I still monitor the alt.cd-rom.reviews newsgroup when time permits.

 

I had a lot of fun working with Dr. Brandon Ward in 1995 consulting for Child Search which lead to the placing their worthy charitable organization on the web. Dr. Ward, has since found T-3 hosting sponsorship, learned HTML and has been editing the web site with the same enthusium in which he founded the organization. These days, not much is left of the orginial site except the scanned images;^)

The Akron, Ohio Area Internet Directory was the first of several community Internet directories which I created is now also off-line since these days the yellow pages of every kind are database driven and keep current information. The Akron community directory project was recognized by Compton's on-line encylopedia, a book "It's raining cat's and sea dog's" (about minor league baseball), and in several newspaper articles.

Our Kent, Ohio Area Community directory has since become our model community directory due to access of information as a result of a high degree of support from: The Kent, Ohio Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of Kent, Ohio, Kent State University, the local school system, and of course, the citizens. Ken McGregor of the ArtArmory.com has since taken over the active management of the project which has now been online for over a decade.

Our company maintains a single guestbook of all combined projects which is always pleasant reading. Please consider contributing your public comments as well.

On June 4th 1996 config.sys Productions, Ltd. started providing Internet services in Portage County, Ohio through a sales agreement with Apk.Net. We used the Internet services resellor opportunity to further develope our cybercafe (public access) market research project and became the 1st "Public Access" high speed T-1 site in Ohio. In 1997 config.sys Productions, LLC was closed and on On December 24th, 1998, we restructured to expand our well known commercial services to include consumer dial-in services and are no longer associated with APK.net!

On July 1st 1997, one of the former principles left the company to develope his own Internet services alliance in Portage county so we restructured the company to become Config.Com, Inc. and Config.Sys Productions, LTD. was disolved legally. Ironically, the new competition (Nacs.Net) bought their bandwidth connection from Apk.Net ;^) We choose NOT to purchase our bandwidth from another ISP, but rather, wholesale direct to the Internet OC-3 backbone via full T-1. This fact in addition to the state of the art network hardware listed on our consumer dial-in access server http://home.config.com/ allow us to offer the highest quality of access possible for our Portage County, Ohio communities.

Since around July of 1997, I've been keeping busy developing the config.sys/config.com commercial internet clients and helping whomever I can get connected. Prior to July of '97 we focused on publishing community content for Northeast Ohio.

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