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

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.

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