Michael Kompar_083007

Michael Kompar

Mobile: 937-660-4015 FAX: 1-866-397-6603

Email: kompar@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a Director position in IT where 10+ years of experience will add value and success to your IT department.

EXPERIENCE:

10/06 – 08/07

Hafenbrack Marketing

Director, IT Client Services

Description:

Responsible for directing all IT activities including strategy, processes, project management, scoping, quoting, staffing, and profitability. Responsible for maintaining web servers, email, internal networks, laptops and workstations.

Accomplishments:

• Increased profitability for IT jobs to over 50%.
• Completed 30 high quality projects within budget.
• Leveraged Web 2.0 applications for projects.
• Internet technologies SME.
• Nominated in 2007 for a Mercury Award for best web firm.

Internal development:

• Developed policies and procedures for scoping and quoting web projects.

• Created a development methodology based on Web Standards and code validation led to a decrease in post launch issues by at least 25%

• Deployed a web-based timekeeping solution allowing staff time entry anytime and anywhere.

• Integrated the project management and accounting systems resulting in an increase in productivity by 50%.

• Improved accuracy and efficiency in reporting and tracking of traditional and IT projects by 60%.

• Developed a network of quality outsourced IT specialists.

• Moved to an outsourced development model saving over $200,000 annually.

10/96 – 10/06

Solve Interactive Dayton, OH

Manager, Client Services

Description:

Provided sales, account management, project lead, project management, research, analysis, requirements and consultation for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Accomplishments:

• Extensive experience leading initiatives to help companies evaluate, manage and leverage their corporate data to increase revenues and uncover new business intelligence.

• Sold and managed the completion of 50+ projects totaling 1.3 million dollars, including corporate web sites, packaged implementations and custom built applications.

• Award winning projects include two International Web Page Awards, two Web Marketing Awards, and one Davey Award.

• Completed several eCommerce and integration projects totaling $400,000.

• Product Manager for Markwatch a trademark monitoring service.

Consultant and project Lead for the following notable projects:

• Sales Incentive System for a national insurance company resulting in 10% increase in company sales.

• Real Estate Appraisal Application and integration resulting in a 30% increase in productivity and increased order through-put by 60%.

• Product Recall System for an international juvenile furniture manufacturer resulting in a gain of 20% in efficiency.

• PowerPoint Presentation Builder to automate and enforce messaging for national sales team. Resulted in a web based system that greatly reduced staff time and enforced “on target” messaging.

• Trademark Monitoring and Workflow Application to automate tracking trademark violations worldwide on the Internet. The result was a 70% decrease in manual labor associated with these tasks.

Industries: Associations, Automotive, Communications, Construction, Consulting, Distribution, Education, Insurance, Manufacturing, Non-Profit, Printing, Publishing, Real Estate, Retail, Service, and Utility.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

I have an above average proficiency with the following tools and systems:

Office: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio, Project) and Open Office

Development: vi, HomeSite, Macromedia Flash, Gimp, PhotoShop, Perl, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, SVG, XML, Web Services, SOAP/XMLP, and XML Schema

APIs: Google, eBay, Channel Advisor and Map24

Application Servers: Web Sphere, Zope, and J2EE

Web 2.0: Wikipedia, Google Apps, Gmail, LinkedIN, JotSpot Wiki, NetVibes, BaseCamp, Freshbooks, EventWax, JotForm, Squidoo, Meetup, Facebook, WordPress, RSS, Podcasting and Semantic Web

Languages Used: Perl, Shell Scripting, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, C#, VB.NET, JSP and Java

CRM: SugarCRM, Salesforce.com and ACT

CMS: Custom, MS SharePoint Team Services, DotNetNuke, Mambo, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal and Open CMS

Project Management: Custom, MS Project, OpenProject, BaseCamp and dotProject

eCommerce: OsCommerce, MS BCentral, Elastic Path, Virtumart, GoEcart, MOM, MIVA and PageDNA

Database: SQL Designer, DB2, MS SQL 2003, Sybase and MySQL

ERP/MRP/Integration: Ariba, Unisys Mainframe, Baan, MAS 90, TMM, iMIS and Activant

Accounting: Quickbooks, Freshbooks and eQuantum

OS: Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris), Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, Slackware, Debian, and Suse), Windows (XP/Server)

Web Servers: Apache 2, TomCat and MS IIS

Network: (TCP/IP, DHCP, NFS, SSHD, Remote X, VNC, Remote Desktop, Terminal Server, Samba, Sendmail, Postfix and Plesk)

EDUCATION:

1992-1996 Cedarville College Cedarville, OH

2004-2005 Sinclair Community College Dayton, OH

2005-2006 Cedarville University Cedarville, OH

Four years. Major in Broadcast Production and minor in Communications. In the process of completing coursework to obtain BA from Cedarville University by Summer 08’.

COMMUNITY / OTHER:

Founder, Dayton Web Standards Meetup

Founder, Dayton IT Community Squidoo

Member, Dayton .NET Developers Group

Member, Dayton IT Alliance

My Blog: http://kompar.wordpress.com

Bass player for the Catholic contemporary band Romans

Homeschooling family of six children