Justin Gengo's Résumé

S. Justin Gengo

justin@aboutfortunate.com

427 Hazel St. Oshkosh, WI 54901

(920) 426-4942 (H)

Avastone Technologies, LLC., Little Chute, WI
Senior Systems Developer, August 2009 - Present

Responsibilities

• Serve as project lead on multiple projects as well as provide advice/assistance on other projects
• Help define standards of system design and development
• Develop efficient, high-quality, re-usable, program code
• Assist with project analysis for estimating and design purposes
• Search Engine Optimization

Miles Kimball Inc., Oshkosh, WI
Web Analyst, April 2007 - August 2009

Responsibilities

• Project lead
• Analyze, design, and code new websites integrated with back-end systems
• Support existing e-commerce websites
• Identify, recommend, and prioritize new features and applications
• Assist in configuration of web and database servers
• Perform periodic website audits
• Ensure security of all websites

Achievements

• Designed a new checkout process which utilized AJAX web 2.0 technologies and reduced checkout steps from seven to two. The new process greatly reduced cart abadonment rates.
• Analyzed website performance and identified areas of improvement which when implemented reduced cpu utilization on all website servers and database servers increasing the number of requests able to be served
• Created a personalization preview application saving the company $80,000 per year
• Designed a new product update methodology replacing a system that moved product and order information only once a night (and without error handling or redundancy) with a new live system including built in error handling and redundancy

Avastone Technologies, LLC., Little Chute, WI
Senior Systems Developer, May 2006 - April 2007 

Responsibilities

• Serve as project lead on multiple projects as well as provide advice/assistance on other projects
• Help define standards of system design and development
• Develop efficient, high-quality, re-usable, program code
• Assist with project analysis for estimating and design purposes
• Search Engine Optimization

Achievements

• Project lead on a large medical application
• Upgraded the application from .NET 1.0 code to .NET 2.0 including upgrading the database from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 in order to use SQL Server Reporting Services
• Set up the application's new development, staging, and production environments - including all Windows 2003 IIS Web Servers, SQL 2005 Servers, and Reporting Services Servers
• Analyzed website performance and identified areas of improvement

F+W Publications, Inc., Iola, WI
Web Developer, March 2001 - April 2006 

Responsibilities

• Gather/Analyze requirements, create technical specifications, and program web sites, web services, and windows applications
• Tie together an infrastructure of SQL Servers, Oracle Databases, and AS400 Databases for use in company applications, internet sites, and intranet sites
• Maintain and make improvements to production applications
• Create application help files
• Research and recommend new technologies

Achievements

• Created a completely automated classified ad placement web interface which allows customers to upload and convert pictures and place classified ads in all company publications
• Created a newsletter content and archiving system for all F+W Publication's newsletters
• Created a bulk mail solution which incorporates a web service to manage bulk mail lists through a corporate firewall
• Created a survey and sweepstakes application allowing all divisions of the company to quickly create surveys/sweepstakes for public or internal polls
• Found and implemented a help solution allowing all developers to quickly create help files for all company applications

The Christian Home and Rehabilitation Center, Inc., Waupun, WI
System Analyst, June 2000 - January 2001

Responsibilities

• Create access database applications for inventory control
• Create an intranet including a document database, employee reference pages, and inventory database
• Web site design: www.christian-home.org (no longer available)
• Presentation creation (Microsoft Power Point)
• Novell Network Administration

Bergstrom Chevrolet, Buick, Jeep, Inc., Fond du Lac, WI
Financial Services Manager, August 1998 - June 2000

Responsibilities

• Obtain financing for customers, sales of credit insurance and service plans
• Monitor, maintain, and develop new plans to improve product penetration on a monthly basis
• Update, general maintenance, and troubleshooting of the Fond du Lac dealership's various computer systems and software including machines running Windows 3.x, Windows 9x and Windows NT

Achievements

• Developed an MS Excel spreadsheet application that monitors the department "automatically" which is now used at all 22 Bergstrom locations

ATI Networks, Inc., Fond du Lac, WI
Free lance web design, January 2000 - March 2000

Responsibilites

• Design and error proof the layout of ATI Networks web sites

Service Corporation International, Inc., Appleton / Oshkosh, WI
Sales Manager, Jul. 1994 - Aug. 1998

Responsibilities

• Hire, train, and retain new sales counselors and meet monthly sales quotas

Achievements

• Increased yearly sales by 150% and doubled profit
• Awarded Sales Manager of the year two years in a row (29 locations in the running)
• Replaced myself with a member of my own staff three time (the company's guidline for promotion)

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